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Dennis Schwartz

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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.

Critics' Group:
Location:

Bennington, Vermont

Official Website:

http://dennisschwartzreviews.com/

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon: Season 1 (2024) 95% B+ EDIT “It's a solid film on the creative life of one of our greatest singers, guitarists, composers, who created albums such as Sounds of Silence and Bridge Over Troubled Waters.” – Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Mar 7, 2024 Full Review A+ EDIT “Brilliant and moving, a masterpiece about the fragility of human nature.” – Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews May 13, 2021 Full Review A+ EDIT “Brilliant and moving, a masterpiece about the fragility of human nature.” – Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews May 13, 2021 Full Review The Queen's Gambit: Season 1 (2020) 96% B= EDIT “A compelling coming-of-age story that also explores how substance abuse has become such a killer in western society.” – Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Nov 20, 2020 Full Review Berlin Alexanderplatz: Season 1 94% A+ EDIT “It's the crowning achievement for the prolific filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.” – Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Aug 19, 2020 Full Review World on a Wire: Season 1 (1973) 98% A EDIT “This is Fassbinder at the top of his game.” – Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Aug 19, 2020 Full Review B+ EDIT “Brilliant and moving, a masterpiece about the fragility of human nature.” – Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Apr 3, 2017 Full Review
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