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the art or business of making a movie
a list of the top 100 stars of the silver screen
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Recent Examples of silver screen
The show even made its debut at the Venice Film Festival, further underlining the increasingly amorphous delineation between the small and silver screen.
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
The 16-piece collection for men and women features styles inspired by silver screen icons, including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor.
—Violet Goldstone, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
The star of stage, television and silver screen had a career spanning decades that included two Academy Award wins.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
What every film on this list has in common is that their horrors are more than just boogeymen and spirits projected upon a silver screen, but a conduit into which deeper real-life fears are made manifest.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
The 16-piece collection for men and women features styles inspired by silver screen icons, including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor.
—Violet Goldstone, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
The star of stage, television and silver screen had a career spanning decades that included two Academy Award wins.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
What every film on this list has in common is that their horrors are more than just boogeymen and spirits projected upon a silver screen, but a conduit into which deeper real-life fears are made manifest.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for silver screen
Recent Examples of Synonyms for silver screen
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Trump's Case On May 30, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the case, which involved a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Jr on the original 1997 horror film set, the weather caused them to be stuck in a tunnel for almost an hour.Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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Although Awakenings brought Sacks public attention (and eventually a Hollywood movie), his greatest success came after the publication of 1985’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a volume of clinical tales that humanized people with serious neurological disorders.Michael S. Roth, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Fathom Events, which puts movies, TV series, concerts and other events into movie theaters for limited runs, saw a record-breaking year for limited releases in 2024, with revenues increasing 45% to more than $145 million.Pat Saperstein, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
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She is fascinated by the technical side of filmmaking and uses her knowledge of how a shot is composed to help her perform.Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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Tribute to the Crafts honors those who are at the very heart of filmmaking and have exhibited extraordinary work behind the camera over the past year.Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 Dec. 2024
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Half-watching a big screen while scrolling social media on a smaller screen.Julia MacCary, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
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But Barton points to a theme in Knightley’s movie career where her big screen characters have two sides to them: a public persona and private wants, with the heart yearning for one thing and having to settle for another.Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20screen. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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