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CINAMNESIA (N.) sin-nam-‘nee-zha  The common condition of forgetting or misremembering scenes, actors, plot points or dialogue in movies you think you know by heart (a condition whose sufferers frequently fail to realize their affliction). Usage: Bruno loved HItchcock movies, and adored the Hitchcock heroine Kim Novak, especially for her role in “The Birds,” which he’d seen in college and committed to memory. But Bruno had cinamnesia: it was Tippi Hedren, not Novak, who starred; he’d remembered it wrong for a decade.  Text © Liesl Schillinger 7/23/2011 Image ©Elizabeth Zechel, 7/23/2011

CINAMNESIA (N.) sin-nam-‘nee-zha  The common condition of forgetting or misremembering scenes, actors, plot points or dialogue in movies you think you know by heart (a condition whose sufferers frequently fail to realize their affliction). Usage: Bruno loved HItchcock movies, and adored the Hitchcock heroine Kim Novak, especially for her role in “The Birds,” which he’d seen in college and committed to memory. But Bruno had cinamnesia: it was Tippi Hedren, not Novak, who starred; he’d remembered it wrong for a decade. 

Text © Liesl Schillinger 7/23/2011 Image ©Elizabeth Zechel, 7/23/2011

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