Example sentences of "[prep] the cinema " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also adapted Beryl Bainbridge 's THE DRESSMAKER for the cinema . |
| 2 | He played numerous cameo roles both on the large and the small screen : in The Charge of the Light Brigade and Hamlet for the cinema and in Hess , Disraeli and Suez for television . |
| 3 | Decalogue V and VI , A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love were made for the cinema . |
| 4 | The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity . |
| 5 | This originated from the story of Rip Van Winkle , which was filmed for the cinema at this site many years ago . |
| 6 | In all professional work for the cinema and television , shots are given standardised descriptions so that the camera operator knows exactly what is required . |
| 7 | In those days , if you stuck an advert for the cinema in your window , you got free tickets , and long before I ever understood any kind of plot , we 'd all troop down to the local flea pit and watch whatever was showing . |
| 8 | Film and video production ( for TV channels , but also for the cinema and other clients ) was assigned to the Societe Française de Production ( SFP ) ; research , training , sound and film archives , and a limited production role , to the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel ( INA ) . |
| 9 | She had been afraid that his suggestion , when it came , would have been too fraught with the unknown his room , perhaps , or else , God knows , a naked nightclub but as for the cinema , she could cope with that . |
| 10 | She could n't remember seeing such a cheerful crowd queuing for the cinema , and she took pleasure in their high spirits ; but she was glad that she had n't gone to the pictures . |
| 11 | He also saw the need to rewrite roles around the talents of the actors , as he did for Crawford , but there were limits to what he could do to make the most of the story for the cinema . |
| 12 | If a person bought a ticket for the cinema then he would probably have an irrevocable licence for the period of the film ( Hurst v Picture Theatres Ltd [ 1915 ] 1 KB 1 ) . |
| 13 | And if it is bad you get all the blame ’ — Playwright Larry Kramer on the disadvantages of writing for the cinema . |
| 14 | To make a long story short , I finally arranged for Service to record a brief message on tape which was flown to the Yukon and broadcast over loud-speakers during the cinema 's opening ceremonies . |
| 15 | As the cinema of froth , of romantic never-never-lands where poor girls fell in love with handsome officers , was now seen to have failed , filmmakers were increasingly willing to listen to Grierson 's expostulation : ‘ The damned thing has no roots , and what is the use of saying otherwise . ’ |
| 16 | But it is the family 's version which the texts privileges and recounts in full detail , for this view of events is entirely consistent with the cultural assumptions of an isolated rural people and , indeed , is regarded as more credible than wonders of modern technology , such as the cinema . |
| 17 | The British had added grounds for resentment as the cinema of their own country had been largely eclipsed by that of Hollywood . |
| 18 | Hollywood became big business as the cinema audiences grew , from an average of 40 million a week in 1922 , to 95 million in 1929 . |
| 19 | This newer cinematic approach summarises the essential difference between the cinema and the theatre , and in order to make good video one must re-learn this important truth . |
| 20 | So we started by asking our friends , who in turn asked others , until we were eventually inundated with testimonies from witnesses around the world who provided popular proof that there is something about the cinema that encourages , right there in the picture house , thoughts , feelings and behaviour in its patrons by turns enigmatic , terrifying , erotic , sad , hilarious and poetic , often triggered by uncanny interplay between screen image and real-time events in the auditorium and in the world beyond the muffled doors . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , a good many books about the cinema published today are pretty inaccurate and fairly useless , but two which are not are The British Film Institute 's Companion to the Western , edited by Ed Buscombe ( Andre Deutsch ) and Alain Silver ; and Elizabeth Ward 's Film Noir ( Bloomsbury ) . |
| 22 | It was ridiculous to pretend that there was anything immoral about the cinema . |
| 23 | For instance , we were talking about the cinema , and he told me that the average Hollywood film reaches a larger public than the Holy Scriptures . |
| 24 | Casting will take place at the Carlton Highland Hotel on Friday , March 5 , and the successful applicants will appear on screen later in the year to take about the cinema . |
| 25 | The New Wave was sweeping through the cinema . |
| 26 | ‘ Just for fun we set the computer route-finder for home after the cinema . ’ |
| 27 | After the cinema he had tea , walked the streets for an hour , had a couple of Guinnesses in a pub to keep out the sharp evening air , and ate a biriani . |
| 28 | As a precis this is pretentious , and The Cook & Co is full of the hyperbole and complicated allusions that identify a Greenaway work — The Draughtsman 's Contract , Drowning By Numbers , for example — but in the darkness of the cinema the film has a stomach-churning directness . |
| 29 | Speaking of the cinema in the Marie Lloyd piece , he accuses it of being ‘ rapid-breeding ’ and reducing its audience to a ‘ state of amorphous protoplasm ’ . |
| 30 | As in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ the growth of the cinema was juxtaposed against the primitive Melanesian life , so in the play the interest of Peter Quilpe and Celia Coplestone in Hollywood contrasts with the reality of the primitive world for which , eventually , Celia abandons the Hollywood dream . |