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.
Not exact matches
In a review
of a book on the history
of cinephilia, Mas Generis writes:
Cinephilia, is the condition
of a sexual attraction to movies.
What keeps Reverse Shot's writers
in the game, as much as any hope
of others reading their work, is the journal's palpable sense
of community and
cinephilia.
If
cinephilia has a literal holy text, to be referred to and examined
in times
of joy and stress and sorrow, it is this.
In its kneejerk nostalgia, Wonder Wheel fillets bits and pieces
of Manhattan (the declamatory opening), Broadway Danny Rose (the guys yakking, the mob), The Purple Rose
of Cairo (the
cinephilia, the hopeless romanticism) and Bullets over Broadway (the period love, the mob) among sundry others.
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.
Naremore's interest
in all aspects
of cinema, his total and single
cinephilia, draws me to cinematic subjects, such as movie acting, that I normally would not have much interest
in.
The videos are a great expression
of Greg's
cinephilia, but what's the use
in making so many movies if none
of them are truly your own?
As the only festival
in the US to be accredited by FIAPF, and having developed under the shadow
of the formidable American Film Institute, the event entertains a complex relationship to mainstream US film culture and international
cinephilia.
The videos are a great expression
of Greg's
cinephilia, but what's the use
in making so many movies if none
of them are truly his own?
If you also factor
in that the film is full
of nods to the French New Wave, including an obnoxious overuse
of classic scores by Georges Delerue, you might deduce that Baumbach's reverential hyper -
cinephilia has gotten the better
of him again.
BRUCE GOLDSTEIN By Kent Jones The repertory programmer
of New York's Film Forum talks about life
in the trenches
of cinephilia
Like with Boogie Nights
in 1997 and Pulp Fiction
in 1994, the exuberance
of Trainspotting defines for me a stage
of cinephilia, when I first began to really believe
in the joy
of making cinema.
Yes the parameters may be looser — we encourage submissions
of older films, for example, firmly believing that such viewing keeps
cinephilia alive and is always
in dialogue with contemporary film viewing.
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.»
As stated
in the comments
of an earlier post, my whole indoctrination into
cinephilia was prompted by the Oscars and I sought out and learned so much Old Hollywood BECAUSE
of the ceremony's focus on multiple generations.
It is
in this quality
of perennially being a level playing field for film criticism that 21st century
cinephilia is most promising, rejects as it does both the intellectual priesthood
of the academia and the oligarchic taste - making
of print criticism.
These experiences are key to my understanding and participation
in cinephilia, essential to the fabric
of my relationship with the cinema.
This conflict
of motives tended to be allegorized
in the privileged objects
of cinephilia.
As I burnt the candle at both ends attending the city's various theaters
in a hypnotic state
of solitary immersion for three days, I disconnected from reality and rekindled my
cinephilia in excellent company: Henri - Georges Clouzot, William Friedkin, Jean - Pierre Melville, and Wong Kar Wai, who were given retrospectives alongside Harold Lloyd, Diane Kurys, Jean - François Stévenin, and Michael Mann.
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.
Brice Dellsperger: «Body Double: Vous N'en Croirez Pas Vos Yeux» (through Aug. 1) Taking
cinephilia to absurdist extremes, this French artist makes ultra-low-budget films
in which he and a few other actors, usually
in drag, recreate scenes and full - length versions
of well - known movies, retaining the original soundtracks.