Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz

""Wisdom is not in knowing but in having known." - Edmond Jabés, "

Agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

Biography:
Dennis Schwartz is editor of the Vermont based film magazine "Ozus's World Movie Reviews." He has been a prolific online movie reviewer since 1998, also contributing to various publications all over the globe and maintaining an active website--where it's not uncommon for him to review as many as 365 films a year. In his other life, he was a poet, teacher, restaurant owner, wanderer and follower of Tibetan Buddhism (where he studied in Kasa, Devi, India).The first film he saw as a child, Bob Hope's Paleface, left a hunger for films that has not been sated with all the passing years. The critic who influenced him the most was Walter Benjamin, not a film critic but one of the truly great scholarly critics of the 20th century. The lesson the film critic learned from Benjamin is that all true art is subversive and unsettling.
Favorites:
Movie favorites (in no particular order): Dead Man/Beau Travail/Eyes Wide Shut/2001: A Space Odyssey/The Searchers/Dybbuk/Greed/Touch of Evil/The Passion of Joan of Arc/Eyes Without A Face.
Publications:
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Critics' Group:
Online Film Critics Society
Total Reviews:
8957
Location:
Bennington, Vermont

Best Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
A 97% Dumbo (1941) " A Disney animation classic for all ages and all times." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 31, 2013
A —— Ukigumo (Floating Clouds) (1955) " The lights-out melodrama might be the master filmmaker's best film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 19, 2013
A 94% Nothing But a Man (1963) " One of the best black films ever made." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 10, 2013
A 100% Zangiku monogatari (The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums) (1979) " Ranks as one of the greatest Japanese films." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 2, 2013
A 86% Tabu (2012) " The art-house film transcends some absurd moments and leaves us with a lyrical and magically satisfying romantic adventure story that is both eccentric and sublime." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 5, 2013
A —— Appointment In Bray (Rendez-vous à Bray) () " A great film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 2, 2013
A —— One Night... A Train (un Soir, Un Train) () " It's a strange and incomprehensible film, that reminds one of a Kafka novel." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 2, 2013
A —— De Man die zijn haar kort liet knippen (1966) " As good a study of man's restless and abnormal nature that I have ever encountered in movies." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted May 29, 2013
A 100% The Last Command (1928) " Brilliant silent." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted May 8, 2013
A 89% A Screaming Man (2011) " Engrossing arty melodrama that brilliantly blends together a tragic political and psychological story set in modern-day Chad." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted May 5, 2013
A+ 98% The Last Waltz (2002) " It might be the best concert film of all time." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 18, 2013
A 86% River's Edge (1987) " A powerful sociological film on white teenage alienation in small-town America, that is even more amazing that it's based on an actual event." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 16, 2013
A 100% White Nights (Le Notti Bianche) (1961) " My favorite Visconti film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Apr 12, 2013
A+ —— India: Matri Bhumi (1959) " It was one of the director's favorites and the film of his I liked best." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 27, 2013
A 100% The Wages of Fear (1953) " Anti-capitalist exciting existential adventure film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 25, 2013
A 100% Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) " A better submarine film has not been made." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 24, 2013
A+ —— Saga of Anatahan (1954) " It's a corker." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 21, 2013
A 91% Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) " Brilliantly simple lyrical film was shot on location in Tahiti." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 19, 2013
A 89% Breaking In (1989) " Delightfully charming low-key funny mismatched buddy crime caper pic." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 9, 2013
A 92% L' Âge d'Or (Age of Gold) (The Golden Age) (1979) " It relentlessly attacks the mores of society." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 7, 2013
A —— La Pointe-Courte (1954) " The sublime depiction of a marriage on the rocks is skilfully presented in an innovative way against the daily life of the small Mediterranean fishing village." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 6, 2013
A+ —— Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach) (1968) " I can't think of a musical biopic I liked better." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 5, 2013
A —— Dolce (1999) " Haunting portrait of Miho Shimao, widow of the celebrated Japanese writer Toshio Shimao Dolce (1917-1986)." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 5, 2013
A —— Sonata for Viola (Dmitri Schostakowitsch Altowaja Sonata) (2005) " A deeply moving and reverent biopic of Soviet composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 5, 2013
A+ 100% Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia) (Strangers) (The Lonely Woman) (1954) " Roberto Rossellini's finest film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 5, 2013
A —— Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons (Jeanne la Pucelle II - Les prisons) (2005) " An original political response to Joan's plight." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Mar 4, 2013
A —— Lola (1961) " Pleasantly conceived romantic roundelay." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 26, 2013
A —— Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome () " So arty, so weird, so magical, so trippy and so gay." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 23, 2013
A+ —— Lovers of Teruel () " Arguably the best ballet film ever." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 16, 2013
A 86% Haebyonui Yoin (Woman on the Beach) (2008) " Addresses in a serious/comical undertone something dearly personal and subtle the director has to say that's worth paying attention to." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Feb 3, 2013
A 91% Holy Motors (2012) " It's an absurd, unsafe, inexplicable and unpredictable fantasy... ." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 2, 2013
A 100% The Sorcerers (1967) " A gem that has gone under the radar and deserves more attention." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2013
A —— Science is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé () " Offers you all you might ask for in a nature film." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 22, 2012
A 100% The Shop Around the Corner (1940) " Wonderful period low-budget light romantic comedy taking place during the Depression among a few underpaid neurotics surviving in the workforce of a small notions store." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Dec 19, 2012
A 93% Room 237 (2013) " Astonishing playful and idiosyncratic cult film documentary by LA filmmaker Rodney Ascher." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Nov 29, 2012
A 94% The Day He Arrives (2012) " Off-beat romcom." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Nov 24, 2012
A+ 78% Lonesome (1928) " It's perhaps the ultimate film in urban alienation." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Nov 5, 2012
A 68% Night of the Living Dead (2000) " A doozie." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 29, 2012
A 85% The Master (2012) " From a director at the peak of his power, who is willing to take on serious topics and do it in a uniquely intelligent way. " — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 29, 2012
A 100% Wake in Fright (2012) " A neglected gem." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Oct 21, 2012
A 96% I'm Going Home (2001) " An understated film that touches on greatness." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 28, 2012
A 100% A Brighter Summer Day (2011) " Masterly done four-hour loosely based autobiographical film of the late Taiwan filmmaker Edward Yang." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 27, 2012
A —— Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma () " The application is intense, and the film never stands still long enough to get dry." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 20, 2012
A 97% Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) (1945) " It's almost flawlessly filmed, though it at times lacks warmth." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Aug 20, 2012
A+ 94% Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2012) " It's a masterpiece crime story that tells us as much about searching for the truth in modern Turkey as it does about violent criminals and those who prosecute them." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 14, 2012
A 87% Bullhead (2012) " A ferocious crime thriller that grabbed my attention and held my interest throughout." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jul 13, 2012
A 71% My Reincarnation (2011) " Amazing documentary that chronicles the story of the Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 24, 2012
A 100% Partie de Campagne (A Day in the Country) (1936) " Plays out delightfully as an impressionist picture that sings out to us the sensuous nature of the country." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted Jun 12, 2012
A 100% Wuthering Heights (1939) " This is a first-class Hollywood production." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted May 27, 2012
A 83% Ganja & Hess (Black Vampire) (1973) " A forgotten masterpiece." — Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Posted May 25, 2012
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