The word "screenings" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word to refer to a series of tests or viewings that take place for a particular purpose. For example, "The doctor recommended I get regular screenings to check for signs of disease."
The festival kicks off this Thursday at City Screen with an evening of screenings and a reception attended by Shadow Arts Minister Dan Jarvis, a former paratrooper and MP for Barnsley Central.
But the number of deaths began declining before PSA screening would have had much effect; screenings may also have identified cancers that were never going to become lethal, artificially raising survival figures.Critics of PSA testing, once regarded as heretics, have gained credibility recently, as a result of two big new studies.
People are drawing up budgets they know they can't recover, because a bigger budget means a bigger salary for the producer," says Álvaro Curiel, whose shoestring comedy "Acorazado" ("Battleship") was the toast of this year's Morelia festival.Imcine takes portable screens to neighbourhoods that lack cinemas, holding free screenings for Mexican flicks.
"You may go looking for anime on mainstream television," he said, "but anime's profile on mainstream UK television has always been relatively low – a few late-night screenings on Channel 4 and the occasional prime-time airing on Sci Fi".
By Tuesday a centre for diagnostics and observation built by Unicef was in place at the hospital, and screenings at the border with Senegal will be reinforced over the next days.
The festival schedules so many screenings that it is all but impossible to see every film from the main competition unless you jettison everything else (interviews, special events, filing copy, the films in sidebar competitions, sleeping).
Across the UK this weekend, crowds of fans will swarm to the first screenings of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the $250m £165mm) sequel that marks the start of this year's summer blockbuster season.
The red carpet screenings at Cannes, which are invitation only, have a strict dress code.
The pricey Q&A screenings that constituted the film's theatrical run probably didn't do much to court that crowd, but the film may yet reach its target demographic on DVD – or that most anarchistic of platforms, BitTorrent.
And where does this kind of thinking end – should alcohol be banned during all major sporting events, including mass family pub screenings, in case children see adults enjoying sport and alcohol at the same time?
Reports of women being turned away from screenings at Cannes because they were wearing flat shoes have not gone down well on Twitter.
