What Is Cinema?

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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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Creators

Chuck Workman

director

Chuck Workman

writer

Cast

Chantal Akerman actor

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Robert Altman actor David Lynch actor Costa-Gavras actor Robert Bresson actor

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Rob Epstein actor Abbas Kiarostami actor Mike Leigh actor

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Jonas Mekas actor Michael Moore actor Yvonne Rainer actor Kelly Reichardt actor

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Ken Jacobs actor Bill Viola actor

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Michael Winterbottom actor Akira Kurosawa actor James Franco actor Alfred Hitchcock actor