Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that makes movies, especially professionally.
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- noun A person who makes
movies as a profession; acinematographer
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Examples
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First, I have great faith that any movie with Captain Mal (erm, Nathan Fillion) will be fantastic. honestly, I think the best book-to-movie translations are those where the moviemaker is not trying to recreate the book onscreen.
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The French actress played a woman who mutilates her own genitals while struggling to cope with the loss of her only child in Danish moviemaker Lars von Trier's violent and graphic 2009 film.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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The moviemaker initial brought a comic book characters to a big screen in 2000's X-Men as well as returned for a 2003 sequel.
Archive 2010-01-01 admin 2010
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And for every YouTuber, blogger or independent moviemaker searching for answers to that oh-so-elusive monetization question, panelists offered some encouragement.
Jerry Lewis: Digital Media Experts Agree: It's the Story, Stupid Jerry Lewis 2011
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The moviemaker initial brought a comic book characters to a big screen in 2000's X-Men as well as returned for a 2003 sequel.
Director Returns To Jolie/depp Movie admin 2010
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Had Karl Marx been a moviemaker, his statement that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, the second time as farce, would have continued, "then as a western and finally as a musical".
Hollywood takes a safe bet for 2011 with the year of the repeat 2011
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Much has been written of the ingenious use made by this novice moviemaker of all the technical resources at a Hollywood movie studio, which Welles called "the biggest electric train set a boy ever had."
Rosebud and the Radio Tom Nolan 2011
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The president might have chosen to stop at a public screening of Gas Hole for Earth Day rather than hole up in a movie studio and Brentwood bar privately with moviemaker donors.
Jamie Court: Will the President Gridlock West LA as Prelude to Earth Day? He Should Read the Gas Station Signs Jamie Court 2011
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The Iranian-American moviemaker Cyrus Nowrasteh has brought his experience of TV documentaries to bear on the true story of an Iranian woman, Soraya M, framed as an adulterer by her husband in the early years of Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran and stoned to death by her fellow villagers.
The Stoning of Soraya M – review Philip French 2010
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Federico Fellini – moviemaker who was doing bizarre films of ancient Greece and Rome, of love and of fools way before the more recent films (Amarcord, Satyricon, 8 1/2)
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