I mean real cinephilia, which is endlessly curious and always on the search for the next innovation, the next curveball, the next epiphany. ❋ Karina Longworth (2011)
Not to discount some of the headier fare on the roster, but this annual mini-festival is a surefire anecdote to stiff-collar cinephilia. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)
It is the largest moviegoing event of the year in a city where cinephilia is an epidemic. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)
Reprising a healthy number of New York Film Festival selections, as well as premieres of new entertainments like the Duplass brothers' "Jeff, Who Lives at Home" and the Johnny Depp vehicle "The Rum Diary," the 19th annual edition of this Long Island festival brings cinephilia to the suburbs. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)
Protests en masse While cinephilia seems to be hardwired into the French DNA, so does the act of taking to the boulevards to express dissatisfaction. ❋ Lennox Morrison (2010)
In what ways have these technologies brought cinephilia new life? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Since its launch in 2008, ATP New York has partnered with the Criterion Collection, the DVD company that has made passionate cinephilia and deluxe packaging its signature. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"On the one hand, there is cinephilia as a conceptual mode of pleasure, and on the other, is thinking of cinephilia as a particular historical moment and/or cultural movement (think only most recently, Rosenbaum and Martin's Movie Mutations, and - I would add - the blogosphere)." ❋ Unknown (2007)
"[T] he rise of video, and subsequently DVD, has decisively tipped cinephilia into the realm of possession as opposed to experience." ❋ Unknown (2007)
Dourly withholding as it may be, Regular Lovers is superior in every sense — not least in its near-complete absence of cinephilia. ❋ Unknown (2007)
With Netflix, pirating, and home theaters cinephilia is bigger than ever. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
Another way to ask the question is: Why did we ever have cinephilia in the first place? ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
Two cinephilia-focused documentaries, Comrades in Dreams and VHS - Kahloucha are far more light-hearted, but they claim another brand of richness: richness of character. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A high-minded oasis of cinephilia that concluded a terrific 24th edition last month, the Torino Film Festival balances a rigorous program of new work with heroic, encyclopedic retrospectives. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"Film Forum is currently presenting two movies to repair the damaged state of cinephilia - Bergman Island about Ingmar Bergman and My Dad is 100 Years Old, celebrating the centenary of Roberto Rossellini," notes Armond White in the New York Press. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"If I put much stock in the death-of-cinema proclamations that have been making the rounds these past few years, I might view this as a heartening resurgence of a supposedly moribund form of cinephilia, of a celluloid-obsessed passion that a good number of writers (doing their best Hemingway-era Gertrude Stein by way of Marx-era Margaret Dumont) would have us believe fizzled out with the very counterculture that Rivette chronicles in Out 1." ❋ Unknown (2006)
Though I hated it in my early years of cinephilia and only gave it a begrudging two star review during it's brief theatrical re-release last year, I have since become something of a fan of Dirty Dancing. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For the first several decades of my cinephilia there was no internet. ❋ Arbogast (2008)
The theater might not have the bells and whistles most of us are used to -- stadium seating, surround sound, cupholders, consistent air-conditioning -- but what the New Beverly lacks in décor it makes up for in pure cinephilia. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Harry Tuttle offers another "anti-canon, an alternative breech into offbeat cinema territories, the favorite milestones from my subjective journey through cinephilia." ❋ Unknown (2006)
