cinephile
Noun
Meaning
cinephile (plural cinephiles)
An enthusiast of films and the cinema; a cineast.
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Examples
I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.
I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.
Devin is a life long comic fan, pro wrestling enthusiast, cinephile, and music nerd.
Known as being a lifelong cinephile, Truffaut once (according to the 1993 documentary film François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits ) threw a hitchhiker he had picked up out of his car after learning that the hitchhiker didn't like films.
Richard Brody in The New Yorker wrote: "For Scorsese, a lifelong cinephile, the essence of New York could be found in its depiction in classic Hollywood movies.
The city is also quite cinephile.