Trick or Treat? In this video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz for The L Magazine, we approach the most iconic locations in horror films: old dark houses, vancant motels...
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Trick or Treat? In this video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz for The L Magazine, we approach the most iconic locations in horror films: old dark houses, vancant motels, mansions on hills, bell towers, torture chambers and spaceships. Enter at your own risk.
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Rock and Roll High ...
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Ten years ago, NBC premiered (and subsequently dumped) the most important high school TV show of our time. In this video essay for The L Magazine, Matt Zoller Seit...
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Ten years ago, NBC premiered (and subsequently dumped) the most important high school TV show of our time. In this video essay for The L Magazine, Matt Zoller Seitz leafs through our old yearbook and remember the spot-on pop culture references, honestly and cringe-worthy adolescent embarrassment, and upwardly mobile cast and crew.
The End
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With apologies to Susan Sontag, this video essay examines the imagination of disaster, from gaping to fleeing to the deployment of the military to the bandaging of...
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With apologies to Susan Sontag, this video essay examines the imagination of disaster, from gaping to fleeing to the deployment of the military to the bandaging of wounds to the woozy walk through the rubble, in films from Japanese monster flicks to 50s sci-fi and modern blockbusters. By Matt Zoller Seitz and Richard Seitz.
A Tale of Two Summe...
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Part four of The L Magazine's five-part series continues to trace the evolution of the modern blockbuster through the summer movies of '84 and '89. This segment fe...
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Part four of The L Magazine's five-part series continues to trace the evolution of the modern blockbuster through the summer movies of '84 and '89. This segment features feel-good sequels aping the spirit of '84 while the heroes of Lethal Weapon II and The Abyss flip out, and the unprecedented Batman taps into the decayed American city.
A Tale of Two Summe...
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Part three of The L Magazine's five-part series continues to trace the evolution of the modern blockbuster through the summer movies of '84 and '89. This segment f...
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Part three of The L Magazine's five-part series continues to trace the evolution of the modern blockbuster through the summer movies of '84 and '89. This segment features
A Tale of Two Summe...
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Part two of The L Magazine's five-part series continues to trace the evolution of the modern blockbuster through the summer movies of '84 and '89. This segment fea...
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Part two of The L Magazine's five-part series continues to trace the evolution of the modern blockbuster through the summer movies of '84 and '89. This segment features Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Dreamscape, Red Dawn, Gremlins, the society of the spectacle, and the PG-13 rating.
A Tale of Two Summe...
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The L Magazine's five-part series continues to trace the evolution of the modern blockbuster through the summer movies of '84 and '89.
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The L Magazine's five-part series continues to trace the evolution of the modern blockbuster through the summer movies of '84 and '89.
Quentin Tarantino: ...
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Looking at QT by listening to his copious, exacting dialogue: A study of verbal sparrings, reframings, clarifications, and all the other ways his characters use wo...
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Looking at QT by listening to his copious, exacting dialogue: A study of verbal sparrings, reframings, clarifications, and all the other ways his characters use words to get on top of one another. An L Magazine video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz and Keith Uhlich.
Bad Seeds: Creepy K...
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A history of creeeepy children in the movies, from The Bad Seed and The Innocents, to The Exorcist and The Omen, to Joshua and Orphan. An L Magazine video essay by...
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A history of creeeepy children in the movies, from The Bad Seed and The Innocents, to The Exorcist and The Omen, to Joshua and Orphan. An L Magazine video essay by Nicolas Rapold and Matt Zoller Seitz.
In a Lonely Place
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Doomed love, noir fatalism and Humphrey Bogart's best performance in Nicholas Ray's 1950 masterpiece. A video essay by Kim Morgan and Matt Zoller Seitz, for The L ...
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Doomed love, noir fatalism and Humphrey Bogart's best performance in Nicholas Ray's 1950 masterpiece. A video essay by Kim Morgan and Matt Zoller Seitz, for The L Magazine.
Right Hand/Left Han...
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On the twentieth anniversary of its release, a look at the high tension and human understanding of Spike's American masterpiece. A video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz...
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On the twentieth anniversary of its release, a look at the high tension and human understanding of Spike's American masterpiece. A video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz for The L Magazine.
