cineaste - \SIN-ee-ast, SIN-ey-\

cineaste

\SIN-ee-ast, SIN-ey-\ noun 1. any person, especially a director or producer, associated professionally with filmmaking. 2. an aficionado of filmmaking. Quotes …Mr. Jones remains rigidly focused on hammering home the director François Truffaut’s motivation for writing the 1966 book on which this film is based: To lead Hitchcock, then widely considered a mere commercial entertainer, out of the shoals of populism and into the cineaste spotlight. -- Jeannette Catsoulis, "Review: 'Hitchcock/Truffaut' Revisits the Master of Suspense," New York Times, December 1, 2015 Origin Cineaste comes from the French cinéaste. It entered English in the early 1900s.