filmgoer

[film-goh-er]

noun

1. a person who attends motion-picture showings.

Word History and Origins

Origin of filmgoer¹

First recorded in 1915–20; film + goer

Example Sentences

"We would really like to watch other movies – maybe some comedies or some drama," is how one filmgoer, Natalia, put it on her way out of a screening of Kuba and Alyaska.

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Thus the differentiation in relationship the filmgoer may see in the lower-case dame portion of Smith’s career and image, and her aristocracy era.

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“And you’re like, holy s—. The music immediately makes itself apparent and sits right in front of the story. And I love that. It hearkens back to what movies used to do as I was coming of age as a filmgoer — that sense of it being a dilemma, something that you were going to have to think about and discuss and analyze.”

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Nolan argued that his passion for how his movies are made and displayed was justified by their influence over the viewer’s ultimate experience, even if the average filmgoer might not consciously register the difference.

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“This award belongs to every Indian actor, technician and filmgoer,” he wrote.

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