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I am a Cinephile.

How it developed, I have no idea, but as far back as I can remember I have been completely enthralled by film. From my youngest memories of watching "Grease" with my sister to last weeks foray to the Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport, RI to watch Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There", each experience has stuck with me and given me a sense of fulfillment that I've only been able to match by performing or reading a book.

Perhaps it's my imagination. I've always been an imaginative kid who had a penchant for getting lost in a story. A film is a story that gives you everything you need, and never changes, no matter how many times you wear out your VHS or DVD. Maybe it's that consistancy that drives my love for film, but more often than not it's my imagination and my love for great storytelling. Beautifully developed characters, a tight plot, and depth is what I look for in a story, and it's easy to find in the media of film.

I started this blog because I like to write down my opinions of films, or even just my random thoughts about something I've seen. I don't intend on writing ten-paragraph film reviews, but I would like to write critiques in order to express my own opinions. Whether anybody actually reads them or not, I could care less.

I just hope that I can express how much I love the art of the motion picture, and how much it has brought to my life, and society as a whole. When those two lovers finally get together, when the action hero saves the girl and brings down the villain, when the diseased patient atones for her sins and dies happily, or even when she doesn't, that is the magic of cinema. That is what I love.