To Live, the latest historical melodrama from Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, isn't anything like the film I'd been led to anticipate--and that's... More>>
There's nobody in American movies like Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-Fat. Best known stateside as the stoic center of John Woo's most dizzying... More>>
AUSTIN--Early into Before Sunrise, as Jesse (the traveling American played by Ethan Hawke) and Celine (the French student, portrayed by Julie... More>>
Krzysztof Kieslowski's Red is a haunting and mysterious conclusion to his trilogy
By Matt Zoller Seitz,
January 19, 1995
For several years now, I've wondered if I simply didn't get the movies of Krzysztof Kieslowski, the Polish filmmaker who specializes in fare so... More>>
John Singleton's college melodrama Higher Learning is a baffling misfire
By Matt Zoller Seitz,
January 12, 1995
Writer-director John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood was a triumph of intimate storytelling--an African-American melodrama set in a bullet-riddled... More>>
From a year full of startling and memorable movies, here are our favorites
By Matt Zoller Seitz and Jimmy Fowler,
January 12, 1995
Matt Zoller Seitz
When H.L. Mencken wrote that criticism is prejudice made plausible, he was onto something. Like music, movies are more often... More>>
Pauline Kael's For Keeps is a diary of a strange and passionate affair with movies
By Matt Zoller Seitz,
January 05, 1995
"A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre," writes legendary film... More>>
The flawed but passionate Immortal Beloved brings us inside the mind of an artist
By Matt Zoller Seitz,
January 05, 1995
In the middle of the public premiere of Ludwig Van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, "Ode to Joy," the elderly, decrepit, bitter composer leaves his... More>>
Little Women is an old-fashioned movie in the very best sense
By Matt Zoller Seitz,
December 22, 1994
Gillian Armstrong, the director of Little Women, isn't a daring, kinetic film artist like Martin Scorsese or Peter Jackson or Jane Campion. She's... More>>
Robert Altman's surprisingly leaden look at the fashion industry is all dressed up with nowhere to go
By Matt Zoller Seitz,
December 22, 1994
It's quite a compliment to say that an artist's failures are more interesting than most of his colleagues' successes. The description certainly... More>>
The Fire Chief of New York City keeps trying to get permission to rip down all the fire-alarm boxes on the street--let people just dial 911 if... More>>
The best way to describe Jodie Foster's singular brand of beauty is bird-like--large eyes, sharp nose, a concentrated mouth, a tiny frame. She... More>>
New book by Denton academic traces origins of the Hollywood blockbuster
By Matt Zoller Seitz,
December 15, 1994
When fans of old Hollywood complain that modern feature films are too darned commercial--that they've lost the personality and passion that made... More>>
