What Is Cinema?
Documentary
★ 6.4/1020131h 20m
Director: Chuck Workman
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.
Runtime
1h 20m
Language
English
Released
Sep 6, 2013
Runtime
1h 20m
Language
English
Released
Sep 6, 2013
Cast
Chantal Akerman
Self
Robert Altman
Self
David Lynch
Self
Costa-Gavras
Self
Robert Bresson
Self
Rob Epstein
Self
Abbas Kiarostami
Self
Mike Leigh
Self
Jonas Mekas
Self
Michael Moore
Self
Yvonne Rainer
Self
Kelly Reichardt
Self
Ken Jacobs
Self
Bill Viola
Self
Michael Winterbottom
Self
Akira Kurosawa
Self
James Franco
Self
Alfred Hitchcock
Self
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