Collocations for film - noun

long | short | exciting, good, interesting | successful | awful, bad, boring | epic | violent
She thought the film far too violent to show to children.

X-rated | silent | black-and-white | low-budget | Hollywood, independent | television, video | adventure, children''s, comedy, documentary, feature, gangster, horror, pornographic

see, watch | go to (see), take sb to (see)
We went to an awful film last night.

direct, make, produce, shoot
She makes children''s films. | The film was shot on location in Kenya.

take
film taken by security cameras

cut, edit
The film was heavily edited for screening on television.

distribute, release, screen, show
The film was finally released after weeks of protest by religious groups.

ban, censor

be on, show
There''s an interesting film on at the local cinema.

come out, open, premiere
The film came out last week.

be based on sth
a film based on the novel by Charles Potter

be called sth, be entitled sth
a film entitled ‘Bitter Moon’

capture sth
The film manages to capture the mood of the times.

contain sth, include sth
The film contains explicit scenes of violence.

depict sth, present sth, represent sth, show sth
The film depicts immense courage amid the horrors of war.

tell sth
This film tells the remarkable story of a disabled actor.

feature sb, star sb
The film stars Nicole Kidman as a nightclub singer.

record sth
a film recording the first powered flight

deal with sth
a film dealing with old age

open
The film opens with a bird''s-eye shot of London.

end

crew, director, editor, maker, people, producer, team, unit, writer
The film has plenty of what film people call ‘bankability’.

world | actor, actress, legend, star | part, role | career, debut, work | credits
His film credits (= the films he has made) as director include ‘Mood Music’ and ‘Lies’. | We stayed for the film credits (= the names of people involved in the making of a film) to see who the music was by.

critic | buff, fan | premiere | censor, censorship | screenplay, script | music, score, soundtrack | narrative | scene | stunt
He was killed when a film stunt went wrong.

poster | studio | set
They built a massive film set of an airport.

props | adaptation, version
the film version of the best-selling novel

classic
the film classic ‘Fantasia’

documentary, drama | genre | clip, footage, sequence | report
The news always contains several film reports.

series
the ‘Star Wars’ film series

archives, library | business, company, industry | mogul
Tyrannical Hollywood film moguls ruled their stars'' lives.

distributor | making, production | festival | show | awards | camera, equipment, projector, recorder | rights
The scramble for the film rights to her next novel has already begun.

school, student

in a/the ~
There is a great car chase in the film.

on ~
They captured the incident on film.

~ about
a film about Queen Victoria

~ of
They''ve just started shooting a film of the novel.

the beginning/end of the film, be in films
(= work in the film industry)

a film with subtitles, the screening/showing of a film

black-and-white, colour | fast
Fast film would be best for such action shots.

35 millimetre, etc.

length, reel, roll
a roll of 35 millimetre film

load, put in | remove, take out | rewind | develop, process
I get my films developed at a local shop.

expose
In the darkroom they found that only half the film had been exposed.

splice
He spliced the two lengths of film together.

fine, thin

be covered in/with
The books were covered in a thin film of dust.

~ of
There was a fine film of sweat on her forehead.