What Is Cinema?
Sep 06 2013
•1h 20m
•Documentary
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.
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Chantal Akerman
Self
Robert Altman
Self
David Lynch
Self
Costa-Gavras
Self
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