I.
noun
1 ( esp. BrE ) moving pictures ⇨ See also ↑ movie
ADJECTIVE
▪ long
▪ short
▪ feature-length
▪ entertaining , exciting , good , great , interesting
▪ blockbuster , successful
▪ awful , bad , boring
▪ epic
▪ violent
▪
She thought the ~ far too violent to show to children.
▪ R-rated ( AmE ), X-rated
▪ animated
▪ silent
▪ black-and-white
▪ big-budget , low-budget
▪ Bollywood , Hollywood
▪ independent , indie
▪ television , video
▪ action , adventure , children's , comedy , documentary , gangster , sci-fi
▪ feature
▪ porn , pornographic
▪ horror , slasher , snuff
▪ classic
▪ cult
▪ mainstream
▪ foreign , foreign-language
▪ upcoming ( esp. AmE )
VERB + FILM
▪ see , view , watch
▪ enjoy , like , love
▪ go to (see) , take sb to (see)
▪ direct , make , produce , shoot
▪
She makes children's ~s.
▪
The ~ was shot on location in Kenya.
▪ be in , do
▪
Cruise does around four ~s a year.
▪ take
▪
~ taken by security cameras
▪ cut , edit
▪
The ~ was heavily edited for screening on television.
▪ distribute , release , screen , show
▪
The ~ was finally released after weeks of protest by religious groups.
▪ promote
▪ ban , censor
FILM + VERB
▪ be on , show
▪
There's an interesting ~ on at the multiplex.
▪ come out , open , premiere
▪
The ~ came out last week.
▪ be based on sth
▪
a ~ based on the novel by Charles Potter
▪ be called sth , be entitled sth
▪
a ~ entitled ‘Bitter Moon’
▪ capture sth
▪
The ~ manages to capture the mood of the times.
▪ contain sth , include sth
▪
The ~ contains explicit scenes of violence.
▪ depict sth , portray sth , present sth , represent sth , show sth
▪
The ~ depicts immense courage amid the horrors of war.
▪ tell sth
▪
This ~ tells the remarkable story of a disabled actor.
▪ feature sb , star sb
▪
The ~ stars Nicole Kidman as a nightclub singer.
▪ record sth
▪
a ~ recording the first powered flight
▪ deal with sth
▪
a ~ dealing with old age
▪ open
▪
The ~ opens with a bird's-eye shot of London.
▪ end
▪ be a hit , be a success
▪ be nominated for sth
FILM + NOUN
▪ director , editor , maker , people , producer , writer
▪
The script has plenty of what ~ people call ‘bankability’.
▪ crew , team , unit
▪ world
▪ actor , actress , legend , star
▪ part , role
▪ career , debut , work
▪ credits
▪
We stayed for the ~ credits
▪
His ~ credits (= the films he has made) as director include ‘Mood Music’ and ‘Lies’.
▪ critic , reviewer
▪ review
▪ buff , fan , lover
▪ premiere
▪ censor , censorship
▪ screenplay , script
▪ music , score , soundtrack
▪ narrative
▪ scene
▪ stunt
▪
He was killed when a ~ stunt went wrong.
▪ poster
▪ studio
▪ set
▪
They built a massive ~ set of an airport.
▪ adaptation , version
▪
the ~ version of the best-selling novel
▪ classic
▪
the ~ classic ‘Fantasia’
▪ documentary , drama
▪ genre
▪ clip , footage , sequence
▪ report
▪
The news always contains several ~ reports.
▪ series
▪
the ‘Star Wars’ ~ series
▪ archives , library
▪ business , company , industry
▪ mogul
▪
Tyrannical Hollywood ~ moguls ruled their stars' lives.
▪ distributor
▪ making , production
▪ festival
▪ show
▪ awards
▪ camera , equipment , projector , recorder
▪ rights
▪
The scramble for the ~ rights to her next novel has already begun.
▪ school , student
PREPOSITION
▪ in a/the ~
▪
There is a great car chase in the ~.
▪ on ~
▪
They captured the incident on ~.
▪ ~ about
▪
a ~ about Nelson Mandela
▪ ~ from
▪
a ~ from Spanish director Luis Eduardo Aute
▪ ~ of
▪
They've just started shooting a ~ of the novel.
▪ ~ with
▪
a ~ with an all-star cast
PHRASES
▪ the beginning of the ~ , the end of the ~
▪ be in ~s (= work in the film industry)
▪ the climax of a ~
▪ the plot of a ~
▪ a ~ with subtitles
▪ the screening of a ~ , the showing of a ~
2 used for taking photographs
ADJECTIVE
▪ black-and-white , colour/color
▪ fast
▪
Fast ~ is best for action shots.
▪ 35 mm , etc.
… OF FILM
▪ reel , roll
▪
a roll of 35 mm ~
VERB + FILM
▪ load , put in
▪ remove , take out
▪ rewind
▪ develop , process
▪
I get my ~ developed locally.
▪ expose
▪
In the darkroom they found that only half the ~ had been exposed.
▪ splice
▪
He spliced the two lengths of ~ together.
3 thin layer of a substance/material
ADJECTIVE
▪ fine , thin
▪ surface
▪ plastic
VERB + FILM
▪ be covered in , be covered with
▪
The books were covered in a thin ~ of dust.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
▪
There was a fine ~ of sweat on her forehead.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ secretly
▪
The controversial experiment involved secretly ~ing a group of children.
▪ on location
▪
The serial was ~ed on location in Italy.
PHRASES
▪ beautifully ~ed
▪
fast-paced, well acted and beautifully ~ed in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Film is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ camera
Film is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ adaptation , ↑ documentary , ↑ episode , ↑ movie , ↑ scene , ↑ sequence , ↑ series , ↑ video