What Is Cinema?

What Is Cinema?

80 mins | Documentary | Sept. 6, 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.

What Is Cinema?

80 mins | Documentary | Sept. 6, 2013

What Is Cinema?
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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers
Original title What Is Cinema?
Directors Chuck Workman
Writers Chuck Workman

Cast

Chantal Akerman

as Self

Robert Altman

as Self

David Lynch

as Self

Costa-Gavras

as Self

Robert Bresson

as Self

Rob Epstein

as Self

Mike Leigh

as Self

Jonas Mekas

as Self

Michael Moore

as Self

Yvonne Rainer

as Self

Kelly Reichardt

as Self

Ken Jacobs

as Self

Bill Viola

as Self

Akira Kurosawa

as Self

James Franco

as Self