When you’re filled with sadness and anger when a movie you’re dying to see is a region 2 DVD and you’re stuck in America.
I know I’m a cinephile when it says it right next to my fucking name! SUBMIT TO ME! CHOKE ON YOUR INFERIORITY!
Now that that’s settled, I’m not so sure about that poster. I kind of hate it. Is that bad? Sorry. I bet plenty of people like it.
Michael, a real cinephile has a region free player and has that shit imported.
When you paid a stiff price for an old, late ’80’s VHS copy of Kurosawa’s High & Low, (despite the excellent remastered Criterion releases) just because the film looked yellowish-gray, charmingly old-stock – like something you normally catch on the tube at 2AM.
When you’re willing to argue that Russ Meyer is not sexist, to a group of college feminists in a cafe, while outnumbered 5-1.
When you’re the only bloke to recognize an old Klaus Kinski standing in a California supermarket cashier queue full of soccer moms circa ’91.
-when your world is in technicolor.
-when you “look closer”.
-when you wish you could sell New York Herald Tribune on the Champs Ellysses instead of your normal day job.
you quote your favorite movies in real life…
you compare real life situations to ones in classic movies…
you find ways to critique even the mainstream movies…
you make a square with your fingers and say “god this would make an EXCELLENT camera angle…”
you spend your day job reading senses of cinema and the auteurs
….When watching the latest movie in a theatre with a friend, you struggle so hard not to whisper “Wait a second they stole that scene/shot/story from [insert great movie]!”
….When you refuse to where a shirt that does not reference a movie (or music but that isn’t cinephile-y)
….When it rains you reenact the entire scene from Singin’ in the Rain
Hazel, on a daily basis when my dog misbehaves I grab his face and say “I knew it was you Bruin! You broke my heart, you broke my heart!” (?I think that is the right words in the quote?)
And when my mom is arguing with me about school I say “Those who can’t do teach, and those who can’t teach teach gym.”
The best is when you quote a movie, and nobody knows what the hell you’re talking about.
I do this frequently with “American Psycho” and i get quite a few strange looks…
it’s wonderful…
Your dreams have dissolves.
….When you are sitting in science class watching a video on the Apollo missions and to open it they play the musical piece from 2001 and you say “Hey 2001: A Space Odyssey!” and then the kid next to you goes “What?” and you say “The movie 2001 thats the main music.” and they say “Why would they take music from a stupid movie? The movie probably took it from this.” and you cry inside and also question the persons intelligence to think a movie would copy music from an old science class video.
Wait, really? That’s only happened to me?
When you shit raw stock.
You stay at work well over midnight even when your shift ends @ 9 — just to download those films you have heard about so much. You wanted to be a writer but after watching Persona, you think cinema too could be a powerful medium of expression. But you don’t stop writing because you think you must write that bestseller soon and it’ll probably get someone interested in filming it. You leave home with little money and absolutely no idea about what you would do next in a foreign land. You’re lucky, you get a job as a copyeditor for a U.S. newspaper (which means a lot for a 20-year-old from Kathmandu) but you start spending more time reading and writing about movies than watching them. You wait for your roommate to go somewhere so that you can watch your black and white films alone. You cannot make your life a priority and nothing else can make you happy because you still can’t get rid of this film that plays all the time inside your head. You quit your day job, because your favorite director asks you to come to join him in that film city and of course, you’re going.
When I decided, at the age of seventeen, to watch every movies in their original language only (I live in a non english speaking European country). That meant then to go to the movies for the 10, 11 or 12 PM showings only and to cycle for miles through improbable neighborhoods trying to find the little cinema showing The Seventh Seal.
When I started to choose a film according to the name of its director.
When I started to sit quietly through all the final credits and to be mad at those who were leaving the auditorium.
When I first watched Werner Herzog’s AGUIRRE. 34 years ago.
Efe Çakarel dude, I love that poster, thanks….
Quand tu peux dire : " Le cinéma ? C’est ma passion ! J’en fais tous les jours à mon mari et il adore ça !"
It’s a really typical french expression ! Merci l’ami !
Could you translate that into English? I don’t understand French. Sorry.
It’s like : " cinema ? it’s my passion ! i do it all the time to my husband and he’s adoring it ! " In french “faire son cinéma” means to simulate, to feign something… it’s difficult to translate !!! I hope it’s understanding, sorry :s
It’s like : " cinema ? it’s my passion ! i do it all the time to my husband and he’s adoring it ! " In french “faire son cinéma” means to simulate, to feign something… it’s difficult to translate !!! I hope it’s understanding, sorry :s
when you have over 200 dvds in your private collection yet cannot entertain your friends with them when they come over…
When you count " I Love Melvin," “Hercules Conquers Atlantis,” and “New Rose Hotel” among your favorite films.
Like so many of you have said, when a lot of the people you know have never even heard of your favorite films, and
-while planning a trip to a European country you research where your favorite movies were filmed, down to the exact address whenever possible!
-there are movies you’ve seen at least eight times (in my case that includes Contempt, Le Feu Follet, Elevator to the Gallows, and All About My Mother among others)
-when you can watch an entire movie and then in the same sitting, turn around and watch it with the commentary (my boyfriend doesn’t get this one at all no matter how much he likes a movie)
Maybe when you look down your nose at people who haven’t seen or like the films you’ve seen (without good reason).
Mon Oncle Skellington
“When you shit raw stock.”
—-best definition yet : )
When you spend your social energy on this website.
Once when I told my friend’s ex that I had seen over 800 films her eyes nearly popped out of her head and she looked at me with the kind of sympathetic look reserved only for drug addicts. (I’m well over 900 now and going strong…but nowhere near Truffaut’s record!)
Every time I watch a film I add it to my list on IMDB religiously, then weeks later go through the list and try to remember some of the ones that have a title that’s unfamiliar and then suddenly it comes back to you.
When a date recommends a movie like DaVinci Code you immediately offer dinner at a restaurant instead because anything’s better than watching a bad film.
Like Anna says watching a movie then immediately rewatching it with the commentary. It’s almost better the second time because you discover things you didn’t know or overlooked, plus it’s a good intro to film theory.
When someone tells you they don’t like watching B&W movies you feel like strangling them.
Going into a local Blockbuster and cringing at DVD box covers that are more gaudy and hyped than the shitty excuse for a movie inside it.
Watching trailers in theatres for remakes that do not need to be remade at all and shaking your head while everyone else appears to be enraptured.
When people judge a film based on whether it won any Academy Awards or worse, a glowing review, then you show them dozens of older Academy Award films in the bargain rack at Bestbuy that they never heard of.
When your friends think that European films are “too slow” and you feel sorry for them.
(Oh, and for the record, I’m not a fatass and I don’t shit raw film stock or have any funky movie tattoos…but I know of another breed of addicts that sit endlessly in front of tv’s and computer screens. I think they’re called gamers.)
Yes, B&W movies and, god forbid, subtitles! I admit to being a movie snob, but when people respond to my suggestion for a movie with, “Oh, does it have subtitles. I hate subtitles,” I really lose my stuff because they won’t even give foreign movies a chance. I feel like these people are truly missing out on something. I’m kind of amazed, too, by the number of people who are turned off by subtitles and/or B&W films. Your comment about European movies being “too slow” is a good one too. I try hard to not make judgements on these people. I don’t know why it makes me so crazy; not everyone gets the same kind of joy I do from a really well-made film.
John V, is that 800 films in your lifetime? What was Truffaut’s record? How old are you?
I’m just curious because my guess would be the people on here who watch 200-300 a year would be at thousands and thousands. My guess would be in my life I have seen 500-600 movies, but I’m 15 so I have quite a few years left to increase that number.
I in no way want to rain on your parade and I guess I am and am being an asshole but whatever I apologize in advance if you interpret my post in a mean way. I would just guess you have seen more (this all depends on your age) because think about all the films you saw that were bad as just a fun night with friends over the years.
Also I agree whenever someone says hey lets go see (fill in recent bad movie) and I say no I’m not in the mood to see a movie. They always say but wait I thought you loved movies. It takes all of me not to yell 10,000 BC is not a movie! haha
@ Michel- That totally happens to me all the time.
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..you get super excited when your designer shares with you a cool poster idea for Cannes!