"What is the difference between like it or understand it?"
I was referring several times to one of my favourite blogs owned by our time's best (another entry should / will prove this statement) film critics David Bordwell. Today he made my day again when in his latest post was talking about the possible differences between cinephilia and cinemania. If you're interested in the topic just click on him, here I'm just briefly mentioning that cinemania is a cinephilia on steroids, an almost sick obsession in movies. A cinemaniac watches several (3 to 7) movies per day, I mean every day! He or she organises his or her day around the screening times (with complete plans included the travelling schedule between the cinemas), collects tickets, leaflets, soundtracks and every kind of memorabilia, knows everything, let's stress it again, everything about movies! They have seen even all the B movies at least 3 times (for Harvey the Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) is already an obvious classic), they are living in another world (most of the time immersed another film-reality), spending all their money for tickets (no matter how poor they are - usually they are, cos' watching films day and night doesn't let them work for living), washing their 1cm thick glasses before every screening, having the projectionists' phone numbers, and so on...
Angela Christlieb's and Stephen Kijak's documentary about New York's five unbelievable passionate (addicted) movie buffs is one of the best I've seen recently. You might think they are crazy (probably you judge right), but they are the happiest people in the world. They look like kind of sad bunch of losers, but at the same time you're becoming envious because of their freedom and true love for moving images. You feel pity but you'd like to be one of them - at least for a week (or a month, or...).
"Film buffs do not socialize, film buffs get together see movies, they do not to get together to having parties they do not to get together to know each other."
If you like movies, you'll love these guys and the film's exactly (!!! :) 83 minutes.
9/10
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