cinema

noun

cin·e·ma ˈsi-nə-mə

British also -ˌmä

: motion picture

—usually used attributively

: a motion-picture theater

: movies

especially : the film industry

: the art or technique of making motion pictures

Example Sentences

a student of French cinema We drove by the cinema to see what was playing.

Recent Examples on the Web Film critic Elvis Mitchell explores the origins of Black cinema in this new documentary.

Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022 Over the years other festivals have been adding parallel sections of Latin American cinema, a symptom of its growing international relevance.

Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022 John Calley, who ran Warner Brothers in the 1970s and then was the CEO of Sony Pictures in the early 2000s, said to me that the dirty little secret of American cinema is that Black movies financed much of the mainstream.

Rivea Ruff, Essence, 9 Nov. 2022 Though Orton, in concert later this week at the Irish American Heritage Center, is rightly admired as a poetess of British folk-rock, her closest analog might be a poetess of Francophone cinema: Claire Denis.

Matthew Richards, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2022 Film critic Elvis Mitchell explores the origins of Black cinema in this new documentary.

cleveland, 6 Nov. 2022 The eleventh month of the year is devoted to the darkest, dankest corners of cinema, where the devious and the downtrodden reside.

Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022 These days, the most exciting, innovative cinema emerging from la république is by women.

Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2022 If that’s not enough, the sundeck offers another outdoor cinema, a bar and a Jacuzzi.

Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2022 See More

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