Cinema may refer to:
- Film, motion pictures or movies
- Filmmaking, the process of making a film
- Movie theater, a building in which films are shown
- Cinema (2008 film) or Bommalattam, a Tamil film
- Cinema (TV channel), a defunct Scandinavian movie channel
- Cinema 4D, a 3D graphics application
In music:
- Cinema (band), a 1982 band formed by ex-Yes members Alan White and Chris Squire
- Cinema (The Cat Empire album)
- Cinema (Elaine Paige album)
- Cinema (Nazareth album), or the title song
- "Cinema" (Yes song)
- "Cinéma" (song), a song by Paola di Medico
- "Cinema" (Benny Benassi song)
- Cinema, an album by Cachorro Grande
- Cinema, an album by ICE MC, or the title song
- Cinéma, an orchestral composition by Erik Satie later arranged for piano duet by Darius Milhaud
Famous quotes containing the word cinema:
“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”
—Frederico Fellini (1920–1993)
“The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)