ADJ
long short exciting, good, interesting successful awful, bad, boring epic violent She thought the film far too violent to show to children X- rated silent black-and-white low-budget Hollywood, independent television, video adventure, children's, comedy, documentary, feature, gangster, horror, pornographic
VERB + FILM
see, watch go to (see), take sb to (see) We went to an awful film last night direct, make, produce, shoot She makes children's films. The film was shot on location in Kenya take film taken by security cameras cut, edit The film was heavily edited for screening on television distribute, release, screen, show The film was finally released after weeks of protest by religious groups ban, censor
FILM + VERB
be on, show There's an interesting film on at the local cinema come out, open, premiere The film came out last week be based on sth a film based on the novel by Charles Potter be called sth, be entitled sth a film entitled 'Bitter Moon' capture sth The film manages to capture the mood of the times contain sth, include sth The film contains explicit scenes of violence depict sth, present sth, represent sth, show sth The film depicts immense courage amid the horrors of war tell sth This film tells the remarkable story of a disabled actor feature sb, star sb The film stars Nicole Kidman as a nightclub singer record sth critic buff, fan premi e re censor, censorship screenplay, script music, score, soundtrack narrative scene stunt He was killed when a film stunt went wrong poster studio set They built a massive film set of an airport props adaptation, version the film version of the best-selling novel classic the film classic 'Fantasia' documentary, drama genre clip, footage, sequence report The news always contains several film reports series the 'Star Wars' film series archives, library business, company, industry mogul Tyrannical Hollywood film moguls ruled their stars' lives distributor making, production festival show awards camera, equipment, projector, recorder rights The scramble for the film rights to her next novel has already begun school, student
PREP
in a/the ~ There is a great car chase in the film on ~ They captured the incident on film ~ about a film about Queen Victoria ~ of They've just started shooting a film of the novel
PHRASES
the beginning/end of the film, be in films (= work in the film industry), a film with subtitles, the screening/showing of a film
ADJ
black-and-white, colour fast Fast film would be best for such action shots 35 millimetre, etc.
QUANT
length, reel, roll a roll of 35 millimetre film
VERB + FILM
load, put in remove, take out rewind develop, first powered flight deal with sth a film dealing with old age process I get my films developed open The film opens with a bird's-eye shot of London end
FILM + NOUN
crew, director, editor, maker, people, producer, team, unit, writer The film has plenty of what film people call 'bankability' world actor, actress, legend, star part, role career, debut, work credits His film credits (= the films he has made) as director include 'Mood Music' and 'Lies' . We stayed for the film credits (= the names of people involved in the making of) expose In the darkroom they found that only half the film had been exposed splice He spliced the two lengths of film together
VERB + FILM
be covered in/with The books were covered in a thin film of dust
PREP
~ of There was a fine film of sweat on her forehead