When “movie” has less credibility than “film” in your head.
when you can watch 8+ movies in a single day without getting winded.
These are all VERY true haha!
I’d like to pull one from the beginning and re-state it in my own words:
When your brain becomes the director to your body, ie the actor, and you get infuriated with your actor when you’re drunk and they’re not cooperating…
When waking up and watching a great film is the perfect way to start your day. (yesterday: Port of Shadows… it really set the stage for a GREAT day… which ended with a Mogwai show!)
When you skip meals so that you can afford the criterion of Ugetsu so you can read all of the stories it’s based on (from the booklet), Watch and re-watch the film, and then write about it for the cineastes may 15th film reviewing.
and I REALLY REALLY agree with the one about spending hours trying to figure out which of the hundreds of films you own (including many that you still haven’t seen) you wanna escape into that night…
@ Drew, that is only 800 that I think are worth seeing at least once (I keep ‘score’ on IMDB) and yes over the course of many years, although most have been in the last five years. Quality is better than quantity! I’ll go through long periods of watching nothing, sometimes for several weeks, then periods of only watching films. In one interview I watched with Truffaut he mentioned watching literally over 3000 films! Of course, he had a rough childhood and sneaking into theatres was his past-time. In my case winters are long and boring here, and I got really hooked after some recommendations by a buddy who has a film degree (and a giant stomach!).
Actually, I think it’s pretty cool you are a cinephile at such a young age. I was still being dragged to High Concept silliness in the 80’s at fifteen because it was fun and I didn’t know much better, which is exactly what everyone else that age is doing now. The great thing about cinema is that it only gets better as you get older, and as you begin to read philosophy, cultural and media studies, psychology, etc. the themes become much deeper. I’m 40 and enjoying what movies mean more than ever.
You know you’re a cinephile when?
You’d tell your favourite auteur they can have their way with you.
…when you have a blatter infection cuz you held in your piss to stay in the theater and finish the movie.
…When you find yourself looping the commentaries to your favorite films. (as I have been with Boogie Nights)
You may have problem: When you’ve already listened to it countless times before….(yikes)
p.s. I hate the term/word “cinephile” as well.
When someone calls your fashion sense “thrift store new wave” and you not only know what they’re talking about, but you almost piss yourself with delight!
… when you stay up till 2:30 am two nights in a row making fake Criterion covers. On a work night. And you check your browser first thing in the morning to see if anyone else has posted something cool.
…..when anytime you are in a store that sells DVDs you take every Michael Bay movie and hide it behind other DVDs, so no one can see it and buy it. I swear to God I do this a lot.
… when you feel like someone has ripped a hole in your chest, pulled out your heart and violently sawed it apart when you see the American producer kicking Fritz Lang’s reels in Contempt.
You know production company intros.
you know the aesthetic history of production company intros.
… when you post in a forum where many know the aesthetic history of production company intros.
Does anyone else hide bad movies? I was expecting a few people to say “Hey! I do that too!”.
Not in shops, but I hide my bad dvds at home.
No, that’s never even occured to me.
If you do this, you probably shouldn’t work at Barnes and Noble. haha
Haha actually Criterion DVDs cost more than others. I put copies of The Third Man where Bad Boys 2 should be. BAM I have just made B&N 30 bucks. That is assuming the person is too stupid to realize that the DVD isn’t for Bad Boys 2.
Honestly though I see people walking around B&N all the time pondering on what movies they should see. I often give these people advice. My one friend said I was acting like a missionary trying to force my religion on people. I see it more as me exposing people to great films that have had an effect on my life. I’m not forcing them to watch it. Right?
Oh and if anyone goes to the Target in TO, CA, look behind all of the Indiana Jones movies, The Exorcist, and hmm a few others. Today I placed Bad Boys and its sequel into hiding behind these films.
You’re 10 years old and you convince your parents that you HAVE TO HAVE the hardcover of something called John Wayne: The Man, The Myth (my first “film” book)
@Drew: Wow! I do that too! Sometimes I even take some DVD’s from a row of let’s say Kurosawa and place them in front of other rows.
Fandorin-San, me too!
What’s Eyes Wide Shut doing hiding behind Gran Torino? Hmm bump that one up.
I wonder if we have ever effected anyone’s movie buying. Probably not, but I would like to think so.
I would love to enter a movie store and see good films on every single row.
Has anyone ever taken a sharpie into a store and wrote “This Movie Sucks!” on a DVD. I have always wanted to but figured the store would just buy new copies so I really wasn’t doing any good.
I did plan on writing on copies of NC-17 films in Blockbuster “This Film is Edited- Boycott Blockbuster!” but I made the mistake of telling my dad the plan and he took my sharpie away. So instead I just took the DVDs and hid them in weird places around the store.
None of that makes you a cinephile Drew. It makes you a vandal.
Haha I don’t think putting DVDs back in the wrong order makes me a vandal. If I were to write on them then yes it would make me a vandal but I haven’t ever done that. And Blockbuster doesn’t tell their customers the movies they are buying are edited. That is just wrong to me. If they don’t want to carry them then fine, but don’t carry I chopped up version and pretend like its the original.
Blockbuster is a huge multinational corporation. It’s almost their job to screw us out of our hard earned money. I don’t understand how their still in business, though. Haven’t you people found Netflix and the library, yet?
Do libraries in the US offer R-rated films for rental? Wait, are libraries in the US government institutions or privately run?
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I have NetFlix and haven’t been to Blockbuster since I got it. I have no clue how they are still in business, because they have a very limited selection and crappy employees. A few years ago I asked if they had Annie Hall and the guy immediately responded no we don’t have Andy Hall. I said the film is Annie Hall not Andy, and can you check. He said no we don’t have it.
What I was saying is they still do have customers and they shouldn’t lie to them.
Elmen Tsarukyan
….when you use the word cinephile…i hate the term film buff myself…