What Is Cinema?
06/09/2013
1h 20m

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.
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


Michael Moore
Self


Yvonne Rainer
Self


Kelly Reichardt
Self


Ken Jacobs
Self


Bill Viola
Self


Michael Winterbottom
Self


Akira Kurosawa
Self


James Franco
Self


Alfred Hitchcock
Self
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