With J.J. Abrams' reboot of the Star Trek franchise about to hit theaters, critic and new L video essayist Matt Zoller Seitz muses on the appeal of Mr. Spock, the duality of man, all that stuff:
Brooklyn-based filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz is a former film critic for The New York Times and New York Press, the founder of the website The House Next Door, and a contributor to Moving Image Source.
In this video essay, the entire year in cinema (or 50 parts of it, anyway) is distilled into 11 minutes, less a year-in-review clip party than a single uber-movie.
Our latest video essay is a tribute to the undervalued art of costume design, and the somewhat less undervalued art of the heinous 70s necktie, brought together definitively in David Fincher's contemporary masterwork.