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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workma's documentary WHAT IS CINEMA? tackles the question of its title through over 100 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 and others, and with archival interviews from Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock, Chantal Akerman 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 go, and should go, in the future.

2015 · 1h 20m
Director Chuck Workman

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What Is Cinema?

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workma's documentary WHAT IS CINEMA? tackles the question of its title through over 100 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 and others, and with archival interviews from Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock, Chantal Akerman 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 go, and should go, in the future.

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Studio
Search Engine Films
Released
2015
Run Time
1 hr 20 min
Rated
14A Nudity, Coarse Language
Region of Origin
United States
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Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩)

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English (CC)

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Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.