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    What Is Cinema?

    Poster of the movie What Is Cinema?
    2013     Documentary    
    USA/France/Canada
    1h 20min

    Chuck Workman's documentary tackles the question of its title through over a hundred clips and new interviews with Mike Leigh, Jonas Mekas, Yvonne Rainer, David Lynch, video artist Bill Viola, Robert Altman, Kelly Reichardt, Costa-Gavras, Ken Jacobs, Michael Moore, critic J. Hoberman, and others, and with archival interviews from Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock, Chantal Akerman, Akira Kurosawa, Abbas Kiarostami, and more. The film also includes commissioned sequences from experimental artists Lewis Klahr and Phil Solomon. What Is Cinema? not only asks a poignant question, but chronicles the best of filmmaking today and proposes where cinema will, and should, go in the future.

    Directed byChuck Workman
    Written byChuck Workman
    CompanyCohen Media GroupCohen Media GroupCohen Media Group

    Featuring

    Chantal Akerman
    Robert Altman
    Costa-Gavras
    James Franco
    Akira Kurosawa
    + MORE

    Video

    1:28

    Trailer

    9 years ago

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