Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of movies; cinematic.
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- adjective nonstandard of or relating to
movies ;cinematic
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Examples
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AMPAS stands for Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. when weighing the most significant points in filmic arts and sciences I can see a lot of people considering Avatar as the best of 2009. heropower
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If there were a way to make live video "filmic" - give it the richness, the grain, and the flickering quality of a regularly filmed series, I promise these live stunts will sing.
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If there were a way to make live video "filmic" - give it the richness, the grain, and the flickering quality of a regularly filmed series, I promise these live stunts will sing.
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I suppose that since it’s so new it is tough to decide how it fits in filmic history.
AFI’s Ten Top Tens: Science Fiction | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008
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Ironically, showing moviegoers the lighter side of cancer is one of the reasons screenwriter Will Reiser, on whom Adam's character in 50/50 is based, wrote the script: to break a filmic taboo.
Red Room: Lori Hope: Cancer Loves Seth Rogen and Me Red Room 2011
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Ironically, showing moviegoers the lighter side of cancer is one of the reasons screenwriter Will Reiser, on whom Adam's character in 50/50 is based, wrote the script: to break a filmic taboo.
Red Room: Lori Hope: Cancer Loves Seth Rogen and Me Red Room 2011
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Nick Pinkerton for indieWIRE: "Puccini deliberately positions itself in the lineage of the screwball comedy ... but any given episode of in-its-prime Gilmore Girls does that legacy more honor, not to mention shows more 'filmic' chops."
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And even more especially if you like intelligent visual and verbal realism and narrative meandering which is, of course, of a piece with that kind of filmic realism!
Archive 2006-04-01 Becca 2006
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And even more especially if you like intelligent visual and verbal realism and narrative meandering which is, of course, of a piece with that kind of filmic realism!
Friends with Money Becca 2006
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It's also interesting as a kind of filmic "road not taken" -- its formal and cinematic language would be bulldozed by the New Wave in just a few years.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005
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