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- adjective Having a love of
films or thecinema .
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Examples
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" Shoah, " of course, exerts a pull beyond cinephilic appreciation.
A New Life for the Long Movie Nicolas Rapold 2010
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The festival is as much attention as Pabst has gotten of late, ever since Quentin Tarantino's multiple shout-outs to the director in his 2009 cinephilic rewriting of history, Inglourious Basterds.
Thomas Gladysz: G.W. Pabst: A Film Director for All Seasons 2010
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Haskell inscribes Frankly, My Dear with psychoanalytic insight, hermeneutic precision, and cinephilic verve.
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Haskell inscribes Frankly, My Dear with psychoanalytic insight, hermeneutic precision, and cinephilic verve.
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The Gotham-based cinephilic cabal known as the New York Film Critic Circle has announced its awards.
Awards: Little Gold Men Movie Blog Sancton, Julian 2009
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The Gotham-based cinephilic cabal known as the New York Film Critic Circle has announced its awards.
Dark Horses: Little Gold Men Movie Blog Lopez, John 2009
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I had seen Marienbad and Hiroshima and many more in crappy prints all through my cinephilic teens, and I had read and re-read James Monaco's 1978 book on Resnais too many times to mention.
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And '06 might as well have ended for me with the dull bang of The Departed, Scorsese's depressingly impersonal concession to corporate marketplace demands for a minimum of style and no discernible substance, particularly not of the cinephilic variety.
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Cinephilic teenagers of the 1960s had The 400 Blows, Breathless, Dr. Strangelove; cinephilic teenagers of the 1970s has Harold and Maude, Chinatown, Taxi Driver; cinephilic teenagers of the 1980s had Repo Man, Blue Velvet, Stranger than Paradise; cinephilic teenagers of the 1990s had Rushmore.
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Everyone is describing it as a tremendous and privileged cinephilic experience, and talking up the "Dante's Inferno" retrospective screenings in general as one of the great cultural events of the year.
Archive 2008-04-27 2008
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