cinematheque
/ˌsɪnɪməˈtɛk
/noun
1A film library or archive.The National Archives, the National Library and individual cinematheques were doing preservation work, but it was all government-funded....
- From the early 1990s, the director campaigned to create a cinematheque on the site of the museum's car park.
- It's dredged up from the imaginary cinematheque of Maddin's own mind.
2A small cinema.In 1999, a single print resurfaced in a French cinematheque, where it played in a regular late-night Rocky Horror Picture Show-style revue....
- Approximately 3,000 square metres of commercial, retail and function space were proposed, in addition to the cinematheque.
- After dinner we went back to Fed Square to see A Tale of Springtime screened at cinematheque as part of the Eric Rohmer retrospective that's taking place over the next few weeks.
Origin
1960s: from French cinémathèque, from cinéma 'cinema', on the pattern of bibliothèque 'library'.
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