Email Author Matt Zoller Seitz

1994 Stories by Matt Zoller Seitz

• Little Women, Big Film

  published December 29, 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 >>

• Low Fashion

  published December 22, 1994

  It's quite a compliment to say that an artist's failures are more interesting than most of his colleagues' successes. That description certainly... More >>

• Love and Bore

  published December 15, 1994

  There are two kinds of bad movies: actively bad and passively bad. An actively bad one can prove perversely enjoyable. You sit there gazing up at... More >>

• Do More Cuts Mean Less Shoots?

  published December 15, 1994

  Houston filmmaker Eagle Pennell has done pretty well for himself in recent years. Working as an independent, he's managed to complete three films... More >>

• A Brilliant Red

  published December 8, 1994

  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 >>

• Hot and Bothersome

  published December 8, 1994

  Adapted from Michael Crichton's bestseller about sexual harassment and office intrigue in a high tech Seattle computer company, Disclosure is a... More >>

• Friends and Fantasy

  published December 1, 1994

  Peter Jackson might be the boldest English-language director working today -- or at least the boldest whose films are seen by almost no one. His... More >>

• Cyberdreams

  published December 1, 1994

  One hot day during the summer of 1992, David Rains wondered exactly what the hell he was doing driving back and forth every weekend from his home... More >>

• Hollow Points

  published November 24, 1994

  The Professional, the English-language debut of acclaimed French thriller director Luc Besson, is an old chestnut with a shiny new high tech... More >>