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as in film
the art or business of making a movie
felt that the cinema was one of the most challenging and fulfilling forms of artistic expression
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as in theater
a building or part of a building where movies are shown
got a job cleaning the cinemas at the multiplex
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Recent Examples of cinema
While hope remains for that project (more on that shortly), the sting felt more painful after Judith Hoag, cinema's first live-action April O'Neil, said she'd been approached about reprising her role before the movie stalled.
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Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Feb. 2026
For the cast, McCullough and Hernandez assembled a young cast of up-and-coming theater and cinema talents like Johnston, who has been cast to play Joan of Arc in Baz Luhrmann’s next feature film.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 16 Feb. 2026
Many artistic enterprises, including theatre, opera, and the circus were promoted by their imaginings, but, for sheer nerve, cinema took the crown.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
Frederick Wiseman, a titan of American cinema whose singular approach to observational documentaries inspired generations of younger filmmakers, died on Monday.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2026
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Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Feb. 2026
For the cast, McCullough and Hernandez assembled a young cast of up-and-coming theater and cinema talents like Johnston, who has been cast to play Joan of Arc in Baz Luhrmann’s next feature film.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 16 Feb. 2026
Many artistic enterprises, including theatre, opera, and the circus were promoted by their imaginings, but, for sheer nerve, cinema took the crown.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
Frederick Wiseman, a titan of American cinema whose singular approach to observational documentaries inspired generations of younger filmmakers, died on Monday.
—Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cinema
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Take, for example, the Roberto Cavalli dress Robbie wore to kick off the film’s promotion last month.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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In another demonstration, images encoded into flat films gradually became visible as the material morphed into dome-like 3D structures.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Feb. 2026
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In June 2013, Nikolic invites Gates to attend Crazy Horse, a famous burlesque cabaret theater in Paris.—
Erin Mansfield,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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Check out the new trailer for the film below, which Searchlight Pictures will release in theaters on Friday, March 20.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
5 Feb. 2026
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The co-production between Chile, Argentina and Italy not only solved a practical problem, but reaffirmed our belief that collaborative filmmaking is one of the most vital ways to sustain independent cinema.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Feb. 2026
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Fischbach isn’t the first YouTuber to jump into big-screen filmmaking.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
16 Feb. 2026
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In September, playhouse officials announced that David Ellenstein, who had been its artistic director since 2023, would retire from his post, saying at the time that the venue planned to pursue a different artistic direction.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
4 Feb. 2026
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The town of Bay Harbor, which has a population of about 6,000, sits some 18 miles northeast of the playhouse and the city of Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
15 Jan. 2026
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After a Massachusetts judge lifted the ban, the movie was released to the public in 1991.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
17 Feb. 2026
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The movie, which earned numerous honors, including a Best Picture nomination, was among the first mainstream films to depict a same-sex couple raising children.—
Mike Miller,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Cinema.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cinema. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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