Cinemania

Name: Cinemania
Genre: Documentary
Released: May 16, 2003
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 67

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: May 16, 2003 | Not Rated

Summary: Meet Jack, Eric, Bill, Roberta, and Harvey -- five cinemaniacs whose viewing habits make regular old cinephiles look like simple recreational moviegoers. (Tribeca Film Festival)

Director: Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 83 min

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David Sterritt

You may become a cinemaniac yourself after sitting through this beauty. Read full review

Wesley Morris

What Christlieb and Kijak do so well is keeping these folks from not seeming like loons. Read full review

Rory L. Aronsky

A fun time and a must-see. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

The filmmakers aren't exactly cruel, but they focus on compulsion rather than passion, which by implication tends to tarnish the more intellectual and scholarly members of the breed. Read full review

Desson Thomson

It's too short, and it doesn't delve deep enough. But it's thoroughly enjoyable. Read full review

Marrit Ingman

A couple of the cinemaniacs are less defined than others, but the portrait that emerges is a detailed composite of life on the fringe. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

A voyeuristic look at voyeurs, Cinemania never seems sure whether it's a comedy or a tragedy. Instead, the film just seems intent on depicting its subjects as lovable kooks, a reductive portrayal that does little to acknowledge the desperation and loneliness that permeates every frame. Read full review

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MetteT.

Jun 12, 2006

this was my favorite film at Göteborg Film Festival a few years ago and i have seen it again since...i think if you look for 'reasons' you will find them...do you need everythign explained to you and served on a platter - i think this pop-psychology attitude is very this was my favorite film at Göteborg Film Festival a few years ago and i have seen it again since...i think if you look for 'reasons' you will find them...do you need everythign explained to you and served on a platter - i think this pop-psychology attitude is very simplistic - the characters are revealed beautifully through the detail of their crazy lives - they are endearing, revealing and ultimately very human. i feel sad for you to miss the whole point of the film! and the end, this is the best, smartest ending of all. The reflexive quality of showing filmbuffs a film of themselves, yes, this is a very smart reference to jean Rouch i think, but wow, it made me love it all the more.… Expand

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LowellHighschool

Feb 5, 2006

What a bore. The directors I believe got lost and never found what they were looking, and that is reasoning for why these people have an obbsesion with movies. Besides the movie has no direction and in the end goes no where .

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