What Is Cinema? (2013)
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.
Director: Chuck Workman
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Chantal Akerman as Self |
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Robert Altman as Self |
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David Lynch as Self |
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Costa-Gavras as Self |
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Robert Bresson as Self |
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Rob Epstein as Self |
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Abbas Kiarostami as Self |
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Mike Leigh as Self |
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Jonas Mekas as Self |
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Michael Moore as Self |
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Yvonne Rainer as Self |
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Kelly Reichardt as Self |
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Ken Jacobs as Self |
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Bill Viola as Self |
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Michael Winterbottom as Self |
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Akira Kurosawa as Self |
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James Franco as Self |
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Alfred Hitchcock as Self |
| Directing | Chuck Workman | Director |
| Writing | Chuck Workman | Writer |
| Sound | Peter Miller | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Tom Efinger | Sound Editor |
| Sound | Kate Bilinski | Sound Editor |
| Editing | Chuck Workman | Editor |
| Production | Charles S. Cohen | Producer |