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10 Years, 138 Movies, 29 Minutes: Part 1

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:53:08 -0500

It’s the end, the end of the aughties—time for a clip party! Matt Zoller Seitz's latest L Magazine video essay looks back at the decade in movies. Part One covers 2000-2004.

10 Years, 138 Movies, 29 Minutes: Part Two

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:41:51 -0500

The second half of Matt Zoller Seitz and The L Magazine’s end-of-the-aughties clip party covers 2005-2009 in cinema.

Clean Up Bhopal!

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:19:50 -0500

Twenty-five years after the Bhopal gas incident, students protest Dow Chemical’s refusal to accept responsibility for the continual fallout resulting from water contamination.Camera, direction and editing by Emmanuel Cruz.

Rock and Roll High School: Freaks and Geeks

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:31:05 -0400

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.

Unreal Estate

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:53:26 -0400

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.

Urban Fable: The Message(s) of On the Waterfront

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:38:45 -0400

Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront is often dismissed as the self-justification of a men who named names during the Red Scare. But in this L Magazine video essay, Matt Zoller Seitz wonders if it's really that simple.

The End

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:37:14 -0400

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.

Cult of Michael Jackson

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:29:14 -0400

September 11, 2009The opening reception of the eclectic Rusel Parish’s "Cult of Michael Jackson" exhibit at Figureworks.Camera, direction, editing by Emmanuel Cruz.

Whip It Cover Wrap Promotion

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:22:53 -0400

Cover Wrap promotion for Whip It with The L Magazine

Trends You Hate

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:48:18 -0400

In New York, fashion is a statement. Not all statements are universal.Interviews by Loret Gamboa.Camera, direction and editing by Emmanuel Cruz.

K&K Gallery

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:33:37 -0500

Keeping art local, the Brooklyn way.Camera, direction nd editing by Emmanuel Cruz.

Algernon Cadwallader - Spit Fountain

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:43:20 -0400

@ Stolen Sleeves Collective 9/20/09 Shot by Emmanuel Cruz.