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What Is Cinema?

6.5 average rating
6.5
French / 80 MIN. / 2013

The Genres

The 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.

The Cast

Chantal AkermanRobert AltmanDavid LynchCosta-GavrasRobert BressonRob EpsteinAbbas KiarostamiMike LeighJonas MekasMichael MooreYvonne RainerKelly ReichardtKen JacobsBill ViolaMichael WinterbottomAkira KurosawaJames FrancoAlfred Hitchcock

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