film

[film]

A film, also known as a "movie" or a "motion picture," is a series of moving images shown on a screen, usually with sound, that make up a story. Some people like to see new films at the theater as soon as they're released.

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A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

Noun
a thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust"

Noun
photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies

Noun
a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things

Noun
a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events"

Noun
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"

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Verb
make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"

Verb
record in film; "The coronation was filmed"


n.
A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

n.
A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.

v. t.
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.


Film

Film , n. [AS. film skin, fr. fell skin; akin to fylmen membrane, OFries. filmene skin. See Fell skin.] 1. A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
2. A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.

Film

Film, v. t. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

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Usage Examples

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.

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Other Usage Examples

A film that I love is 'Raising Arizona' and that's funny but it's quite indie and weird and odd and quirky. I'd love to do something like that. Who knows?

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

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