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.
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Genre: Documentary, History
Director: Chuck Workman
Actors: Abbas Kiarostami, Alfred Hitchcock, Chantal Akerman, Costa-Gavras, James Franco, John Ford, Ken Jacobs, Peter Bogdanovich, Rob Epstein, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson
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