Cinemania

There are fans and there are fanatics; Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak's documentary portrait of five film-obsessed New Yorkers is a sobering chronicle of the difference. Sobering, at least, for film buffs in danger of allowing moviegoing to replace living, as Jack Angstreich, Bill Heidbreder, Harvey Schwartz, Eric Chadbourne and Roberta Hill have. No one who spends a lot of time in movie theaters, particularly repertory houses and museum/film society-related venues, can fail to recognize the type. Unkempt, bursting with arcane knowledge and unruly opinions, disturbingly intense and wedded to routine — heaven help you if you inadvertently sit in their favori...