Cinemania

I totally disagree with those who say the film is depressing. While I would not to trade places with any of these people (with the possible exception of the guy who inherited a bundle from his aunt -- heh!), I... Full review

This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. A rather interesting picture of the cineast of New York. We follow a couple of movie freaks in NY and get to know their every day life and their feelings... Full review

CINEMANIA runs sometimes on the Trio channel so I've seen it a few times. Its characters are what I'd probably become if I had unlimited time and resources to go to the movies five times every day. I've already been... Full review

CINEMANIA is a film for its subject matter: film geeks. I absolutely loved it, which tells you a little about me. This is a great film for anyone who's ever hopped a cab, bus or subway train in a mad... Full review

The most impressive thing is that these people are real. No CGI or Stan Winston animatronics, and Frank Oz doesn't have his hand up their back, they are real people of flesh and blood just like me and you! Scary,... Full review

Manhattan is a mecca for the lonely. Nowhere in the world can people survive for years without the need of communicating with other people. Some of them have absolutely no life, or in the case of these five characters in... Full review

This movie, IMHO, is highly successful in depicting life of 6 New York movie "buffs" and contrasting their detached perception of reality and the dynamic world around them. The director gets the viewer to approach these people at different levels,... Full review

A homage to the obsessive-compulsive essential New York normal schizophrenic in the form of a film buff. How better to characterize this great town than with portraits of it's neurotic citizens. We love New York and New York loves the... Full review

Cinemania, screened recently as a world premiere at AMMI in Queens (where it was partially shot), deals with the marginal world of true movie nuts: New Yorkers who attend anywhere from 500 to 1000 feature films in cinemas per year... Full review

This film was a favorite at the Seattle Film Festival. I went to a screening last night with rather high expectations, some of which were met and others, which well... were not.We follow six oddballs from the big apple whose... Full review

I've always considered myself an avid cinephile, but after viewing the entertainingly disturbing documentary Cinemania , I think I need to adjust that self-definition. I wanted more from Cinemania , although I admit to finding it diverting in a sadly humorous way. ... Full Review

The politically correct one would make the movie an unbearable bore The ending of a feel-good movie requires a happy ending for the protagonists, no matter what the larger picture, and in spite of the odds stacked against them, Jack, Bill, Roberta, Eric and Harvey seem perfectly contented in their isolated, cinecentric worlds. ... Full Review

It's likely that, given our film-saturated culture, many of the viewers of "Cinemania" will be fully capable of identifying with their plight. You might think they'd come off as hopeless film geeks, and, indeed, that's the dominant impression. ... Full Review

Except for Eric, who also watches a lot of videos, they insist on movies and hate TV. Jack has inheritance ("If I don't blow it all on hookers, I will never have to work"). Bill likes European movies since the French New Wave. ... Full Review

Cinemania's" collective portrait is of marginal people who year by year cut themselves off from a real world they didn't relate well to and who found a solace in flickering images. Bill Heidbreder appears to be the brightest and most articulate of the lot, someone who might have taught film in college or done some serious reviewing or become a film historian had he not gotten sidetracked by the process of watching. ... Full Review

Cinemania is truly one of those fascinating, highly anticipated documentary films that just seems to revel in it's own mixture of those obsessed filmgoers who find refuge in a darkened theater. ... Full Article

If I ever worried that there might be something, you know, wrong with me and my passion for movies, I can now rest easy. Because this funny, sad film -- by Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak -- assures me that... ... Full Article

I will admit to having a rather large movie obsession - if I dont watch at least one film a day, things just dont seem right. ... Full Article

Movie freaks are a rare breed.I should know, because I employ a dozen or so of them here at filmcritic.com.And then I saw Cinemania , a documentary from directors Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak. ... Full Article

Cinemania is a cathartic experience for a film buff like myself. I often look at the amount of films I watch (usually between five or six a week) and think to myself, this is quite a lot for one person... ... Full Article