on film
idiom
: in the form of a movie or video
The accident was captured on film.
seeing the works of Shakespeare on film
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Grierson & Leitch write about the movies regularly and host a podcast on film.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
An invitation from Wolfpack quarterbacks coach Kurt Roper to sit in on film sessions and game-planning meetings tugged McCall out of a potentially debilitating spiral.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
The way it was presented to me from the very beginning was a scene on film where my character, Samantha, was going through menopause [due to breast cancer treatment].
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 16 Oct. 2025
The festival’s focus on film music eventually settled into the World Soundtrack Awards and its parent organization, the World Soundtrack Academy, in 2001.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
An invitation from Wolfpack quarterbacks coach Kurt Roper to sit in on film sessions and game-planning meetings tugged McCall out of a potentially debilitating spiral.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
The way it was presented to me from the very beginning was a scene on film where my character, Samantha, was going through menopause [due to breast cancer treatment].
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 16 Oct. 2025
The festival’s focus on film music eventually settled into the World Soundtrack Awards and its parent organization, the World Soundtrack Academy, in 2001.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
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“On film.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20film. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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