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2013
  • Documentary

What Is Cinema?

Runtime
1h 20m
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Countries
  • CA
  • Canada
  • FR
  • France
  • US
  • United States
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Languages
  • en
  • fr
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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Chuck Workman
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Cast
Chantal Akerman
Herself
Robert Altman
Himself
David Lynch
Himself
Costa-Gavras
Himself
Robert Bresson
Himself
Full cast

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  • Status
    Released
  • Release date
    Sept. 6, 2013
  • Original Language
    English

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