cinephile

Borrowed from French cinéphile, equivalent to cine- +‎ -phile.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪnɪfɑɪl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪnəˌfaɪl/

cinephile (plural cinephiles)

1. An enthusiast of films and the cinema.

   Synonyms: filmaholic, movieholic, cineast

   • 2016 March 3, David Thomson, “Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 March 2020:

     The gulf between cinephiles and the public has grown wide. There are pictures that make a lot of money, but seldom win big Oscars or attract young people to the show

   • 2021 July 4, Jonathan Romney, “‘I want to make people laugh’: Quentin Dupieux, the fun auteur of French cinema”, in The Observer‎^[2], →ISSN:

     As a film-maker, [Quentin] Dupieux has elicited varying responses: in the US he is often dismissed as a dilettante, whereas in France he has been acclaimed a real-deal auteur, not least in revered cinephile journal Cahiers du Cinéma, which raved about his 2007 debut feature, Steak (“leaves us slack-jawed and wide-eyed”), and devoted a whole section to his latest French release, Mandibules (2020).

• cinephilia
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• filmgoer
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