Meanings
- not comparableThat voraciously consumes cinema, with implied negative perception of such habits
The implication of their overreactions is clear: a defense of laziness, convenience, and (cinephagic) gluttony—-things they probably don’t like in other people.
2025 December 2, A. S. Hamrah, “A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs”, in The New York Review of Books, archived from the original on 02 Dec 20251 more example
In this way, Migrating Forms, formerly the New York Underground Film Festival, allows itself considerable experimental drift, programming an impressively broad range of contemporary avant-garde films, vintage video art, schlocky revivals and remixes, and esoterica to satiate the rarest of cinephagic appetites.
2011 June 10, Genevieve Yue, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Third Annual Migrating Forms Festival at New York’s Anthology Film Archives”, in Reverse Shot, Museum of the Moving Image, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2026
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