cineaste

Or cin·e·ast,

[sin-ee-ast, sin-ey-]

noun

1. any person, especially a director or producer, associated professionally with filmmaking.

2. an aficionado of filmmaking.

cineaste

/ ˈsɪnɪˌæst /

noun

1. an enthusiast for films

Word History and Origins

Origin of cineaste¹

1925–30; < French cinéaste, equivalent to ciné- cine- + -aste, as in ecclésiaste, gymnaste, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cineaste¹

C20: French, from _cinema + -aste, as -ast in enthusiast

Example Sentences

Kogonada earned the industry’s attention as a cineaste who spliced together video supercuts illustrating the techniques of auteurs like Ozu, Kubrick and Wes Anderson.

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I’m a champion of the film, and so, too, I reckon is the cineaste I saw inside the Lightbox theater wearing a souvenir T-shirt who’d scratched out the “Toronto” with black marker to scrawl, “Winnipeg.”

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Silvia Del Carmen Castaños was a student in a Laredo, Texas, high school when the budding cineaste submitted a short piece to a community film festival.

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What can I say — “Boyhood” was moving and meaningful, while “Birdman” was pretentious and obtuse, and none of my cinéaste colleagues are going to persuade me otherwise.

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His cineaste mother took him from their home in Boulder, Colo., to Colorado Springs about 100 miles away, to an art house where they would watch French New Wave films.

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