How to Use film in a Sentence
- Have you bought any film for the camera?
- A film of ice covered the sidewalk.
- We haven't had the film developed yet.
- He studied film in college.
- He's interested in making films about war.
- We'll start the film at 10:00.
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Some of the gussets are made with polyester and polyurethane film.
— Daley Quinn, Verywell Health, 13 Sep. 2023 -
Those scenes were probably the most planned out of the film.
— TIME, 2 Feb. 2024 -
The 1950 film raised the spectre of ageism in Hollywood.
— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Oct. 2023 -
Once the agreement is reached, the film’s talent are free to promote it.
— Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023 -
The film was shot in Birmingham and Argo in just 12 days.
— Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023 -
There’s the scene within the film where Barry’s rescuing us from the shootout.
— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023 -
Kai Bird consulted on the new Christopher Nolan film, and the book served as a source text.
— Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023 -
This year he's just continued to work on reads and watch film and study things.
— Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Jan. 2024 -
In fact, even Oregonians may not be aware of some of the films that have shot here.
— Kturnqui, oregonlive, 9 June 2023 -
The buzzy film represents a high-stakes gamble for A24.
— Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024 -
At the time, Richard Corliss gave the film accolades in Time magazine.
— Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 11 June 2023 -
The actress, 42, and film producer, 44, were snapped on the streets of Beverly Hills.
— Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2023 -
Now, Fox was in the position of having to grieve her while promoting the film.
— Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2023 -
In three of these films, Boston plays a supporting role.
— Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023 -
However, the track's callback isn't the only Easter egg from the 2004 film.
— Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 15 Feb. 2024 -
Abel Korzeniowski is in charge of the horror film’s music.
— Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024 -
There’s a disturbance in the Force, and the film: The Cerveza Cristal logo appears in the center of the screen, its catchy jingle ringing in the background.
— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2024 -
Dreijer sings, their voice coated in a downy, fungal film.
— Pitchfork, 12 Dec. 2023 -
Powers spent much of his time on the film directing actors in the recording studio.
— Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023 -
And then there are those soundtracks to cult films, whose badness is their entire appeal.
— Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 22 Jan. 2024 -
To most of the general public, short films are just the spanner that’ll always mess up your Oscars pool.
— Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024 -
What were people in the industry’s feelings about a film starring Kevin Spacey?
— K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 July 2023 -
Prosecutors have alleged that Gutierrez brought the live ammunition to the film’s set and loaded it into Baldwin’s gun.
— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024 -
With the next presidential election looming and the film’s real-life subject still neck and neck with Joe Biden in the polls, this examination of corruption and deceit couldn’t feel more timely.
— Radhika Seth, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2024
- She filmed the children playing.
- Television news crew members came to film the interview.
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But in the three days since it was filmed, the clip has taken on a life of its own.
— Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024 -
In the fourth and fifth videos, Baldwin stops filming to check on the safety of the crew.
— Chloe Melas, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023 -
Some of the attack was even filmed by Hunter's group, and the agency shared the video online.
— Kerry Breen, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2023 -
Sinon spends around six hours a day filming live streams and goes live around two to three times a day.
— Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023 -
The crew let Tung drive around listening to the song over and over while filming the scene in the early hours of the morning.
— Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023 -
The director filmed a cameo with Ford for his 1982 classic E.T.
— Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023 -
Many of those movies will be filmed with the company’s cameras and lenses, as well.
— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024 -
In the end, filming Yellowstone twice a year simply wouldn’t work for him.
— Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2023 -
The Fieri came in for two days of intensive work, filming his portion of three episodes each day.
— Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 8 June 2023 -
The directors filmed for a full year, shooting more than four hundred hours of footage.
— John Hoffman, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024 -
Among the tasks Tweto was filmed tackling were airdrops, in which gear is dropped off a plane midflight.
— Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 18 June 2023 -
In the first clip shared, James filmed the spherical interior of the venue before the band played.
— Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023 -
The look of the scenes in the prison is flat and drained of color and life, while the girls are filmed in a way that evocatively captures the hope of their lives, dreamy and ominous at once.
— Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024 -
Ahead of a June 2 premiere date, Glover’s cameo was one of the finishing touches on the movie, filmed just two months prior on April 5.
— Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023 -
Martin Scorsese filmed the event, which was released in 1978 under the title The Last Waltz.
— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023 -
The only criteria for the video was to find a director who could fly us to New York and film it within the budget.
— Liza Lentini, SPIN, 15 June 2023 -
Hamas militants filmed the video and texted it to Yaakov’s siblings, Pessah said.
— Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023 -
For a movie that hardly requires any special effects, so much of it feels like it might as well have been filmed in front of a green screen.
— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 8 Mar. 2024 -
The exteriors, meanwhile, will film on location in the streets of Paris.
— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023 -
By Valerie Trapp What is the correct distance from which to film a dictator?
— Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2024 -
LaBeouf reveals that Mamet wants to film an adaptation of the play for the big screen, although those details are still being worked out.
— Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Oct. 2023 -
One of the young women is seen in the video attempting to block Lin from filming them, before returning to her seat.
— Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 8 Aug. 2023 -
But You's cast and crew faced while filming in Australia earlier this year.
— Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023 -
The message has a timestamp for Aug. 9, well before the Instagram callout was filmed.
— Natalie B. Compton, Sofia Andrade, Hannah Sampson, Gabe Hiatt, Reshma Kirpalani, Andrea Sachs, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2023 -
Selling Sunset also filmed here in episode three of season one.
— Michelle Duncan, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2023 -
The series, which is now filmed elsewhere, is currently in its 17th season.
— Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 26 July 2023 -
At the time, almost every comedy on air was filmed live in front of a studio audience—or at least pretended to be.
— Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2024 -
It was filmed in Seattle in 1991, as the city’s scruffy rock bands drifted, improbably, toward global superfame.
— Sam Anderson, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2024
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