Published during a global shutdown of movie theatres due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the focus of Cinephile 14.1 has adopted an eerie timeliness. As our external lives have contracted, our appreciation for that which is often denigrated as subsidiary—or supplementary—has sharpened. Small moments and gestures procure a sudden gravity as souvenirs of securer, social times. Confined to our homes, we yearn for the comfort of contact, of settling down in the dark with strangers in anticipation of the latest film. While the collective theatrical experience is momentarily paused, audiences are resilient, finding avenues to connect through many of the paratextual practices and materials considered in these pages. In Cinephile 14.1, you will read essays that consider the multiple mediators that shape not just our relationships to cinematic stories, but to each other.