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film

[film] / fɪlm /


VERB
take photographs
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“A few clubs locally won’t even allow a camera on-site, let alone film crews,” said Rick Stegall, the club’s general manager.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

A fire at a working men's club in Sheffield which famously appeared in the 1997 film The Full Monty is believed to have been started deliberately.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Their surfaces do not contain dangling bonds, which makes it difficult to grow an extremely thin dielectric film evenly across them.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

Lee Kirk wrote and directed this coming-of-age film starring Mason Thames, Jenna Fischer, Mckenna Grace, Angela Kinsey and Fred Armisen, which was also produced by three members of Green Day.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

Later that day, the plane returned to its hanger, and the film was set aside.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

The movie, starring Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy, ended up as one of the best-loved and highest-grossing British films of the 1990s.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Films used ballet as a perfunctory nod to high culture, for instance employing the likes of George Balanchine to create brief numbers for films such as “The Goldwyn Follies” in 1938.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Instead, consider Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which riffs on slasher films like Sleepaway Camp and Friday the 13th.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2026

Meanwhile, there is no shortage of films and shows about male sports icons and legendary men’s team.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2026

Newspapers, books, posters, speakers, and films, such as The Kaiser: The Beast of Berlin, helped shape public opinion.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

However when he was coming out our local news contact Daphne, who had been able to get inside the compound, filmed him on her phone.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

While filmed performances are usually stale, the movie has long struck me, as a professional ballet dancer who discovered “Invitation” in college, as an example of how cinema and dance can be memorably combined.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Now Billy spends her days alone living in the woodsy location where her breakout movie was filmed long ago.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

The circumstances leading to Hilton’s distressing livestream and Pearl’s filmed execution are entirely dissimilar.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

Khrushchev toured Washington, visited a farm in Iowa, and even watched a movie being filmed in Hollywood.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

The drone remained overhead for several minutes, apparently filming and documenting at close range, before turning back.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

Jones said filming the project, which wrapped earlier this year, had been "an emotional and spiritual homecoming".

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

"They said filming was okay, but they wanted us to enjoy the concert together, and that 'Put Your Phone Down' was more of a mindset."

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

As filming was finishing, the conservancy became home to the first ploughshare births in captivity.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

I had forgotten they were even filming me.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins




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