The journal's particular
brand of cinephilia is obsessive but inclusive; it does not contain citations like fellow film journals Rouge or La Furia Umana, and words like «intertextuality» and «heteroglossia» are not thrown around.
In a review of a book on the
history of cinephilia, Mas Generis writes: Cinephilia, is the condition of a sexual attraction to movies.
Peppered with remarks from Disney artists of old, it's an extremely amiable
slice of cinephilia and really the sum total of the remaining extras.
The glory of Cannes — and
of cinephilia in general, for that matter — is that you never know for sure from which direction the long - awaited lightning bolt will strike.
BRUCE GOLDSTEIN By Kent Jones The repertory programmer of New York's Film Forum talks about life in the trenches of cinephilia
Host Eric Hynes talks to French auteur Olivier Assayas (Carlos, Summer Hours) about visual style, the
paradox of cinephilia, and the connections between cinema and real life.
2016 definitely wasn't my first
year of cinephilia, but it feels in many ways like the first concrete step towards it becoming my all - consuming passion.
That great
wave of cinephilia from the sixties and seventies got less intense, so a lot of the older shows were forgotten.
Jonathan Rosenbaum In the late Nineties and early Aughts, the Chicago Reader film section was a major
hub of cinephilia's online landscape.
Kehr observes that the
culture of cinephilia «used to be about, for instance, hanging out in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art and starting a discussion or argument.»
The
promise of cinephilia is found in the potential of images to have an effect that does not conform to our preconceived ideas or expectations.
Pearl Vision (2012), a video that Leckey produced during a residency at the Hammer Museum, exhibits a similar
kind of cinephilia, but in Leckey's case the desire isn't so much for film itself but for digital video's capacity for analysis and capture.
In fact, Naremore's work involves unifying this
brand of cinephilia — what Jonathan Rosenbaum once referred to as «maniacal, unreasoning» cinephilia — with the critical theories and cultural studies that have dominated academic film discourse.