I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a comedy film
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They were the most successful comedy films of all time.
a film crew
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The film crew were making a political documentary.
a film/art/music etc critic
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He became the chief music critic for the Herald Tribune.
a film/movie camera
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Karl trained the movie camera on him.
a film/movie director
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the film director Stephen Spielberg
a film/movie fan
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This book is a must for all film fans.
a film/music/dance/arts festival
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The movie won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
a film/music/poetry etc award
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the annual British music awards
a movie/film/screen/Hollywood actor
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the movie actor Brad Pitt
a sad story/song/film
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He had listened patiently to his client’s sad story about her awful life.
a television (film) crew
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A television crew were allowed to film the meeting.
a television film/movie (= a film that has been made to be shown on television, not in a cinema )
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Ford appeared in several television movies.
appear in a film/play
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She has already appeared in a number of films.
car/film/shoe etc maker
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a quality furniture maker
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a leading Japanese computer maker
feature film
film noir
film star
film/acting/directorial etc debut
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His Broadway debut was ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’.
funny story/joke/film etc
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Do you remember any funny stories about work?
independent film (= one not made or produced by a large film production company )
mass-market paperback/novel/film etc
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a mass-market paperback priced at $8.99
self-indulgent novel/film etc (= said when you think the book or film only expresses the author or director's own interests, which are not interesting to other people )
television/film/stage etc adaptation
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He’s working on a screen adaptation of his latest novel.
television/film/theatre producer
the film version (= a film of a book or play )
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He appeared in the film version of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'.
the film/music industry (= the work of producing films or music )
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She would really like to work in the music industry.
watch a programme/film/show
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They were watching a film on TV.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
independent
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The subject is contentious enough in all conscience - the independent film .
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No one could argue with the contention that 1996 was the year of the independent film .
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The independent film movement, broadly speaking, grew out of an art tradition.
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But he eventually migrated to Chicago, where he acted in independent films and theater.
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National Video Resources aims to help increase public access to high quality, independent film and video.
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Mr Afman built up a profitable portfolio of loans, mostly to small, independent film studios and heavily secured.
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And those vignettes were made by local college students working with an award-winning independent film director.
late
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Now she fears that her latest film , her masterwork, may threaten her ability to work there in the future.
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His latest film Peter's Friends is due out this week with Branagh serving as producer, director and star.
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They were late for the film and had to go all the way down to the second row.
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Derek Malcolm reviews Kevin Costner's latest film , and the other new releases.
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And a fairytale ending ... Speilberg's latest film to aid children's hospital.
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Interview: David Puttnam's enigma variations Puttnam's latest film is made for television.
short
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The stimulus material was a short silent comedy film made by Mack Sennet around 1925.
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In short , this film of which I dreamt was not a montage of standard scenes and stock characters.
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Wide Angle screening day A programme of innovative short films and videos made at Wide Angle this year.
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Disney hired him when he was 21 as a writer, based on a short film he had made as a student.
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A short film will be shown on Black and Decker prior to the tour followed by a question and answer session.
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The only black nominated was director Diane Houston for a live-action short film .
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The short is a film about sailing.
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Robert Benchley, a writer turned stand-up comedian who pioneered television-type comedy in his short films .
■ NOUN
crew
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The gunmen and the survivors who came here, the photographers and correspondents and film crews simply walked on to the theatrical stage.
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A film crew had it narrowed down to Ahwatukee or a spot near the Phoenix Zoo.
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And did the film crew make a difference?
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After Major League Baseball agreed to cooperate, the Giants allowed film crews access to the stadium.
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As their cameras rolled, the film crew looked on anxiously while Crawford drove the Rolls up the ramp.
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Neighbors, many of them familiar to Primo, and the film crew , were just standing around.
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Because she was used to humans our film crew was able to cut her free.
critic
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Vincent Canby, the influential New York Times film critic , has died aged 76.
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The film has gotten good reviews, but it has scared the wits out of some male film critics .
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Today we are a film critic .
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After the University of Montpellier he worked first as a film critic , then as a reporter in Paris.
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The two day forum will consider, amongst other issues, the current role of the film critic .
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Have new television channels, satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only?
director
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There are few film directors who can resist a good car chase.
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And sometimes, he even toys with his long-running fantasy of dropping out of the business and becoming a film director .
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So was film director Oliver Stone.
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Now the legendary film director wants Sam to fly to New York for a second interview next week.
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Cleese, 52, fell for her after his divorce two years ago from his second wife, film director Barbara Trentham.
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The usually private Sporty Spice posed hand-in-hand with film director Dan Cadan.
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This film director , Bella Kropotkin, was undoubtedly after him, and undoubtedly he would take advantage of it - tonight!
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By 1989 there were very few significant Marxist philosophers, critics, or film directors in Britain.
feature
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We want to make the first feature film with a laugh track.
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Fiona Fullerton, then only fifteen and in her third feature film , played Alice.
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All three feature films have been turned into prime-time series.
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A high-profile Hollywood feature film now runs about $ 50 million to produce.
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The early feature films took up society as the situation required.
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The first star of a Steven Spielberg feature film may not be a name you recognize.
industry
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An analogy with the film industry , or treatment as an entirely distinct medium requiring its own organization, was inappropriate.
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Figures for employment in the film industry are vague.
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While tightening control of film content, the government has opened the film industry to market forces in two ways.
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The film industry is obsessed with drugs.
maker
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Its footage is mainly licensed world-wide to film makers for inclusion in features and documentaries.
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Movie companies are understandably uptight about relinquishing control over how products are portrayed by film makers .
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For his documentary, Oxford film maker , Richard Stanley looked not only at how Oxfam works, but why it exists.
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But this time it's the plane's owners and pilots who've turned film makers .
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Voice over It's a chance for the film makers to make the most of the true Oxford experience.
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Eventually car chases became a clich, and film makers explored alternative transport in their quest for cinematic thrills.
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An initiative to improve the skills of local film makers was also piloted.
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The film makers say it shows routine insensitivity to livestock, but experts say they're wrong.
noir
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Tetchy, funny, ugly and clever, this replays the dynamic of a first-class film noir .
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Cinema verity, film noir , that kind of thing.
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The story is designed to be a modern-day film noir .
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Vanessa Vail must have polluted Daine's film noir universe.
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But, significantly, Softley brings in, as the plot encourages, stylistic elements of film noir .
producer
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It would be a film producer , an electronics company, a retailing outfit and a publishing house.
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Is there really any connection between Leonardo and Columbus apart from the sort imagined by flatulent film producers ?
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Inspired by those ten minutes in Bullitt, film producers even tried extending the car chase to fill the whole film.
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The film producer Sam Goldwyn was informed that an actress contracted to his studio had had a baby.
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And Mellor willingly accepted her lavish hospitality - even though he was Arts Minister at the time and she was a film producer .
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Can this tightly-controlled society churn out inspired film producers ?
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He replaces film producer David Putnam who is standing down after seven years in the position.
star
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Jacqui was as beautiful as any film star .
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They were all a bunch of spoiled, badly behaved film stars and he had no patience with any of them.
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A millionaires' row for the aristocracy, film stars and the kings of international business empires.
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His background hardly prepared him for a life of elegant luxury as a film star or obedience to the star system.
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Hedy Lamarr, the film star who was billed as the most beautiful woman in the world, has died aged 86.
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She ran off with a younger film star .
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The wireless and the cinema gave me such enjoyment that I decided I'd become an actor, a film star .
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The film Star Wars demonstrates this perfectly, both in sound and vision.
version
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A film version of J K Rowling's first novel is expected to boost sales.
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Meanwhile, the film version of Skipped Parts begins production this summer.
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It was like the search for the Holy Grail, but more like the Monty Python film version .
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Except for a film version of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, his film career was mainly an extension of his operetta activities.
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He was the first actor chosen for the film version , which Douglas produced.
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The offices are so old-fashioned that one was used as Scrooge's office in a recent film version of A Christmas Carol.
■ VERB
appear
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If strong women characters do appear in Hollywood film , this is no consolation for feminists.
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Neikrug is also gratified that Schell appeared in the film .
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He has now appeared in 60-odd films .
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As you select the photos you want to use, they appear on the film strips.
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Robin Quivers, Fred Norris and others from the morning show will appear in the film .
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But 19-year-old model Saffron Domini needed little persuasion to appear in a harrowing film about racism and violence.
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As Mike had feared, the chimps did appear on film rather like dark shadows lost in the leaves.
make
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Here everything that goes into making a roll of film is monitored, recorded and automatically adjusted.
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She was born there, she lived there until age 21, and she has made nine documentary films about the country.
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But I have made the films as I wanted them.
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It turns the essential artifice of this new delivery system into an asset, making the film seem a paean to plastic.
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I had never thought of making films .
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Four years in the making , the film is a jaw-dropping spectacle, with one bravura sequence topping the one before.
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Cleese has since sold his share of Video Arts for a reputed £7 million, but he still makes films for them.
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Oddly, this scene makes the film a good date movie, but not necessarily a good first date movie.
produce
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Production Once the script has been agreed, the agency selects the production company to produce the film .
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Dreyfuss also will produce the film .
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In this example, the marginal benefit of another film exceeds the marginal cost of producing another film.
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Leigh has an idiosyncratic style of filmmaking that produces quirky, layered films .
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Unlike a conventional photograph, an image of both sides of the ewer is produced on the radiographic film .
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It has also produced an increase in films shot overseas, with foreign casts.
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The tax on films is causing too few films to be produced .
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The application of the patina produces a thin black film .
see
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It reminded him of the zombies he had seen in the horror film at the Empire.
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Go to see foreign films together.
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It convinces you that you have to see this film .
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Tourists go for what they have seen in films or in photographs.
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They'd seen the film that summer at Abbotsfield.
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I was beginning to get scared even before I'd seen the film .
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I've seen a lot on film .
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But the idea that you have to see the original film is misplaced and outmoded.
shoot
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I shot film of them carrying Tho away.
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Similarly, there is now available a fundamental choice between shooting on film or video.
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Claire Raskind, publicist for Fish Tale Productions, which just finished shooting the film , declined comment.
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They had shot their own film and it somehow got mislaid.
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The students came up with the stories, molded the characters and then shot the short films .
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His criticism will fuel controversy about the book on the island, where a film starring Nicolas Cage is being shot .
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This afternoon I shot film on Highway 1, in a village south of Neak Luong.
show
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Through it, Donna could see the first of many wax tableaux showing famous film stars.
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I wish I could show you a film of a dunk I had in Milwaukee....
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But here my fourteen-year-old daughter was shown a film about it in school.
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Teachers can improve their own demonstration techniques by observing methods shown in films .
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Among other presentations, the workshop showed films of the pole balancer.
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Kirby did manage to show it at a film festival in Florence.
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Can a teacher be punished for showing an it-rated film to students?
watch
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We settle down to watch the next film .
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For two minutes he tried to settle into the movie, but it was like watching a film within a film.
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The gangs would want to watch the film , but occasionally also drag an usherette into the exit.
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Numerous households will want to watch the film either simultaneously or at overlapping times.
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But watching the films being edited down, I found myself studying neither Karajan nor the orchestra.
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I watch a lot of film , and there are guys who from time to time take it easy.
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I was also diverted, watching the film on video, by what she was writing on her official papers.
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Gray said he asked four of the men who live in Tuskegee to watch the film with him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
animated cartoon/film/feature etc
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All the energy and excitement in this live-action remake of the much-loved Disney animated film went into merchandizing and marketing.
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Application Discuss animated cartoons with your students.
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Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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Give them the following information: Every time you see an animated cartoon you are seeing a series of pictures.
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The two animated films are the No. 1 and No. 2 top-selling movie videos of all time.
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There is a large selection of animated cartoons produced for children.
cult film/band/figure etc
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Brad Pitt in the cult film Fight Club was a fraudulent soap salesman.
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He became a cult figure in which notions of salvation by innocent suffering have a place.
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He is loved to the point of becoming a cult figure.
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He often introduces himself to boomer types as the B-string lyricist for that perennial underground cult band, the Grateful Dead.
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Healing spas were based on a local cult figure and the devotees underwent rituals which included bathing and communal eating.
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I start by telling him that he's quite the cult figure here in Annapolis, and he looks stunned.
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This, however, did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries.
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Vanessa Nygaard is a cult figure waiting to happen, a gale-force personality blowing through Maples Pavilion.
fast film/lens
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Minerals giving very low intensity emission, such as quartz grains, required many minutes or even hours of exposure with fast films.
feel-good film/programme/music etc
full-length play/book/film etc
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How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?
hard-boiled film/thriller/fiction etc
naughty jokes/magazines/films etc
slasher film/movie etc
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So it is saved from looking like a slasher movie with pretensions, or a sub-Joe Eszterhas chiller.
violent film/play/drama
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He thought of hitting Guy, saw himself doing it, like some violent film, slow-motion.
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His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play.
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They have a violent film then they have a violent advert.
wine/film/opera etc buff
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Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
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For the real film buff , however, the place to be has to be BlackStar.
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Inside, bartenders wearing leather harnesses serve beer in cans to an assortment of brutes, heathens, and opera buffs .
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It all started when wine buff Liz entered another competition in the Express.
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Rubbish, I hear all you wine buffs out there say.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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For months the town was full of cameras, lighting and members of the film crew.
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Have you seen any good films lately?
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It's the usual sort of film about boy meets girl.
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Raymond was well-known in film and television.
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She wiped away the light film of sweat that had formed on her upper lip.
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Tarantino is one of the most famous film directors of our time.
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The film starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
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the Hollywood film industry
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The story of Lawrence of Arabia was made into a feature film in 1962.
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They're showing some classic French films at the Rialto.
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What's your favourite James Bond film ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Given his style of working, his new film had to be a particular challenge.
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I was making a children's film nearby.
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In the book and the film Mr Suharto appears egocentric and opinionated.
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The highlights films erode appreciation for the various beauties of the game, some of which are small and patient.
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The naturalness and energy in Fields' performances made these films popular with both middle-class and working-class audiences.
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Well, no film was ever made that way.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
camera
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The stunt took two years to perfect, and the team used a series of remote cameras to film every breath-taking second.
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Then came the day that bought a video camera and filmed me ironing.
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But in the second half when the Glenavon fans were creating trouble the cameras did not film them!
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There is just one television camera for filming .
crew
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They can also send out crews quite easily to film their parliament or people.
movie
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Before then, the Beatles squeezed recording into a schedule that included constant touring and the filming of two movies .
scene
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Reed delayed filming his scenes in the hope that Brando might change his mind, but finally he gave up and quit.
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He and his co-stars describe how scary it was filming the battle scenes in their new movie.
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Miss Perrie was about to film key scenes for Coronation Street when she was dramatically taken ill.
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They were rehearsed and filmed like scenes with dialogue.
series
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Sarah, whose show is a worldwide ratings hit, is now filming another series .
show
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End of October, and the day of filming the actual show at Granada's Manchester studios becomes reality.
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We recorded nearly every night after filming the television show .
video
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He is filmed by a video surveillance camera.
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The bungy jumping was filmed on video .
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He was filmed by video security cameras leaving the shops with two youths.
■ VERB
begin
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Now that I had found my silver-grey subject I could begin filming .
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The Matrix sequels are due to begin filming in California in March.
start
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When we started filming she was very shy but she got better as she went along and she picked up confidence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They filmed the movie off the west coast of Ireland.
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We need permission to film in some of those old churches.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He received 2,000 fan letters a week and, when filming, had no less than 18 stand-ins lined up.
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It's a very austere movie, filmed largely in semi-darkness and featuring a morose baroque soundtrack.
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One of their captors filmed the shootings with a video camera.
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The bungy jumping was filmed on video.