cinema
(sɪnɪmə )
Word forms: cinemas
1. countable noun A2 regional note: in AM, usually use movie theater, movie house
A cinema is a place where people go to watch films for entertainment. [mainly British]
The country has relatively few cinemas.
2. singular noun A2 regional note: in AM, usually use the movies
You can talk about the cinema when you are talking about seeing a film in a cinema. [mainly British]
I can't remember the last time we went to the cinema.
They decided to spend an evening at the cinema.
Synonyms: pictures, movies, picture-house, flicks [slang]
3. uncountable noun
Cinema is the business and art of making films.
Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
...in the early days of cinema.
Synonyms: films, pictures, movies, the big screen [informal]
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Quotations:
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per secondLe Petit Soldat
A film must have a beginning, a middle and an end. But not necessarily in that order
To wish the movies to be articulate is about as sensible as wishing the drama to be silent
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out
Collocations:
cinema audience cinema film cinema movie cinema screen cinema theatre commercial cinema contemporary cinema digital cinema early cinema experimental cinema independent cinema international cinema mainstream cinema modern cinema silent cinema
The film left me in tears, in a shocked, silent cinema audience.
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Heads roll, sparks fly, wolves howl and the cinema audience collapses, weak with laughter.
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And whichever way you look at that particular character trait, it's not destined to endear her to the average cinema audience.
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How can a static art exhibition be made gripping for a cinema audience?
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I have never known a cinema audience so totally silent.
The Sun
It's his debut cinema film.
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He drew cartoons, made his own comics and, in an early display of ingenuity, created makeshift anima-tions on an old projector using bits of broken cinema film.
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He speculated that an observer who traveled faster than light would see time reversal, similar to a cinema film being run backwards.
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The pure cinema film illustrated the transition from steam powered locomotives to diesel and electric traction which was taking place during that period.
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A cinema film version was released in 1968.
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The three installments - the final being a cinema movie release - have been seen by 225million people around the world.
The Sun
Color suites are sometime placed in digital cinema movie theaters with a video projector for color correction to that display format.
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In the official ranking of the most seen cinema movies of the year 2010, the production took the 14th place.
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It features five to six nights a week playing movies, documentaries, indies, foreign films, and restored cinema movies.
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Cinema movies are typically recorded at 24fps, and don't benefit from interlacing.
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Anyone, believer or non-believer, can shut their eyes to the cinema screen.
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Interstellar features some of the most thrilling moments you'll see on a cinema screen this year.
The Sun
I dunno - perhaps around, say, four cameras and five times the resolution of a cinema screen you hit the point of diminishing returns.
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He was never quite a star, but whether on stage, cinema screen, television or radio he was an unmistakable presence.
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With the stage brought forward into the auditorium - previously, it was as remote as a cinema screen - the old fly tower becomes redundant.
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It has a non functioning old cinema theatre.
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Just a hamlet with a church, handful of schools and cinema theatre five decades ago, it has grown rapidly through large-scale real estate developments.
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Sangeet was a popular cinema theatre that screened only western movies.
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But it was also a huge box-office success that proved the business case for commercial cinema.
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It's the film that changed commercial cinema.
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Indeed, for most of the first act, the movie seems to be lifting the lid on a subject that has been ignored by commercial cinema.
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By 1914, continuity cinema was the established mode of commercial cinema.
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With 17 years in mainstream advertising and 7 years of advertisement film-making and commercial cinema, he completed about 1000 commercials and 15 music videos.
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The canaries in the coal mine of contemporary cinema, they emerge from the darkness singing the praises of the latest festival sensation.
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Even her films, though never likely to be considered classics of the silent era, are analysed for what they can tell us about contemporary cinema techniques.
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Everyday life - everything from fashion and international travel to classic and contemporary cinema.
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Reporters in contemporary cinema are facing a fundamental lack of trust, not to mention an apparent absence of personal hygiene in many cases.
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An international readership follows his website celebrating classic, obscure and contemporary cinema, as well as film history.
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It was built as a digital cinema with no 35mm backup.
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The switch to digital cinema has barely touched the consciousness of the public.
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It's a narrative tool filmmakers have never had before, but digital cinema makes it all work.
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Special effort has been made to build accessibility features into digital projection systems (see digital cinema).
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Color suites are sometime placed in digital cinema movie theaters with a video projector for color correction to that display format.
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The plot allows the film to teach viewers a bit about early cinema — an educational agenda that goes with the old-fashioned spirit of the movie as a whole.
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Fashion and film from early cinema to the digital age 288pp.
The Times Literary Supplement
Spectacle, story and scripture in the early cinema 331pp.
The Times Literary Supplement
The museum also includes local history displays, and a collection of early cinema artifacts from the 1890s and 1900s.
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The film remains an early influential example of realism in early cinema.
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The festival lasts a weekend and combines left-field musical performances and experimental cinema showcases.
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The article suggested that to avoid misinterpretation of experimental cinema, one must see the films as containing multiple streams of history that overlap and intermingle.
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It has aged twenty years of the avant-garde in one fell swoop because it both integrates and surpasses all the discoveries of experimental cinema.
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Today the term experimental cinema prevails, because its possible to make experimental films without the presence of any avant-garde movement in the cultural field.
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Thereafter, a new sense of excitement and trend enveloped the industry with the coming of digital and experimental cinema.
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He has been one of the biggest champions of independent cinema for the best part of 30 years.
The Sun
Yet the town has all the necessary attributes, including an independent cinema, a highly regarded auction room and good schools.
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She was also a champion of independent cinema.
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There are two excellent coffee shops that put on live music, an independent cinema, a folk festival, a great little book shop, a deli and two butchers.
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The rise of superhero franchises has long been seen as a key reason why independent cinema collapsed, leading to a dearth in character drama on the big screen.
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The times, very slowly, are a-changing for this festival barometer of international cinema.
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When its directors graced the international cinema stages soon thereafter, critics were amazed by their deeply poetic, visually rich, morally serious, and intensely introspective filmmaking.
Christianity Today
Whatever your taste, you will find plenty to enjoy at the festival, from world premieres to special events hosted by some of the greatest names in international cinema.
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Some critics consider it one of the greatest films in the history of international cinema.
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The film was also released in international cinemas.
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Experimentation was thus severely constrained in mainstream cinema, though in fact the process usually looked anything but natural.
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Mainstream cinema occasionally limbos under the 'bad taste' line.
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The kind of icky, yucky moments that are usually the preserve of the horror flick have crossed over into mainstream cinema.
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As a film-maker, he eschewed mainstream cinema.
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Film-makers were asked to pick actors who have broken into mainstream cinema with eye-catching performances in at least one feature-length film.
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He kept up, too, with developments in modern cinema — and was often ahead of his younger friends in what he had seen.
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I had an opportunity to work with some of the greatest directors of modern cinema.
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Family films with original ideas - just what modern cinema lacks.
The Sun
Breathless kickstarted modern cinema, with its breakneck pace, jump cuts and detached, narcissistic characters.
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And the modern cinema stands on the same principle.
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The film left me in tears, in a shocked, silent cinema audience.
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While the film may be an ode to silent cinema, it takes advantage of modern movie-making technology.
The Sun
Part rom-com and part love letter to silent cinema it captures all who see it.
The Sun
If this book encourages a wider interest in the lost world of silent cinema, that would be a job well done.
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In this opening episode, he explores how the classical orchestral film score emerged from the early days of silent cinema and remains an essential part of cinema today.
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Translations:
Chinese: 电影院
Japanese: 映画館
- physical capacity
- physical challenge
- physical characteristic
- physical comedy
- physical condition
- physical confrontation
- physical constraints
- physical contact
- physical coordination
- physical courage
- physical damage
- physical danger
- physical decline
- physical demands
- physical dependency
- physical description
- physical destruction
- physical dexterity
- physical dimension
- physical discomfort
- physical education
- physical effect
- physical embodiment
- physical endurance
- physical energy