Are you a film buff?

I failed your quiz quite badly.
I will now delete my account purely for dramatic purposes!!!

1. Of course
2. Of course
3. Of course
4. Of course
5. Um... not sure without looking at what they are. But probably.
6. Um... also not sure. But probably.
7. Of course.

I'm not going to submit my own quiz, but I am going to suggest one can qualify as a film buff without meeting all your criteria.

For one thing, I think a person can specialise and still regard themselves as a film buff. After all, none of us can see everything. There's just too damn much of it. So people inevitably prioritise different things.

Almost exclusively watch horror films? Or exploitation trash? But watch a lot of those movies and know everything there is to know? You're a film buff.

Have a much deeper knowledge than most people walking the street (even a street in Tokyo) of the Japanese new wave? Or maybe classic era 1940s Hollywood is your thing and you've seen all the also-ran movies too? Or Hong-Kong action films of the 1970s-80s? You're a film buff.

To me a film buff (or cinephile if we prefer) is someone who:

1) prioritises films over other forms of entertainment
2) knows a lot -- even if it's niche / specialised knowledge and...
3) strays off the beaten path of the very mainstream stuff consumed by more casual film fans.

And that's about it.

1. Have you seen more than 1,000 films?
YES

2. Have you seen films from more than 20 different countries?
YES

3. Have you seen multiple feature films from every decade going back to the 1910s?
Yes, I’ve seen even earlier ‘films’ from the 1800s, although those were more like moving picture shows and didn’t really have stories the way we understand them today.

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4. Have you seen multiple musicals, westerns, and film noirs?
Yes, especially Westerns and film noirs.

5. Have you seen at least half of the Oscar's best picture winners?
Not sure about this one, honestly. I don’t really care too much about awards shows.

6. Have you seen at least 100 of the imdb top 250?
I’ve seen 83 off of the list that’s up today.

7. Have you seen at least two films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Ingmar Bergman?
Hitchcock and Kubrick, yes. I’ve never seen a Bergman film.

So, it's not a solid yes to all, but I'm not a film buff anyway. I prefer 'cineaste' because it sounds so much more self-important and pretentious 😜.

1. Yes. I've seen 1979 movies.

2. EDIT: Yes I have! USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, South Korea.

3. No. I haven't seen anything from the 1910s. The 1920s and onwards yes, I've seen 6 movies from the 1920s. 21 from the 1930s. 53 from the 1940s. 66 from the 1950s. 106 from the 1960s. 224 from the 1970s. 364 from the 1980s. 267 from the 1990s. 388 from the 2000s. 325 from the 2010s. 159 from the 2020s.

4. Yes. 43 musicals, 39 film-noirs and 31 westerns.

5. No. I've only seen 27 best picture winners.

6. Yes. I've seen 135 of the IMDb top 250.

7. Yes. I've seen 21 Hitchcock movies, 10 Kubrick movies and 3 Bergman movies.

1. Yes. 4732 according to my IMDb votes.

2. At least 32. Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Ireland, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Greece, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Japan, Argentina, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Romania, Czech Rep., Netherlands, India, South Africa, China, South Korea, Mexico, Iran, Hungary.

3. Yes. At least 10 from every decade.

4. Yes.

5. Yes. I'm maybe 12 away.

6. Yes. About 20 away.

7. Yes. At least 5 from each.

1. No.
2. Yes, I think so.
3. I think yes.
4. I would not say "multiple".
5. No.
6. Nol
7. I am not sure.

Nothing about actually going to the theater to see them?

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Yes
6. No idea, don't care for that list -- but I strongly suspect I have
7. Yes

And I agree with capuchin's 2) and 3). I know people who watch more movies than I, but they only watch mainstream, popcorn films -- and by watch, I mean half-watch, letting it all wash over them without soaking up much. Movies are just light entertainment for them, and not really an art form to be savored.