cinephile

noun cine·phile \ ˈsi-nə-ˌfī(-ə)l \

|Updated on: 12 Aug 2018

Definition of cinephile

: a devotee of motion pictures

Recent Examples of cinephile from the Web

While some of the festival’s eight shorts programs are sold out, cinephiles ages 5 through 11 have abundant options.

— laurel graeber, New York Times, "Events for Children in NYC This Week," 1 Feb. 2018
One of the legends of mai holds that the trouble began in February, when André Malraux, the minister of culture, fired Henri Langlois, a beloved founder of the Cinémathèque Française and a guru for young French cinephiles.

— New York Times, "Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968?," 17 May 2018
The question, local cinephiles say, is why the police even bothered to seek charges.

— New York Times, "A Crackdown on Film Props Angers Hong Kong’s Cinephiles," 1 June 2018
For $10 a month, cinephiles can watch a movie every day with MoviePass.

— jessi hempel, WIRED, "Why Lyft Is Trying to Become the Next Subscription Business," 20 June 2018
The Day After What a cinephile blessing to be living through the Hong Sang-soo renaissance, this current creative spout for the Korean auteur who’s been releasing multiple masterpieces a year.

— the editors of gq, GQ, "The Best Movies of 2018 (So Far)," 19 June 2018
Zoe says the Online Ceramics project is the studio’s first in a series of potential new collabs, part of a broad effort to develop an A24 audience that’s not just cinephiles, but, really, anyone who’s interested in culture.

— samuel hine, GQ, "Hereditary Is Here and So Is the Film’s Insanely Spooky Merch," 8 June 2018
Indeed, looting museums was one of the charges that the authorities leveled against Parajanov, a nonconformist who was persecuted and imprisoned on suspicions of homosexuality and became a cause célèbre among Western cinephiles.

— New York Times, "In ‘The Color of Pomegranates,’ the Cinema of the Cryptic," 24 May 2018
Salma Hayek: Harvey Weinstein was a passionate cinephile, a risk taker, a patron of talent in film, a loving father and a monster.

— fiza pirani, ajc, "From Weinstein to Lauer: A timeline of 2017's sexual harassment scandals," 26 May 2018

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