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.

Cast

Chantal Akerman

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Robert Altman

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David Lynch

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Costa-Gavras

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Robert Bresson

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Rob Epstein

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Abbas Kiarostami

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Mike Leigh

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Jonas Mekas

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Michael Moore

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