cinema

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A fair point perhaps: someone like me appreciates Tamil masala because it testifies to the survival of something that no longer exists in Hindi cinema (i.e. my default is Hindi cinema, and as you know I am a "latecomer" to Tamil cinema).

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  1. noun A film or movie.
  2. noun A movie theater.
  3. noun Films or movies considered as a group.

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  • Underlining Mrs. DeSaye's unsuspected love of the cinema was a yellowing print in a silver frame showing an actor I did not recognize -- some sort of matinee idol with a jutting chin and a mustache only three hairs wide. —  EBSCOhost
  • A fair point perhaps: someone like me appreciates Tamil masala because it testifies to the survival of something that no longer exists in Hindi cinema (i.e. my default is Hindi cinema, and as you know I am a "latecomer" to Tamil cinema). —  NAACHGAANA
  • All-night shows of the sort once mounted by London's Scala cinema are a rarity now: a pity, as this would be the best place to experience Sam Peckinpah's grisly 1974 pulp western thriller, now on rerelease. —  Film | guardian.co.uk
  • In many other cases the cinema has been an almost hidden, parallel activity, closely approaching the biographical work of many artists, as is the case of —  GreenCine Daily
  • Miami International Film Festival went into the home stretch this past week with its selection of Latin American cinema, just as —  GreenCine Daily
 

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  1. French cinéma, short for cinématographe; see cinematograph.
 

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