What Is Cinema? (2013)

6.5/10 80 min Documentary

Overview

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.

Cast

Chantal Akerman

Self

Robert Altman

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David Lynch

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Costa-Gavras

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Robert Bresson

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Rob Epstein

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Abbas Kiarostami

Self

Mike Leigh

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Jonas Mekas

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Michael Moore

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Yvonne Rainer

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Kelly Reichardt

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Ken Jacobs

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Bill Viola

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Michael Winterbottom

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Akira Kurosawa

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James Franco

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Alfred Hitchcock

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