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What can I say — “Boyhood” was moving and meaningful, while “Birdman” was pretentious and obtuse, and none of my cinéaste colleagues are going to persuade me otherwise.

His cineaste mother took him from their home in Boulder, Colo., to Colorado Springs about 100 miles away, to an art house where they would watch French New Wave films.

Equal parts ingenious designer, D.I.Y. repair guru, rail engineer, cineaste and athlete, Sami is, according to many cast and crew members, Anderson’s secret weapon.

As cineaste subjects go, it’s a fertile association, certainly for a making-of specialist like Alexandre O. Philippe and his style of movie essay.

But what feels like a cineaste’s inside joke dissipates once the gynecologist explains to Rachel that she doesn’t have much time left to become pregnant.