A really nice interview with critic Matt Zoller Seitz who also heads up the fantastic blog House Next Door, which I write for as well. I was lucky enough to meet Matt – we went to a press screening of There Will Be Blood together and then went to a diner and talked for three hours. It was one of those moments where I realized: man. Blogging has changed my life. I do not know this man – this is the first time I am meeting him – but we have none of that social awkwardness, because we have been reading each other for a couple years now, and so all that preliminary stuff is out of the way and we can just get to it. I wrote a bit about that particular bloggers-meeting-phenomenon here.
Matt is a fantastic writer – I can’t pick out my favorites (but many of his personal favorites that he lists in the interview are my own) – although I will say that his re-cap of the controversial finale of The Sopranos is magnificent – so it’s nice to see him interviewed. He’s one of the ones who really gets the confluence of regular media and blogging, especially when it comes to film criticism.
