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Oct 3, 2013 · It’s a modern suburban variation of that iconic final image of John Wayne in the doorway at the end of The Searchers, a spirit doomed to wander forever between the winds.
- Matt Zoller Seitz
- Features Writer
Nov 20, 2023 · Kaufman, now 87, partly blames the press’ fixation on just one of the many characters, John Glenn (played by Ed Harris), a former astronaut who had gone on to become the senior Democratic senator...
- Matt Zoller Seitz
- Features Writer
Apr 8, 2024 · One is “The Shootist,” starring John Wayne as a terminally ill gunfighter who wants to go out peacefully but gets pulled into one last bloody showdown anyway. The other, as it turns out, was “Taxi Driver,” the very film that “Unforgiven” reminded me of when I saw it way back in ’92.
Dec 17, 2009 · To Binx Bolling's images of Orson Welles in the doorway and John Wayne in the street, let's add the ones cited above, plus more culled from a decade's worth of great sensualist filmmaking: the...
- Matt Zoller Seitz
May 25, 2018 · Matt Zoller Seitz breaks down the famous slow globe finale of St. Elsewhere, which he sees as a meta-commentary on the universe of TV generally, one that resonates more strongly now than it...
- Matt Zoller Seitz
- Features Writer
Nov 22, 2023 · At Vulture, Matt Zoller Seitz talks with Philip Kaufman about The Right Stuff (also 1983), which the director describes as “probably the longest film ever made without a plot.”
Dec 22, 2015 · The Hateful Eight. Western. 168 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2015. Matt Zoller Seitz. December 22, 2015. 9 min read. Quentin Tarantino’s ultraviolent, ultra-talky sorta-Western “The Hateful Eight” is an impressive display of film craft and a profoundly ugly movie—so gleeful in its violence and so nihilistic in its world view that it feels as ...
