What Is Cinema?

1h 20m
Documentary
6.5

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
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

Crew

Chuck Workman
Director, Writer, Editor
Charles S. Cohen
Producer
Tom Efinger
Sound Editor
Kate Bilinski
Sound Editor
Peter Miller
Sound Recordist

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