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Quick, Put This Guy on Ultimate Film Fanatic

Bill Heidbreder, a cinephile who lives in Manhattan, catches 10 art films a week on average, a quota maintained for the last 20 years, ever since his college days in Berkeley, Calif. For someone who doesn't make a living as a film critic, that is a lot of leisure time spent in front of a screen. To gratify his habit, he stints on food: dinner is often just two slabs of wheat bread mortared together with peanut butter.

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A film date, in his view, is awkward by its very nature. "To like going to films, not unlike liking to read, involves a certain cultivation of solitude," he observed. "Even if you're on a date - unless you're with one of these idiots who wants to hold your hand through the whole film - you don't interact with the other person during the film. Which can be very frustrating to some people. They think they've spent two hours with you when all they've done is sit next to you."

The New York Times > Movies > Movie Buff Seeks Other, Love of Film Is a Plus

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