cinematize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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to adapt (a novel, play, etc.) for motion pictures.
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Chiefly British. cinematograph.
Etymology
Origin of cinematize
Example Sentences
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The lure for music stars to cinematize their success will never grow old, and the movies — in need of high-wattage attractions as ever — always seem ready to oblige.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025
A biographical film almost inevitably tilts in sympathy with its subject; that’s why so many people object to any effort to cinematize Hitler’s life story or Stalin’s.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2010
Within the Law has been adapted for the screen minus the emendations and Hollywood inspirations usually deemed necessary to cinematize a play or story.
From Time Magazine Archive
Allegation: Paramount agreed to let the Jameses help them cinematize Bandit James's life, then backed out.
From Time Magazine Archive
I need to cinematize this, all of this.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
And a generation of modern viewers, their inner lives cinematized from childhood on, knows it.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2017
In Our Town, cinematized last spring, wise-eyed Frank Craven appeared on the screen as a rustic sage drawling philosophic comments on the passing events.
From Time Magazine Archive
Afterwards, the principals were cinematized, and the President of the Board of District Commissioners gave Mr. Harris the golden key of the Capital in a plush case.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stuff Jumping Out at You The Verne story has been cinematized a dozen or more times, including a TV movie earlier this year with Rick Schroder and Peter Fonda.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such experiences as this have a novel ring, but they are not totally unfamiliar ; others have undergone them, written about them, cinematized them.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Another Dance Film” is part of a fascinating trend to strip dance of artifice by cinematizing it in outdoor settings.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
The film is a dullish cinematizing of Shephard Traube's weakish story, Goose Step, portraying the sufferings in a concentration camp of a group of anti-Nazis of no particular politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
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