I remember seeing Nicolas Roeg’s “Don’t look Now” on TV at age 5 and was intrigued. I saw Altman’s “Nashville” at age 10 and fell in love. I recall staying home from school when I was seventeen (20 years ago) and watching a triple-header of “8-1/2”, “Midnight Cowboy” and “Network.” I’ve been a film geek ever since.
I’m 30. I’ve always loved movies but I don’t think I started getting obsessive and reading up on film history until I was at least 23. Up till then I was only shamelessly obsessive about books, music, sports and exercise. I feel much healthier now that I have films to keep me from completely geeking out on those other things.
I’m 20 years old. I started watching and fell in love with the classics at the age of 14, but only started watching films of all genres and periods in the last 3 years.
Not until I was around 17-18. I had been a huge fan of anime before that and then I slowly started watching more foreign films and contemporary indies.
Straight out of the womb.
There are threads that are already created asking “How old are you?” if you’re so inclined. For me, I didn’t really get into film as a serious subject until I took my first film class in college, which would have been in 2000, when I was 18. This is really when my interests began but it honestly wouldn’t be until 2001 or 2002 when I really would get serious about film as a career path (so I was probably 20 or so).
I started to like movies when I was 19. I started to love movies when I was 21. I’m 22 now and have a lot of catching up to do.
I was 12-13 when I got the movie bug, but the French film “Diva” cemented the passion with no turning back circa 1986. it’s been a thrill ride ever since. I’m now 37.
I was 4 yrs. old when my mom introduced me to old movies and we’d watch one every Saturday afternoon. I’m 22 now and we still watch one or two every Saturday afternoon.
13-14, I had never seen the Godfather, I watched them, did not like them then watched Goodfellas and loved it. Then I watched almost every Scorsese movie and well, then it happened. I do like the Godfather now though =p
7 or perhaps 6, that is as far my memories with films go.
but seriously, I think 13 is when it all started.
I loved film since I was little. I remember spending whole weekends watching movies.
I didn’t really start to get into film until I was 13. I’m 21 now.
Something just hit me, I guess I was old enough to understand everything better.
10-11. Watching the late show on tv. The late show was my first film school.
13 – A Clockwork Orange sealed my fate
15 – pulp fiction sparked it because i made a friend in high school who was obsessed with movies so i decided to listen to him and now i’m obsessed. now im 17.
About six months ago – I’m 44.
My passion started around age seventeen for me.
I got into film pretty big back in 2005, at around fifteen. I only wish I started sooner…
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I’ll be 44 next week, and I first started getting serious about cinema when I hit 10 or 11 probably. But I only started getting really serious when I joined this forum about 10 months ago (never even heard of Bela Tarr before that).
I’ve always had an interest in film but it really took flight when I was 17.
I’m 25 now.
I started watching films since I was very very young, maybe two years old! My parents are HUGE cinephiles and have showed me tons of VHS-recorded films including some very obscure films that I would have never had the chance to see otherwise. I also saw a lot of great films on television (that they don’t play no more) as a child and I was absolutely fascinated by the medium. I became very serious about cinema in my teen years.
I remember skipping out on kindergarten to attend a Godard film festival. Must have been about 4 or 5…
Well, no not really. I lied. If I had to pinpoint any moment in my life when I saw how powerful a medium film could be it would probably be when I was watching the USA cable program Night Flight which ran every Saturday evening from 11 PM to 6 AM. It had mostly music but they would also show weird cult films and assorted art-house gems. It was on Night Flight that I first saw Eraserhead and Godard’s Sympathy For the Devil. Night Flight was the gateway and pushed me into all sorts of new directions. It only ran for a few short years during the early 80’s but it left its mark on me.
I think I’ve documented my Lost Highway/Fight Club/Requiem for a Dream triple feature transition here many a time, but anyway it was in the middle of high school, so 16 or so.
—PolarisDiB
Well, my love of movies was first established when I saw Star Wars for the first time at age 6. But I really became obsessed last October, when I was 15. I saw 8 1/2 for the first time and nothing would be the same again.
I can always remember liking movies, but I never really was that into them until about 7 minutes ago, when I saw a preview for Avatar. I’m 87.
I wouldn’t/couldn’t sit still enough to watch movies until five years ago (minor stroke), I’m 52 now.
at 15, thanks to Tarantino. been 3 years now
College
Since I saw Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo at the age of 11.
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This is my subtle way of finding out how old people really are in this forum :P, haha.
I pretty much started getting into film at the age of 18 (that was 2 years ago), and I do envy people who have started watching great films at an earlier age. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind just blew my mind but after that I have watched more mind-blowing films than Eternal Sunshine.