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martymoviereviews.com Marty Meltz
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Welcome to the BIG CONVERSION OF THIS WEB SITE!
For reasons cited below, instead of reviews of new
releases I’ll now be celebrating new DVD rentals and
HARDLY KNOWN fun and fascinating films
of my nearly 40 YEARS of reviewing.
Thank you for your visit! |
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1990 - 2008 |
1980's |
1970's
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I’m the former
39-year newspaper-published films
critic, 30 of those years with the New
England Award-winning Maine Sunday
Telegram, plus two more years on this
website, having seen over 5000 new
broad-release movies since 1972.
But I’ve relocated, for the near future,
to a remote cabin home in Maine. It is
beyond access to mainstream cinemas and
movie viewings. Therefore I’ve elected,
for now, in this my 39th year in
professional film reviewing, to change
my coverage from new broad releases to
NEW DVD RENTAL RELEASES and BRIEF
REVIEWS OF FASCINATING FIRST-RATE MOVIES
SINCE 1972 which, because of low
publicity budgets, were hardly ever
heard of. |
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Marty's Criteria
What makes a film quality entertainment?
A good story? Uh,
uh. No more so than you care about the
reply when you’re introduced to a new
person and you ask, “What do you do?” In
a minute you realize that really what
you’re looking for in a new person is an
appealing personality. So, in a film,
you’re really looking for its
“personality,” communication at your
deep, meaningful levels of
consciousness. In a well-designed movie
that means
integrated action,
suspense, acting from the inside and
settings artistry.
At the
deeper levels of mind and spirit, we
respond to the audio and visual energy
of smart dynamic film technique and
atmosphere, whether fast-paced or
deliberative --
DELIVERY!
If it all works for you, you’ve got
something to take away! It was
entertaining. You have grown.
I’ll tell you about the plot, of course,
and in the way I tell it, you’ll sense
my estimate of the film. |
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Will I return again to
regular weekly film reviews of new
mainstream broad releases? Hard to say,
a real possibility since I’ve loved
doing it. Meantime, with my preliminary
research into 1970s through 2008 films
which are indelible in my memory for
their strong entertainment value while
getting little publicity at the time,
I’m more and more enthused about telling
you about them. Also, of course, I’ll
review DVDs of recent films, these both
good and bad. |
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© 2010, Marty Meltz |
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