Definitions

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  • adverb nonstandard in a filmic manner

Etymologies

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filmic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • Maybe it is not as filmically significant as Raging Bull but it certainly is dearer to the audience than the latter.

    AFI’s Ten Top Tens: Sports | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008

  • At the root of it, Lost is all about a journey, both filmically and in the viewing experience it encourages.

    Obsessed With Film 2010

  • December 3rd, 2008 11:43 pm filmically, this is a piece of shit

    Why “Spider-Man 3″ Cannot Be Entirely Discounted : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2008

  • Attempts to filmically infuse this material with a Tolkien-esque sweep and drive will fail, as the thudding Prince Caspian — the second adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series — failed: the intimacy evaporated, the pageantry became stultifying, the audience went zzzz.

    Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

  • Attempts to filmically infuse this material with a Tolkien-esque sweep and drive will fail, as the thudding Prince Caspian — the second adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series — failed: the intimacy evaporated, the pageantry became stultifying, the audience went zzzz.

    Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

  • Attempts to filmically infuse this material with a Tolkien-esque sweep and drive will fail, as the thudding Prince Caspian — the second adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series — failed: the intimacy evaporated, the pageantry became stultifying, the audience went zzzz.

    Sex and the Single Wizard 2009

  • Movies really don’t get much more culturally or filmically significant than this one.

    AFI’s Ten Top Tens: Science Fiction | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008

  • In thinking about how to deal with this filmically, what came up for me was a scene of Jordan watching a home movie of Isabella on the beach, projected on a sheet he’s pegged up across a doorway.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Interview: Billy Mernit, Part 2 2008

  • If words on a page can’t compete any more with a film as regards creating a completely detailed and filmically accurate presentation of a story*, then writers will start to look for what writing can do that cinema can’t, and try and get at the reality of their subject through using superficially “unrealistic” techniques.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Friday writing blog: point of view. 2009

  • a mid-shot, thus filmically undermining their statements by including visual distractions within the camera frame.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

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