Cinemania
by Stephen Kijak, Angela Christlieb
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Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Bill Heidbreder, Eric Chadbourne, Harvey Schwartz, Jack Angstreich, Roberta HillDirector: Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Winstar
Movie Reviews of Cinemania
Movie Review: manic for cinemania!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't know what that other review is talking about! Dissorganized? I teach a course in film editing and this is a perfectly structured little gem - and funny, and human, and really touching. Yes, it's sad at times (these are fringe characters scraping by on the edges of the big city), but it is also very compassionate. CINEMANIA is a near-verite look at some of the most whacked out film obsessives you could ever hope to find, but it reveals them in subtle layers - they're self-aware, smart, dangerously brilliant at moments. I found myself thinking about these people long after I saw the film (and was lucky enough to see it on the big screen!) There's no narration (no obnoxious Michael Moore-type leading you by the hand throught he film - thank GOD) so, sure, it may seem haphazard, but I was caught up in it moment-to-moment. I found it fascinating structurally - seeming to anticipate your questions about these folks and then answering them. I did miss hearing about their past lives a bit, but it seems a very in-the-moment experience, very much like the lives of the characters - as if there IS no other life beyond the confines of the silver screen.
People familiar with more verite styles of documentary filmmaking or brilliant personal essay films like Varda's "The Gleaners and I" will love this. It's a great homage to our love of cinema.
Summary of Cinemania
A funny yet mesmerizing documentary that chronicles the lives of five film crazed New Yorkers so consumed by their obsession that they don?t have jobs or social lives, out of fear that it would take time away from their movie viewing.
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