cinephile

The shootout gone awry in the first season of HBO’s “True Detective” garnered Emmys for cinematographer Adam Arkapaw and director Cary Joji Fukunaga and is still talked about in cinephile circles with a hushed reverence.

I became a cinephile because I discovered Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch, and I never got over it.

If you ask a cinephile, there’s nothing better than Imax 70mm film.

The movie’s DIY-to-OMG backstory alone is invigorating: A movie-mad New Jersey electrician, director Sloan and his cinephile collaborator Mastroianni crammed in filming on weekends over two years, then shockingly landed “Gazer” in the Directors’ Fortnight at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, an unheard-of triumph for so unpedigreed an entry.

He says that whilst he commends Rothman's "clever handle" and the cinephile in him values the biopics' "bold statement about the value of cinemas and communal viewing," market realities present cautionary signs.