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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  Chuck Workman

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  Chantal Akerman
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  Robert Altman
  Self
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  David Lynch
  Self
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  Costa-Gavras
  Self
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  Robert Bresson
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  Rob Epstein
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  Abbas Kiarostami
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  Mike Leigh
  Self
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  Jonas Mekas
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  Michael Moore
  Self
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  Yvonne Rainer
  Self
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  Kelly Reichardt
  Self
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  Ken Jacobs
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  Bill Viola
  Self
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  Michael Winterbottom
  Self
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  Akira Kurosawa
  Self
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  James Franco
  Self
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  Alfred Hitchcock
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