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film

[film] / fɪlm /


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take photographs
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She’s open to seeing Latinas being everything in TV and film, where can they exist in a world in which they can just be people who just happen to be Latinas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Both of them have latterly turned to personal projects, working with their wives -- film editor Tricia Cooke and actress Frances McDormand -- on movies such as "Honey Don't" and "The Tragedy of Macbeth".

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

And I should make it clear, as I tried to do in the film, that what we hear from him are actual audio recordings of him.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

That’s part of what makes “Hurricane Seasons,” an intimate new independent film about a Puerto Rican family returning home, feel so timely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Just moments before, in the building lobby, he’d handed a package of film to Janet Chisholm.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Both have been turned into disappointing live-action films before.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The buried plastic films remained in the forest soil for a full year, allowing the team to compare decomposition under natural conditions with the carefully monitored laboratory experiments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Aside from his stage work, Mandell appeared in several films, where he played understated characters grounded in his work in the theater of the absurd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Those titles are among the plethora of international and art-house films on the streamer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

In second grade, my mom took me to the theater to see R-rated films like Rain Man and Cocktail.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

After the anti-government M23 group took the key eastern regional capital Goma in January 2025, its forces were filmed escorting hundreds of Romanian paramilitaries out of the country via Rwanda.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

"Dear protesters, since you're being filmed without your consent, try using make-up to dodge surveillance/facial recognition cameras," she said on social media.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Last year, the novelist and television writer staffed the Netflix adaptation of “Assassin’s Creed,” which filmed in Rome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The Criterion Collection package also includes Kubrick’s three short films, archival interviews, and several documentaries about the director—including the revealing one made by Vivian Kubrick, who followed her dad around as he filmed “The Shining.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“Every James Bond movie has filmed on the lot going back to Dr. No in 1962,” Tru said while she drove.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Rodriguez, Ortiz and Gomez Fisher all agreed that filming most of the movie on the island was essential, not only creatively but also economically and culturally.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

In a 2020 interview with Nashville Lifestyles, Gifford explained that she had visited the city plenty of times throughout her career, recording albums, filming TV shows, and attending the CMA festival.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

“The Batman Part II” began filming in London in June after a number of previous delays while Reeves and Mattson Tomlin wrote the script.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

She is filming the scene in a busy Baghdad street on her phone, and the camera captures him resisting her attempts to open the door as she confronts him.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

So as much as I wanted to watch the rest of the filming, I picked up my basket and hurried on.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu


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