What Is Cinema? (2013)

09/06/2013 (US) • Documentary • 1h 20m

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.

What Is Cinema? (2013)

09/06/2013 (US) • 1h 20m

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.

Top Billed 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

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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