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film

[film] / fɪlm /


VERB
take photographs
Synonyms


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He started his film education at Santa Monica College, where he took every film class offered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Siddhant Adlakha of IGN scored the film four out of 10, describing its action as "clunky" and its computer-generated imagery as an "eye-sore".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

The senior, who’s on the director’s track of UCLA’s film and television program, said he isn’t “afraid necessarily about where the industry’s heading because there’s always going to be space for artists.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

India's most expensive film - a lavish retelling of the Hindu epic Ramayana, made in two parts for a reported $500m - has opened in cinemas worldwide, sparking enormous expectations and mixed reviews.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Eventually she hoped to film overseas, in actual Eastern locations.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

The items came from the collection of stuntman Vic Armstrong, who doubled for Harrison Ford in the first three Indiana Jones films, which were shot at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Long dominated by mass-market Hindi-language Bollywood, Indian cinema churns out around 2,000 films each year and has been expanding its global appeal.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Prada and Apple also have released behind-the-scenes films of their ads being created.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

All of this informs the zombie’s continued proliferation across popular culture, in films like “World War Z” and shows such as “The Last of Us” and “The Walking Dead.”

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

“No offense, Dadi, but I think I know everything about what a career in films entails. I don’t need to watch some documentary made for laypeople. Okay?”

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

Spike Lee filmed the show’s penultimate night at the Belasco Theater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

The pair oversaw the ceasefire, travelled into Oleshky and were filmed speaking to residents together.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

So we weren’t surprised to see Collins close with another, almost identically filmed ad featuring Green six years later.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026

He said that he scraped together his minimum earnings this year by taking on more commercial gigs and acting in a vertically filmed microdrama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

He discovered that, evidently unbeknownst to anyone, someone had filmed the race.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Stallone met with Ippolito a month before filming began, and shared the story of his difficult journey towards "Rocky."

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Actors Matt Rife and Owen Wilson of “Rolling Loud: The Movie” look back at the chaos of filming at a real-life music festival.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Richard Avedon shot Hepburn dancing with Astaire on the set of “Funny Face,” and Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra filming “Guys and Dolls” in 1955.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

The “Girls Next Door” alum was filming an episode of the reality series—which ran from 2005 to 2010, and had taken the cast to Sunset Ranch to produce a horseback riding scene.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Great,” said Maria, and she signaled to the cameraman to stop filming.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz


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