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	Marty at the Movies	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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A Sad Farewell: I will be terminating this column on January 28. Due to difficulties in maintaining updated reviews and for personal issues I will be ending a fond 40 years of film critiquing in newspapers and my website. I thank the many loyal readers I have known. If you so desire, you can e-mail me at filmscritic415@hotmail.com, using MARTYWEB as your subject so I don’t delete you as junk. Good fortune and good films to you. 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.   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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