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.

CAST

Chuck Workman

Director

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

Chuck Workman

Director

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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