Relating to or characteristic of cinema or the making of movies; having the qualities of a film.
From cinematic + -al, or directly from cinema + -tical. Cinema comes from Greek kinema meaning 'motion' (from kinein 'to move'). The -tical suffix adds 'relating to' or 'having the nature of.'
Though 'cinematic' is the standard modern word, 'cinematical' appears in early 20th-century film criticism and shows how people were still figuring out vocabulary for this brand-new technology.
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