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I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a comedy film
▪ They were the most successful comedy films of all time.
a film crew
▪ The film crew were making a political documentary.
a film/art/music etc critic
▪ He became the chief music critic for the Herald Tribune.
a film/movie camera
▪ Karl trained the movie camera on him.
a film/movie director
▪ the film director Stephen Spielberg
a film/movie fan
▪ This book is a must for all film fans.
a film/music/dance/arts festival
▪ The movie won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
a film/music/poetry etc award
▪ the annual British music awards
a movie/film/screen/Hollywood actor
▪ the movie actor Brad Pitt
a sad story/song/film
▪ He had listened patiently to his client’s sad story about her awful life.
a television (film) crew
▪ A television crew were allowed to film the meeting.
a television film/movie (=a film that has been made to be shown on television, not in a cinema)
▪ Ford appeared in several television movies.
appear in a film/play
▪ She has already appeared in a number of films.
car/film/shoe etc maker
▪ a quality furniture maker
▪ a leading Japanese computer maker
feature film
film noir
film star
film/acting/directorial etc debut
▪ His Broadway debut was ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’.
funny story/joke/film etc
▪ Do you remember any funny stories about work?
independent film (=one not made or produced by a large film production company)
mass-market paperback/novel/film etc
▪ a mass-market paperback priced at $8.99
self-indulgent novel/film etc (=said when you think the book or film only expresses the author or director's own interests, which are not interesting to other people)
television/film/stage etc adaptation
▪ He’s working on a screen adaptation of his latest novel.
television/film/theatre producer
the film version (=a film of a book or play)
▪ He appeared in the film version of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'.
the film/music industry (=the work of producing films or music)
▪ She would really like to work in the music industry.
watch a programme/film/show
▪ They were watching a film on TV.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
independent
▪ The subject is contentious enough in all conscience - the independent film.
▪ No one could argue with the contention that 1996 was the year of the independent film.
▪ The independent film movement, broadly speaking, grew out of an art tradition.
▪ But he eventually migrated to Chicago, where he acted in independent films and theater.
▪ National Video Resources aims to help increase public access to high quality, independent film and video.
▪ Mr Afman built up a profitable portfolio of loans, mostly to small, independent film studios and heavily secured.
▪ And those vignettes were made by local college students working with an award-winning independent film director.
late
▪ Now she fears that her latest film, her masterwork, may threaten her ability to work there in the future.
▪ His latest film Peter's Friends is due out this week with Branagh serving as producer, director and star.
▪ They were late for the film and had to go all the way down to the second row.
▪ Derek Malcolm reviews Kevin Costner's latest film, and the other new releases.
▪ And a fairytale ending ... Speilberg's latest film to aid children's hospital.
▪ Interview: David Puttnam's enigma variations Puttnam's latest film is made for television.
short
▪ The stimulus material was a short silent comedy film made by Mack Sennet around 1925.
▪ In short, this film of which I dreamt was not a montage of standard scenes and stock characters.
▪ Wide Angle screening day A programme of innovative short films and videos made at Wide Angle this year.
▪ Disney hired him when he was 21 as a writer, based on a short film he had made as a student.
▪ A short film will be shown on Black and Decker prior to the tour followed by a question and answer session.
▪ The only black nominated was director Diane Houston for a live-action short film.
▪ The short is a film about sailing.
▪ Robert Benchley, a writer turned stand-up comedian who pioneered television-type comedy in his short films.
NOUN
crew
▪ The gunmen and the survivors who came here, the photographers and correspondents and film crews simply walked on to the theatrical stage.
▪ A film crew had it narrowed down to Ahwatukee or a spot near the Phoenix Zoo.
▪ And did the film crew make a difference?
▪ After Major League Baseball agreed to cooperate, the Giants allowed film crews access to the stadium.
▪ As their cameras rolled, the film crew looked on anxiously while Crawford drove the Rolls up the ramp.
▪ Neighbors, many of them familiar to Primo, and the film crew, were just standing around.
▪ Because she was used to humans our film crew was able to cut her free.
critic
▪ Vincent Canby, the influential New York Times film critic, has died aged 76.
▪ The film has gotten good reviews, but it has scared the wits out of some male film critics.
▪ Today we are a film critic.
▪ After the University of Montpellier he worked first as a film critic, then as a reporter in Paris.
▪ The two day forum will consider, amongst other issues, the current role of the film critic.
▪ Have new television channels, satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only?
director
▪ There are few film directors who can resist a good car chase.
▪ And sometimes, he even toys with his long-running fantasy of dropping out of the business and becoming a film director.
▪ So was film director Oliver Stone.
▪ Now the legendary film director wants Sam to fly to New York for a second interview next week.
▪ Cleese, 52, fell for her after his divorce two years ago from his second wife, film director Barbara Trentham.
▪ The usually private Sporty Spice posed hand-in-hand with film director Dan Cadan.
▪ This film director, Bella Kropotkin, was undoubtedly after him, and undoubtedly he would take advantage of it - tonight!
▪ By 1989 there were very few significant Marxist philosophers, critics, or film directors in Britain.
feature
▪ We want to make the first feature film with a laugh track.
▪ Fiona Fullerton, then only fifteen and in her third feature film, played Alice.
▪ All three feature films have been turned into prime-time series.
▪ A high-profile Hollywood feature film now runs about $ 50 million to produce.
▪ The early feature films took up society as the situation required.
▪ The first star of a Steven Spielberg feature film may not be a name you recognize.
industry
▪ An analogy with the film industry, or treatment as an entirely distinct medium requiring its own organization, was inappropriate.
▪ Figures for employment in the film industry are vague.
▪ While tightening control of film content, the government has opened the film industry to market forces in two ways.
▪ The film industry is obsessed with drugs.
maker
▪ Its footage is mainly licensed world-wide to film makers for inclusion in features and documentaries.
▪ Movie companies are understandably uptight about relinquishing control over how products are portrayed by film makers.
▪ For his documentary, Oxford film maker, Richard Stanley looked not only at how Oxfam works, but why it exists.
▪ But this time it's the plane's owners and pilots who've turned film makers.
▪ Voice over It's a chance for the film makers to make the most of the true Oxford experience.
▪ Eventually car chases became a clich, and film makers explored alternative transport in their quest for cinematic thrills.
▪ An initiative to improve the skills of local film makers was also piloted.
▪ The film makers say it shows routine insensitivity to livestock, but experts say they're wrong.
noir
▪ Tetchy, funny, ugly and clever, this replays the dynamic of a first-class film noir.
▪ Cinema verity, film noir, that kind of thing.
▪ The story is designed to be a modern-day film noir.
▪ Vanessa Vail must have polluted Daine's film noir universe.
▪ But, significantly, Softley brings in, as the plot encourages, stylistic elements of film noir.
producer
▪ It would be a film producer, an electronics company, a retailing outfit and a publishing house.
▪ Is there really any connection between Leonardo and Columbus apart from the sort imagined by flatulent film producers?
▪ Inspired by those ten minutes in Bullitt, film producers even tried extending the car chase to fill the whole film.
▪ The film producer Sam Goldwyn was informed that an actress contracted to his studio had had a baby.
▪ And Mellor willingly accepted her lavish hospitality - even though he was Arts Minister at the time and she was a film producer.
▪ Can this tightly-controlled society churn out inspired film producers?
▪ He replaces film producer David Putnam who is standing down after seven years in the position.
star
▪ Jacqui was as beautiful as any film star.
▪ They were all a bunch of spoiled, badly behaved film stars and he had no patience with any of them.
▪ A millionaires' row for the aristocracy, film stars and the kings of international business empires.
▪ His background hardly prepared him for a life of elegant luxury as a film star or obedience to the star system.
▪ Hedy Lamarr, the film star who was billed as the most beautiful woman in the world, has died aged 86.
▪ She ran off with a younger film star.
▪ The wireless and the cinema gave me such enjoyment that I decided I'd become an actor, a film star.
▪ The film Star Wars demonstrates this perfectly, both in sound and vision.
version
▪ A film version of J K Rowling's first novel is expected to boost sales.
▪ Meanwhile, the film version of Skipped Parts begins production this summer.
▪ It was like the search for the Holy Grail, but more like the Monty Python film version.
▪ Except for a film version of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, his film career was mainly an extension of his operetta activities.
▪ He was the first actor chosen for the film version, which Douglas produced.
▪ The offices are so old-fashioned that one was used as Scrooge's office in a recent film version of A Christmas Carol.
VERB
appear
▪ If strong women characters do appear in Hollywood film, this is no consolation for feminists.
▪ Neikrug is also gratified that Schell appeared in the film.
▪ He has now appeared in 60-odd films.
▪ As you select the photos you want to use, they appear on the film strips.
▪ Robin Quivers, Fred Norris and others from the morning show will appear in the film.
▪ But 19-year-old model Saffron Domini needed little persuasion to appear in a harrowing film about racism and violence.
▪ As Mike had feared, the chimps did appear on film rather like dark shadows lost in the leaves.
make
▪ Here everything that goes into making a roll of film is monitored, recorded and automatically adjusted.
▪ She was born there, she lived there until age 21, and she has made nine documentary films about the country.
▪ But I have made the films as I wanted them.
▪ It turns the essential artifice of this new delivery system into an asset, making the film seem a paean to plastic.
▪ I had never thought of making films.
▪ Four years in the making, the film is a jaw-dropping spectacle, with one bravura sequence topping the one before.
▪ Cleese has since sold his share of Video Arts for a reputed £7 million, but he still makes films for them.
▪ Oddly, this scene makes the film a good date movie, but not necessarily a good first date movie.
produce
▪ Production Once the script has been agreed, the agency selects the production company to produce the film.
▪ Dreyfuss also will produce the film.
▪ In this example, the marginal benefit of another film exceeds the marginal cost of producing another film.
▪ Leigh has an idiosyncratic style of filmmaking that produces quirky, layered films.
▪ Unlike a conventional photograph, an image of both sides of the ewer is produced on the radiographic film.
▪ It has also produced an increase in films shot overseas, with foreign casts.
▪ The tax on films is causing too few films to be produced.
▪ The application of the patina produces a thin black film.
see
▪ It reminded him of the zombies he had seen in the horror film at the Empire.
▪ Go to see foreign films together.
▪ It convinces you that you have to see this film.
▪ Tourists go for what they have seen in films or in photographs.
▪ They'd seen the film that summer at Abbotsfield.
▪ I was beginning to get scared even before I'd seen the film.
▪ I've seen a lot on film.
▪ But the idea that you have to see the original film is misplaced and outmoded.
shoot
▪ I shot film of them carrying Tho away.
▪ Similarly, there is now available a fundamental choice between shooting on film or video.
▪ Claire Raskind, publicist for Fish Tale Productions, which just finished shooting the film, declined comment.
▪ They had shot their own film and it somehow got mislaid.
▪ The students came up with the stories, molded the characters and then shot the short films.
▪ His criticism will fuel controversy about the book on the island, where a film starring Nicolas Cage is being shot.
▪ This afternoon I shot film on Highway 1, in a village south of Neak Luong.
show
▪ Through it, Donna could see the first of many wax tableaux showing famous film stars.
▪ I wish I could show you a film of a dunk I had in Milwaukee....
▪ But here my fourteen-year-old daughter was shown a film about it in school.
▪ Teachers can improve their own demonstration techniques by observing methods shown in films.
▪ Among other presentations, the workshop showed films of the pole balancer.
▪ Kirby did manage to show it at a film festival in Florence.
▪ Can a teacher be punished for showing an it-rated film to students?
watch
▪ We settle down to watch the next film.
▪ For two minutes he tried to settle into the movie, but it was like watching a film within a film.
▪ The gangs would want to watch the film, but occasionally also drag an usherette into the exit.
▪ Numerous households will want to watch the film either simultaneously or at overlapping times.
▪ But watching the films being edited down, I found myself studying neither Karajan nor the orchestra.
▪ I watch a lot of film, and there are guys who from time to time take it easy.
▪ I was also diverted, watching the film on video, by what she was writing on her official papers.
▪ Gray said he asked four of the men who live in Tuskegee to watch the film with him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
animated cartoon/film/feature etc
▪ All the energy and excitement in this live-action remake of the much-loved Disney animated film went into merchandizing and marketing.
▪ Application Discuss animated cartoons with your students.
▪ Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
▪ Give them the following information: Every time you see an animated cartoon you are seeing a series of pictures.
▪ The two animated films are the No. 1 and No. 2 top-selling movie videos of all time.
▪ There is a large selection of animated cartoons produced for children.
cult film/band/figure etc
▪ Brad Pitt in the cult film Fight Club was a fraudulent soap salesman.
▪ He became a cult figure in which notions of salvation by innocent suffering have a place.
▪ He is loved to the point of becoming a cult figure.
▪ He often introduces himself to boomer types as the B-string lyricist for that perennial underground cult band, the Grateful Dead.
▪ Healing spas were based on a local cult figure and the devotees underwent rituals which included bathing and communal eating.
▪ I start by telling him that he's quite the cult figure here in Annapolis, and he looks stunned.
▪ This, however, did not prevent him from becoming a cult figure among some of the Jacobins and other revolutionaries.
▪ Vanessa Nygaard is a cult figure waiting to happen, a gale-force personality blowing through Maples Pavilion.
fast film/lens
▪ Minerals giving very low intensity emission, such as quartz grains, required many minutes or even hours of exposure with fast films.
feel-good film/programme/music etc
full-length play/book/film etc
▪ How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?
hard-boiled film/thriller/fiction etc
naughty jokes/magazines/films etc
slasher film/movie etc
▪ So it is saved from looking like a slasher movie with pretensions, or a sub-Joe Eszterhas chiller.
violent film/play/drama
▪ He thought of hitting Guy, saw himself doing it, like some violent film, slow-motion.
▪ His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play.
▪ They have a violent film then they have a violent advert.
wine/film/opera etc buff
▪ Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
▪ For the real film buff, however, the place to be has to be BlackStar.
▪ Inside, bartenders wearing leather harnesses serve beer in cans to an assortment of brutes, heathens, and opera buffs.
▪ It all started when wine buff Liz entered another competition in the Express.
▪ Rubbish, I hear all you wine buffs out there say.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For months the town was full of cameras, lighting and members of the film crew.
▪ Have you seen any good films lately?
▪ It's the usual sort of film about boy meets girl.
▪ Raymond was well-known in film and television.
▪ She wiped away the light film of sweat that had formed on her upper lip.
▪ Tarantino is one of the most famous film directors of our time.
▪ The film starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.
▪ the Hollywood film industry
▪ The story of Lawrence of Arabia was made into a feature film in 1962.
▪ They're showing some classic French films at the Rialto.
▪ What's your favourite James Bond film?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Given his style of working, his new film had to be a particular challenge.
▪ I was making a children's film nearby.
▪ In the book and the film Mr Suharto appears egocentric and opinionated.
▪ The highlights films erode appreciation for the various beauties of the game, some of which are small and patient.
▪ The naturalness and energy in Fields' performances made these films popular with both middle-class and working-class audiences.
▪ Well, no film was ever made that way.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
camera
▪ The stunt took two years to perfect, and the team used a series of remote cameras to film every breath-taking second.
▪ Then came the day that bought a video camera and filmed me ironing.
▪ But in the second half when the Glenavon fans were creating trouble the cameras did not film them!
▪ There is just one television camera for filming.
crew
▪ They can also send out crews quite easily to film their parliament or people.
movie
▪ Before then, the Beatles squeezed recording into a schedule that included constant touring and the filming of two movies.
scene
▪ Reed delayed filming his scenes in the hope that Brando might change his mind, but finally he gave up and quit.
▪ He and his co-stars describe how scary it was filming the battle scenes in their new movie.
▪ Miss Perrie was about to film key scenes for Coronation Street when she was dramatically taken ill.
▪ They were rehearsed and filmed like scenes with dialogue.
series
▪ Sarah, whose show is a worldwide ratings hit, is now filming another series.
show
▪ End of October, and the day of filming the actual show at Granada's Manchester studios becomes reality.
▪ We recorded nearly every night after filming the television show.
video
▪ He is filmed by a video surveillance camera.
▪ The bungy jumping was filmed on video.
▪ He was filmed by video security cameras leaving the shops with two youths.
VERB
begin
▪ Now that I had found my silver-grey subject I could begin filming.
▪ The Matrix sequels are due to begin filming in California in March.
start
▪ When we started filming she was very shy but she got better as she went along and she picked up confidence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They filmed the movie off the west coast of Ireland.
▪ We need permission to film in some of those old churches.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He received 2,000 fan letters a week and, when filming, had no less than 18 stand-ins lined up.
▪ It's a very austere movie, filmed largely in semi-darkness and featuring a morose baroque soundtrack.
▪ One of their captors filmed the shootings with a video camera.
▪ The bungy jumping was filmed on video.

film

I. film¹ S1 W1 /fɪlm/ noun
[Language : Old English; Origin : filmen 'thin skin']
1. [COUNTABLE]
a story that is told using sound and moving pictures, shown at a cinema or on television SYN movie American English:
　 ▪ Have you seen any good films recently?
film about
　 ▪ a film about a young dancer

2. [UNCOUNTABLE]
moving pictures of real events that are shown on television or at a cinema:
　 ▪ newsreel film
　 ▪ the race to be first with film footage (=pictures) of news events

3. [UNCOUNTABLE]
the work of making films, considered as an art or a business:
　 ▪ I’m interested in photography and film.
　 ▪ the film industry
　 ▪ a background in film and animation

4. [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
the thin plastic used in a camera for taking photographs or recording moving pictures:
　 ▪ I shot five rolls of film on vacation.
record/capture/preserve something on film
　 ▪ The whole incident was recorded on film.

5. [SINGULAR]
a very thin layer of liquid, powder etc on the surface of something
film of
　 ▪ a film of oil on the surface of the water
⇨ clingfilm
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COLLOCATIONS
verbs
▪watch a film
　 ▪ He stayed in and watched a film on TV.
▪see a film
　 ▪ We saw a good film last night at the cinema.
▪appear in a film
　 ▪ She once appeared in a film with Al Pacino.
▪star in a film (=be one of the main characters in a film)
　 ▪ Robert Mitchum starred in a film called 'River of No Return' with Marilyn Monroe.
▪direct a film
　 ▪ The film was directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
▪edit a film
　 ▪ The film was edited using the latest digital technology.
▪make/shoot a film
　 ▪ Sutton has been making a film for Australian television.
▪show/screen a film
　 ▪ The film is being shown in cinemas all across the country.
▪distribute a film
　 ▪ Warner Bros became the first major studio to distribute its films over the Internet.
▪a film stars/features somebody
　 ▪ The film starred Brad Pitt.
▪a film is released/comes out (=it is made available for people to see)
　 ▪ The film is due to come out in May.
▪a film is showing (also a film is on British English) (=it is being shown at a cinema)
　 ▪ The film is on at the Odeon Cinema.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + film
▪a horror/adventure/war film
　 ▪ He likes watching horror films.
▪a cowboy/gangster etc film
　 ▪ John Wayne was best-known for his roles in cowboy films.
▪a feature film (=a full-length film shown in the cinema)
　 ▪ Shane Meadows’ first feature film was 'TwentyFourSeven'.
▪a documentary film
　 ▪ He has just completed a documentary film about Thomas Jefferson.
▪an independent film (=a film made by a small film company)
　 ▪ Young directors began making small independent films.
▪a foreign-language film (=a film in a language that is not the audience’s native language)
　 ▪ Foreign-language films seldom do well at the box office.
▪a low-budget film
　 ▪ He’s currently producing his own low-budget film.
▪a big-budget film
　 ▪ a big-budget film aimed at the mass market
▪a silent film (=made in the time before films had sound)
　 ▪ a star of silent films
film + NOUN
▪the film industry
　 ▪ Scorsese is a highly respected figure in the film industry.
▪a film company/studio (=a company that produces films)
　 ▪ a European film company trying to compete with the major Hollywood studios
▪a film studio (=a special building where films are made)
　 ▪ Many of the scenes were shot in a film studio.
▪a film actor/star
　 ▪ John Voight, the American film star, is perhaps best known for his Oscar winning performance in 'Midnight Cowboy'.
▪a film director
　 ▪ This year’s festival includes a tribute to the French film director Bertrand Tavernier.
▪a film producer (=someone who controls the preparation of a film)
　 ▪ British film producer Alexander Korda decided to make a movie about Vienna.
▪a film maker (=someone who makes films, especially as a director)
　 ▪ He is one of several exciting young film makers.
▪a film soundtrack (=the recorded music for a film)
　 ▪ The film’s soundtrack was composed by Ennio Morricone.
▪film music
　 ▪ In 'La Strada', Nino Rota demonstrates the poetic power of film music.
▪a film festival
　 ▪ The Berlin Film Festival attracted more than 400 films from around the world.
▪a film premiere (=the first showing of a film)
　 ▪ Film premieres tend to be glamorous occasions.
▪a film crew/unit (=a group of people working together to make a film)
　 ▪ The film crew are making a documentary about village life.
▪a film camera
　 ▪ The company produces digital film cameras.
▪a film buff (=someone who is interested in films and knows a lot about them)
　 ▪ Film buffs will enjoy reading 'The 100 Best Movies of All Time'.
▪a film critic
　 ▪ The review was written by 'The Daily Telegraph’s' film critic.
▪a film school
　 ▪ He graduated from film school in 1998.
▪film studies
　 ▪ She’s studying for a diploma in film studies.
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THESAURUS
▪film especially British English, movie especially American English a series of images that tell a story and are shown in a cinema or on television :
　 ▪ What’s your favourite movie?
　 ▪ It won the award for best foreign film.
　 ▪ a made-for-TV movie
▪motion picture formal (also picture) a film – used especially by people who make films or by critics :
　 ▪ a major Hollywood motion picture
　 ▪ Tell us about your latest picture.
▪blockbuster informal a very successful film :
　 ▪ Steven Spielberg’s latest Hollywood blockbuster
▪flick informal a film – a very informal use :
　 ▪ an action flick
▪documentary a film that gives detailed information and facts about a particular subject :
　 ▪ a documentary on the rain forest
▪feature film a film made to be shown in cinemas :
　 ▪ The book was later made into a full-length feature film starring Sean Penn.
▪comedy a film intended to make people laugh :
　 ▪ Monroe appeared in a number of comedies.
▪romantic comedy (also romcom British English informal) a film about two people who are in love, which is intended to make the people who watch it feel happy :
　 ▪ ‘Notting Hill’ is a romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.
▪thriller an exciting film, especially about murder or serious crimes :
　 ▪ ‘The Birds’ is a classic Hitchcock thriller.
▪film noir a film that shows strong feelings of fear or evil and whose characters are often immoral, or these films in general :
　 ▪ ‘The Big Sleep’ is a classic Hollywood film noir.
▪action film/movie a film that has lots of fighting, explosions etc :
　 ▪ Stallone’s latest action movie
▪horror film/movie a frightening film about ghosts, murders etc :
　 ▪ She loves watching old horror movies.
▪western a film with cowboys in it :
　 ▪ John Wayne is famous for making westerns.
▪science fiction film/movie (also sci-fi film/movie informal) a film about imaginary events in the future or in outer space :
　 ▪ ‘2001’ is probably the most famous sci-fi movie ever made.
▪gangster film/movie a film about violent criminals
▪silent film/movie an old film without any sound :
　 ▪ The 1920s were the golden age of silent movies.
▪an independent film/movie a film made by a small film company
▪animated film/movie/cartoon a film with characters that are drawn or made using a computer :
　 ▪ One of his first animated films was ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’.
▪anime /ˈænɪmeɪ, -mə/ a type of Japanese animated film, which often has a science fiction story :
　 ▪ Miyazaki’s anime film ‘Spirited Away’ became an international success.
　 ▪ an anime character
▪CGI the use of computers to create characters and images in a film :
　 ▪ The film uses CGI.
　 ▪ Disney’s latest CGI movie
▪short a short film, usually shown before a longer movie in the cinema :
　 ▪ an animated short
▪trailer a series of short scenes from a film or programme, shown in order to advertise it in a cinema, on television etc :
　 ▪ We had to sit through all the trailers.

II. film² verb [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to use a camera to record a story or real events so that they can be shown in the cinema or on television:
　 ▪ The love scenes are sensitively filmed.
　 ▪ She’s in South Africa filming a documentary for the BBC.
　 ▪ a thriller filmed entirely on location in Washington

—filming noun [UNCOUNTABLE]:
　 ▪ Filming starts in October.
film over phrasal verb
if your eyes film over, they become covered with a thin layer of liquid