Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A film or movie enthusiast.
- noun A person involved in filmmaking.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
cineast .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A cineaste is a filmmaker that is informed by a love of the cinema, whereas as a cinephile is a mere admirer of film.
Scorsese Adds Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen to Hugo Cabret | /Film 2010
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Cutting a trailer like this obviously tries to reach a particular kind of cineaste but not even a slovenly, perverted ape would find this amusing or interesting.
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But it's in my Top 10 and it's in the Top 20 of almost every hardcore cineaste I know.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: The King And Still Champ: "Citizen Kane" Michael Giltz 2011
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Unless you're an obssessive cineaste with trainspotting tendencies, there's little sense in ticking off the Roman locations from Fellini's films, the places associated with il maestro's life.
Finding Fellini Lee Marshall 2011
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But it's in my Top 10 and it's in the Top 20 of almost every hardcore cineaste I know.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: The King And Still Champ: "Citizen Kane" Michael Giltz 2011
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One such Samaritan cineaste is filmmaker, teacher and Film-Makers' Cooperative director M.M. Serra.
Home Is Where the Park Is Bruce Bennett 2011
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They bring perfect pitch in this French cineaste in which Michel Hazanavicius celebrates the coming of sound to Hollywood.
Nancy Chuda: The Artist: A Review With an Extra Big Shout Out to Uggy Nancy Chuda 2012
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I can sort of understand Scorsese - the ultimate cineaste as filmmaker - wanting to venture into a new cinematic realm and doing it with what is, essentially, a children's movie.
Marshall Fine: Time to Say 'No' to 3D Marshall Fine 2011
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Some of my cineaste friends (you know who you are) find this perplexing, given the genre proximity of SF and horror.
An Ordered Universe Erika Nelson 2009
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Some of my cineaste friends (you know who you are) find this perplexing, given the genre proximity of SF and horror.
Archive 2009-11-01 Erika Nelson 2009
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