as in film
the art or business of making a movie
a master director who is one of the most revered figures of filmland
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Recent Examples of filmland
Assayas employs the standard tropes of vampiric lore — endless nights, sleepy days, doomed relationships that can only last so long — to poignantly parallel the lives of those bloodsucking monsters of filmland with the lives of those who inhabit them on screen.
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Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2022
This year, filmland ushered in a new Scream Queen: Jenna Ortega.
—Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2022
As an event in filmland the first unfolding of ‘The King of Kings’ on the screen took precedence even over the opening of a theater that in itself is a revelation of art and beauty.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2022
This year, filmland ushered in a new Scream Queen: Jenna Ortega.
—Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2022
As an event in filmland the first unfolding of ‘The King of Kings’ on the screen took precedence even over the opening of a theater that in itself is a revelation of art and beauty.
—Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filmland
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The cable category also saw an 18% bump in feature film viewing (after a 14% increase in November).—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
21 Jan. 2025
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Melanie rose in notoriety as an actress in the 1988 film Working Girl and earned an Oscar nomination for her performance.—
Luke Chinman,
People.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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Read more: The Human Cost of Binge-Watching True Crime Series Shackleton also steps back to reveal how his movie might have adhered to the tropes of the true crime genre.—
Esther Zuckerman,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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There are lots of great opportunities to dine; there are lots of awesome spaces on the boat; there’s shopping, there’s movies.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Jan. 2025
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At a glance, there was nothing special about the Burbank location of the Bob’s Big Boy chain, but over the course of seven years and several decades of filmmaking, Mr. Lynch had demonstrated that illuminating something ordinary could give it meaning and reveal its mysteries.—
Tejal Rao,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Negative space is the great underused resource in filmmaking.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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To escape the horrors of his imprisonment, Molina imagines movies starring Aurora as a classic silver screen diva, which includes the role of the spider woman, who kills her prey with a kiss.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2025
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Even the lounge noir aesthetic of those scenes—blood-red drapes, geometric flooring, tragic women done up like silver screen idols—has seeped into musicians’ visual lexicon.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2025
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She's been acting even longer, making her big screen debut in 1993 and starring in action, romance, and comedy classics including Maid in Manhattan and Out of Sight.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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The meeting began with one of the Adidas representatives flipping open a laptop and projecting a video onto a big screen.—
Pol Ballús,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Filmland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filmland. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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