What Is Cinema?

6.4

80 minutes

9/6/2013

Overview

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 List

Chantal Akerman
as Self
Robert Altman
as Self
David Lynch
as Self
Costa-Gavras
as Self
Robert Bresson
as Self
Rob Epstein
as Self
Abbas Kiarostami
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
Michael Winterbottom
as Self
Akira Kurosawa
as Self
James Franco
as Self
Alfred Hitchcock
as Self