Fare un Cinema or Fare un Film?

Je vais au cinéma.* Je fais un film.**

*I’m going to the movies (or cinema, if you’re from the UK).
**I am making a movie.

I suspect that in order to get the idea idiomatically correct, you’d need more than three words. Find a native speaker.

Italian is also one of those languages that has dozens of demotic dialects. Depending on where your dad is from, “fare un cinema” might be correct; in textbook Italian, “fare un film” might be technically correct.

Would you rather have it tattooed in your dad’s dialect or in textbook Italian?

thats pretty cool

Sorry. I was remembering the French, which seems very similar to Italian.

I wonder if this page explains it. It relates it to the phrase “fare il/un teatro” (“teatro” meaning “theatre”). I can’t understand much else.

I read one site that used the phrase to describe the making of cinema as a whole. Here’s the translation (the original Italian title was “Fare il Cinema, come, dove e perchè.”- “Making Cinema: How, where, and why?”)

Gosh, Italian is a beautiful language…

I’ll probably just get Cinema since that’s the way he’s always said it, and that’s what makes it cool to me. But I don’t want to look like a complete idiot when someone who knows Italian says, “You know that’s the wrong word, right?”

We’re Campanian (southwest, right above the ‘boot’), if that helps anyone. :)

Fare un cinema is an idiom (I suspect a regionalism) which means “to make confusion”, often used to describe a chaotic situation.