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Remembering Jan Dawson, My Mother-in-Law (Twice)

3 days ago | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

Ours is an extended family with a lot of tragedy in it, but Jan Dawson's was unique. Jan was the mother of two daughters, Jen, the mother of my two biological children, and Nancy, who had three children by a previous marriage. I was married to both of the sisters at different points in my life. They both died young-Jennifer at 35 of a previously undiagnosed heart problem, and Nancy at 53 of metastatic breast cancer. They passed on the same day, fourteen years and just a few minutes apart.
He Communicated with Forces that Were Not in the Norm: Oliver Stone on Directing Val Kilmer

1 month ago | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

Val Kilmer died last week of pneumonia after a long struggle against the cancer that took his voice. He left behind an extraordinary body of work and a reputation for being a difficult, sometimes volatile performer. Kilmer attempted to address both facets of the legend in "Val," a documentary-apologia that sanded off a few of the actor's rough edges but shone a spotlight on others. Writer-director Oliver Stone might have been the director who was most on Kilmer's wavelength.
SXSW Film Festival 2025: Fu*cktoys, $Positions, Idiotka

1 month ago | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

Annapurna Sriram's feature debut "Fu*cktoys," about a sex worker earning a living while undoing a curse, is farce, psychodrama, theological inquiry, softcore, satire, and tragedy, all at the same time. And in an era when nearly everyone has gone digital, it's been shot on 16mm color film by Cory Fraiman-Lott (another name film buffs should write down), cropped to CinemaScope dimensions, then seemingly pushed in developing so the colors seem to explode.
Steven Soderbergh Has a Secret Ingredient

1 month ago | vulture.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

People are ultimately unknowable — even your spouse. The director’s new film Black Bag is all about trust.
SXSW Film Festival 2025: One More Shot, Mermaid, Sweetness

2 months ago | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

A lot of films have tried to do their own version of the plot of 1993's " Groundhog Day," the first Hollywood feature that combined videogame-play rules (the hero is stuck in a time loop, and if the clock runs out or he dies, he starts over) with earnest fantasies of self-improvement (he learns from his mistakes and carries that knowledge into the next go-round).
Red Meat: Steak 'n Shake Goes Nazi

2 months ago | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

"Steak 'n Shake has gone Nazi" isn't a sentence I ever expected to see, much less type. But here we are. On Friday, the social media account of the fast-food chain Steak 'n Shake published a series of fascist-pandering posts on X (formerly Twitter), then deleted them after public admonishment by everyone who wasn't a Nazi.
Houston's River Oaks Theatre Gets a Second Act

2 months ago | texashighways.com | Matt Zoller Seitz |Tyson Bird

Houston’s River Oaks Theatre opened in 1939, and over the next 75 years the elegant art deco movie house passed through as many hands as an artifact in an Indiana Jones picture. Its penultimate owner, Landmark Cinemas, turned it into an art house and repertory venue that occasionally screened controversial films including Pier Paolo Pasolini’s X-rated Marquis de Sade adaptation Salo, which prompted Houston police to charge the manager with violating obscenity laws.
Gene Hackman (1930-2025) Had Absolute Power

2 months ago | vulture.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

An actor who barely changed his look but constantly transformed himself. Hackman on the set of A Bridge Too Far in 1976. Hackman on the set of A Bridge Too Far in 1976. Gene Hackman was a virtuoso of the smile. When the corners of his mouth curled up, this split-second pause before the unveiling told you something thrilling was about to happen, but he was so inventive that you never knew quite what.
30 Minutes On: "Watership Down"

2 months ago | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

"Watership Down," Martin Rosen's 1978 adaptation of Richard Adams' novel about rabbits traveling the English countryside to find a new homeland after their warren is marked for destruction, has been a constant in my life since I first saw it as a child. And it has become an increased source of comfort as I've grown older. Recently my wife Judith, who admires the film as much as I do, has taken to calling it up on the Max platform at night as visual comfort food while going to sleep.
Life, the Movie: Why Documentary Filmmaking Should Return to, You Know, Documenting Stuff

Feb 7, 2025 | rogerebert.com | Matt Zoller Seitz

I was watching a documentary the other night-I'm not going to say which one here, because it was good and intelligent overall, and the filmmakers might be reading this-and got annoyed immediately because it was steeped in the same storytelling cliches as so many other documentaries made nowadays.

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