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Cinema of West Bengal
Cinema of West Bengal (Tollywood, based in Tollygunge, Kolkata): Bengali-language film industry dating to Hiralal Sen's 1898 films, first talkie Dena Paona (1931), New Theatres, Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali (1955), and a 2025 prime-time screening mandate.
Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) is Giuseppe Tornatore's 1988 Italian-French drama about a Sicilian boy and the projectionist Alfredo. It won the 1989 Cannes Grand Prize and the 1990 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, with an Ennio Morricone score.
Cinéma vérité
Cinéma vérité (cinéma direct) is a participatory documentary style from around 1960, coined by Rouch and Morin after Vertov's kinopravda, using light 16mm cameras and sync sound; distinct from Drew Associates' observational direct cinema.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus) is Marcelo Gomes's 2005 Brazilian debut feature, a road movie set in 1942 in the northeastern sertão, where a German aspirin salesman and a drought refugee screen films to sell medicine; it won prizes at Cannes and the São Paulo Mostra.
Cinemark Theatres
Cinemark Theatres is the Plano, Texas-based movie theater chain of Cinemark Holdings (NYSE: CNK), founded in 1984 by Lee Roy Mitchell; as of late 2025 it ran 496 theaters and 5,637 screens across 42 U.S. states and 13 Latin American countries.
CinemaScope
CinemaScope: Fox's 1953 anamorphic 35mm widescreen system, based on Chrétien's Hypergonar lens; 2.35:1 ratio, four-track stereo sound; later displaced by Panavision optics.
Cinematic techniques
Cinematic techniques are deliberate filmmaking craft choices across camera, lighting, sound, and editing that shape a film's look and meaning; also called film techniques, they range from continuity editing and deep focus to CGI and virtual production.
Cinematograph Act 1909
Cinematograph Act 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 30), UK statute licensing cinemas for fire safety with inflammable nitrate film; unintentionally became the legal basis for British film censorship via local authority licensing, until repealed by the Cinemas Act 1985.
Cinématographe
The Cinématographe was a combined camera, printer, and projector patented by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1895, used for the first public paid film screening, in Paris in December 1895.
Cinematographer
Cinematographer, also called director of photography (DP or DoP): chief of the camera and lighting crews on a film or TV production, deciding lenses, framing, exposure, and lighting. US median pay $74,990 (May 2025); distinct from the camera operator who executes shots.
Cinematography
Cinematography is the art and craft of filming motion pictures through camerawork, lighting, and framing, led by the director of photography. It spans the 1890 Kinetograph, 24 fps sound-era standards, film-to-digital transition, and the VistaVision revival.
Cinephilia
Cinephilia is the love of and enthusiasm for cinema as an art form. Also cinephile (French cinéphile); traced to the early 1910s Parisian film press, codified in Larousse 1928, theorized by Metz 1977, and declared dead by Sontag 1996.
Cineplex Entertainment
Cineplex Entertainment, the operating arm of Cineplex Inc. (TSX: CGX), is Canada's largest film exhibitor, formed in 2005 when Cineplex Galaxy acquired Famous Players, operating 1,606 screens in 154 theatres with about 74% of Canadian box office.
Cinépolis
Cinépolis is a Mexican cinema exhibition company, the largest in Mexico, founded in Morelia in 1971 and operating more than 6,700 screens across 19 countries.
Cineworld
Cineworld is a UK and Ireland cinema chain under the Regal Cineworld Group, founded in 1995, parent of Picturehouse, Cinema City, Yes Planet, and Regal; it listed in 2007, filed Chapter 11 in 2022, and delisted in 2023.
Circle (2015 film)
Circle is a 2015 American psychological science-fiction thriller written and directed by Aaron Hann and Mario Miscione, the directing debut for both, about fifty strangers forced to vote on who is killed.
Circle of Friends
Circle of Friends is a 1995 romantic comedy-drama directed by Pat O'Connor, adapted from Maeve Binchy's novel, starring Minnie Driver and Chris O'Donnell as Irish college students.
Cirkus (सर्कस) (film)
Cirkus (सर्कस) is a 2022 Hindi comedy directed by Rohit Shetty, starring Ranveer Singh in a double role; a remake of Gulzar's Angoor from The Comedy of Errors, it flopped with ₹35.65 crore India net and 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, also known as the Cirque Du Freak film, is a 2009 American vampire dark fantasy film directed by Paul Weitz.
Citizen (சிட்டிசன்) (film)
Citizen (சிட்டிசன்) is a 2001 Tamil action thriller directed by Saravana Subbiah, starring Ajith Kumar in multiple disguises with Meena, Vasundhara Das, and Nagma; a vigilante kidnaps three officials tied to the vanished village Athipatti.
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane (1941) is Orson Welles's RKO debut drama about press baron Charles Foster Kane and the word "Rosebud", known for Gregg Toland's deep-focus cinematography, the Hearst controversy, and its Sight & Sound poll reign.
Citizen of a Kind (시민덕희)
Citizen of a Kind (시민덕희) is a 2024 South Korean crime comedy-drama directed by Park Young-ju, starring Ra Mi-ran and Gong Myoung, based on the 2016 Kim Sung-ja voice-phishing case in Hwaseong; it sold about 1.72 million admissions.
Citizen Vigilante
Citizen Vigilante is a 2026 Uwe Boll action thriller starring Armie Hammer as Michael Sanders, an American vigilante targeting migrant criminals in a European city; blocked from German distribution, boosted by Elon Musk on X, and split between 14% critic and 95% audience scores.
Citizen X
Citizen X is a 1995 HBO television film by Chris Gerolmo, based on Robert Cullen's The Killer Department, dramatizing the Soviet hunt for serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, starring Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, and Jeffrey DeMunn.
Citizenfour
Citizenfour (2014) is Laura Poitras's Oscar-winning documentary, also known as Citizen Four, recording Edward Snowden's NSA leak disclosures in a Hong Kong hotel room with Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill.
City Heat
City Heat is a 1984 American action comedy crime film directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds as former partners in 1933 Kansas City.
City Hunter (シティーハンター) (2024 film)
City Hunter (シティーハンター) is Netflix's 2024 Japanese live-action action comedy of Tsukasa Hojo's manga, directed by Yuichi Sato, starring Ryohei Suzuki as Ryo Saeba, released April 25, 2024, with a 2027 sequel announced.
City Hunter (城市猎人) (film)
City Hunter (城市獵人, Sing si lip yan) is a 1993 Hong Kong action comedy directed by Wong Jing and starring Jackie Chan as private detective Ryo Saeba.
City Hunter: Angel Dust
City Hunter: Angel Dust (劇場版シティーハンター 天使の涙) is a 2023 Sunrise/Answer Studio anime film, the sequel to Shinjuku Private Eyes, opening Japan's City Hunter final chapter with Ryo Saeba versus Kaibara Shin.
City Lights
City Lights is Charlie Chaplin's 1931 silent romantic comedy, released by United Artists, in which the Tramp loves a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a rich man; it has synchronized music and sound effects but no dialogue, earned $5 million profit, and ranks #1 on AFI's romantic comedies list.