What Is Cinema?

Synopsis

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.

Details

Director

Chuck Workman

Release

September 6, 2013

Status

Released

Country

United States of America, France, Canada

Runtime

1h 20m

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Where to watch

Streaming data by JustWatch

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

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