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UK
/fˈɪlm/
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[ US /ˈfɪɫm/ ]
[ US /ˈfɪɫm/ ]
NOUN
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a medium that disseminates moving pictures
theater pieces transferred to celluloid
film coverage of sporting events
this story would be good cinema - a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
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a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
they went to a movie every Saturday night
the film was shot on location - photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
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a thin coating or layer
the table was covered with a film of dust
VERB
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record in film
The coronation was filmed -
make a film or photograph of something
take a scene
shoot a movie
How To Use film In A Sentence
- As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down.
- The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
- A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame.
- Sony Pictures Animation has a full slate of films including the mouth-watering 3D comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which opened as the #1 movie in North America on September 18, Hotel Transylvania, now in pre-production and, in association with Columbia Pictures, The Smurfs, now in production. Anton Yelchin and Fred Armisen Join The Smurfs | /Film
- For centuries, scholars have squabbled over the design of the ship, which was crucial to defeating the Persians in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., part of a wider war that included the fight at Thermopylae dramatized in the film "300. Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
- I walked out of the theatre feeling a little odd, as I often do when I have been deeply immersed in a film.
- The film print is extremely clean with only a little bit of grain.
- Filming went ahead in spite of the bad weather.
- Kids sneaking into and R-rated film and having to be kicked out after a few minutes by n usher is one thing, but when the parents are taking them is another. R-Rated Movies: How Young Is Too Young? « FirstShowing.net
- The film also stars Jared Leto as Alexander's special boyhood chum, Rosario Dawson as his sex-starved wife, Angelina Jolie as his nagging mother and Val Kilmer as his abusive father.