Crossword clues for matinee
matinee
- Show time
- Daytime show
- Afternoon fare
- Daytime fare
- Daytime showing
- Sort of show
- Mid-afternoon fare
- Early movie
- Day play
- Word in a theater ad
- Theatergoer's option
- Show before dinner
- Show at noon, say
- Saturday offering
- Saturday afternoon play
- Play of the day
- Play in the afternoon
- Play before supper
- Nooner at a theater, say
- Movie choice
- Lower-priced ticket option, maybe
- It's put on during the day
- Idol's time
- Early performance
- Daytime theatrical performance
- Daytime theater show
- Bargain show, perhaps
- Afternoon theater performance
- Afternoon stage performance
- Special performance
- Play during the day
- Kind of idol
- Afternoon showing
- Theatergoer's choice
- Show for the early-to-bed crowd
- Preprandial performance
- Something never seen at night
- A theatrical performance held during the daytime (especially in the afternoon)
- Realto bargain
- Theater offering
- Early show
- Idol time?
- Broadway event
- Forenoon, in France
- ___ idol
- Setting for some idols
- Afternoon performance
- China cups in eastern show
- Show inmate reforming, getting parole at last
- Show couple consuming popular drug
- Show chum round home at start of evening
- Friend outside trendy theatre, finally, for afternoon show
- Friend comes around in time finally for early show
- Daytime performance
- Afternoon movie showing
- Broadway offering
- Theatrical performance
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"afternoon performance," 1848, from French matinée (musicale), from matinée "morning" (with a sense here of "daytime"), from matin "morning," from Old French matines (see matins). Originally as a French word in English; it lost its foreignness by late 19c.
Wiktionary
n. A showing of a movie or theatrical performance in the afternoon.
n. (alternative spelling of matinee English)
WordNet
n. a theatrical performance held during the daytime (especially in the afternoon)
Wikipedia
Matinee is a 1993 period comedy film directed by Joe Dante. It is a ensemble piece about a William Castle-type independent filmmaker, with the home front in the Cuban Missile Crisis as a backdrop. The film stars John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Lisa Jakub, Robert Picardo and Kellie Martin. A then-unknown Naomi Watts has a small role as a character in a film within the film. It was written by Jerico Stone and Charlie Haas, the latter portraying Mr. Elroy, a schoolteacher.
Matinée is the debut album from British singer-songwriter Jack Peñate. It was released on 8 October 2007 on XL Recordings. The album reached number one on the UK Indie Albums chart, and number seven on the UK Albums Chart. It also reached number 74 on the Irish Album's chart. The song "My Yvonne" features backing vocals by a young and then-unknown Adele.
In Argentina and other South American countries, a matinée is the schedule established by a discothèque open to the public teens (usually between 14 and 18) before midnight. It was introduced in the 1990s, because young people cannot go to many bars and clubs because they had trouble with the law by allowing entry to minors.
Matinée may refer to, in addition to being an afternoon or earlier in the day showing of a film or theatrical production,
- Matinée (album), an album by Jack Peñate
- Matinee (1993 film), an American period film by Joe Dante
- Matinee (2012 film), an Indian film by Aneesh Upasana
- " The Dark of the Matinée", also known as "Matinée", a song by Franz Ferdinand
- Matinée (disco), South American alcohol-free discothèque for teenagers
- Matinee, a machinima production software tool
Matinee is a 2012 Malayalam romantic film directed by Aneesh Upasana and starring Maqbool Salmaan and Mythili in the lead roles. The film marks the directorial debut of still photographer Aneesh Upasana while Mammootty's nephew Maqbool Salmaan plays his first lead role. The story is about two person's journey to filmdom and how their life changes on one Friday's matinée show.
The film's lead role is played by Maqbool Salmaan who had earlier appeared in a short role in A. K. Saajan's Asuravithu. Maqbool is the nephew of noted actor Mammootty. He is the son of Ibrahimkutty, the younger brother of Mammootty who had been a popular star in the miniscreen. The film is produced by AOPL Entertainment which also launched Mammootty's son Dulquer Salmaan earlier the year through Second Show.
Matinee released on 13 December to positive reviews from critics and audiences. The film was appreciated for its realistic approach and the performances by lead actors.
Usage examples of "matinee".
But a movie, theater, the real thing, with a kiddie matinee on Saturday with twelve cartoons and a Western and a chapter, and beautiful dinnerware given away to the ladies on Wednesday evening, and always a double feature plus cartoon plus newsreel plus coming attractions, changed twice a week on Wednesday and Sunday.
He belonged to the old school of fighters who looked the part, and in these days of pugilists who resemble matinee idols he had the appearance of an anachronism.
Betteredge said, when the anthropometrist had moved upstairs, "if you feel I was responsible, sir… For losing her, I mean—" "I believe, Betteredge, that I dispatched you earlier to a matinee, at the Garrick, to report on the acrobatic ladies of Manhattan, did I not?
Betteredge said, when the anthropometrist had moved upstairs, "if you feel I was responsible, sir For losing her, I mean" "I believe, Betteredge, that I dispatched you earlier to a matinee, at the Garrick, to report on the acrobatic ladies of Manhattan, did I not?
Even if he had paid Rudy back, the two of them had been friends since grade school, and it seemed (looking back) that Larry had always been a dime short for the Saturday matinee because he'd bought some licorice whips or a couple of candy bars on the way over to Rudy's, or borrowing a nickel to round out his school lunch money or getting seven cents to make up carfare.
A Greencoat Show matinee as well as an extra performance tonight, and we want two major feature films showing at the cinemas.
I'm sorry I have to be a stranger with hay fever and on my way to lunch and a matinee.
It was all girlish gewgaws: pandas and arcade Kewpie dolls, pinups of matinee idols and college pennants on the walls.
Following the cartoon and news matinée the next Saturday, Ted met Gavin in the usual place, beside the ostrich which Ted tried not to notice.
When Ted arrived for the matinée, Gavin was already waiting near the cinema.
That man suffering from neurofibromatosis, now as handsome as a matinee idol.
I went to a matinee screening in New Jersey with my then best friend, the late Brian Daley, who had just sold his first science-fiction novel and would go on to write a trilogy of Han Solo novels and radio dramatizations of the classic movies.
She waited at the stage door after the Saturday matinee and followed him to the shabby brownstone house where he lived untheatrically in a modest furnished room.