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Recent Examples of silver screen
To escape the horrors of his imprisonment, Molina imagines movies starring Aurora as a classic silver screen diva, including a role of the spider woman, who kills her prey with a kiss.
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Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
Suddenly, all across the page and silver screen, teenagers were fighting for their lives in apocalyptic settings.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
The show even made its debut at the Venice Film Festival, further underlining the increasingly amorphous delineation between the small and silver screen.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
The 16-piece collection for men and women features styles inspired by silver screen icons, including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor.
—Violet Goldstone, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
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Katcy Stephan, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
Suddenly, all across the page and silver screen, teenagers were fighting for their lives in apocalyptic settings.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
The show even made its debut at the Venice Film Festival, further underlining the increasingly amorphous delineation between the small and silver screen.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
The 16-piece collection for men and women features styles inspired by silver screen icons, including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor.
—Violet Goldstone, WWD, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for silver screen
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Threat to Landmarks: A blaze that erupted in the Hollywood Hills was threatening Los Angeles landmarks indelibly associated with the city’s glamour and the history of the American film industry.Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Trump's lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to delay his sentencing in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records connected to a $130,000 hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election.CBS News, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2025
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Combined, Focus and parent studio Universal landed a leading 32 nominations as distributor for such movies as The Brutalist (nine), Anora (seven), Wicked (seven), Nosferatu (five), The Wild Robot (three) and Monkey Man (one).Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025
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The closest analogy to what Whannell is trying to do here isn’t a werewolf movie so much as David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986), which turned a ’50s B-movie into a gory, gooey interpretation of the havoc disease wreaks on those suffering from both sides of the hospital bed.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
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Benegal began his career in advertising before transitioning to filmmaking, a move that would redefine Indian storytelling.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 Dec. 2024
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That, to me, is the best, most interesting part of filmmaking.Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Mickey 17 Release Date: March 7, 2025 Bong Joon Ho's first film since winning Best Picture with Parasite in 2020 is finally making its big screen debut after multiple delays.Billie Melissa, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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The 1994 big screen version of Farewell My Concubine, adapted from the 1985 novel of the same name, starred the late Leslie Chung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi.Lawrence Yee, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20screen. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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