What Is Cinema? (2013)

Name: What Is Cinema?
Director: Chuck Workman
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2014-06-06
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Chantal Akerman, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Bresson

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, History

Amidst a constant stream of hundreds of film clips, dozens of filmmakers voice their opinions on the titular question while primarily looking beyond the Hollywood mainstream to independent, experimental, documentary and avant-garde films.

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Chantal Akerman

Self
Robert Altman

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(archive footage)
Peter Bogdanovich

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(voice) (archive footage)
Robert Bresson

Self

(archive footage)
Costa-Gavras

Self
Rob Epstein

Self
John Ford

Self

(archive footage)
James Franco

Self
Alfred Hitchcock

Self

(archive footage)
Ken Jacobs

Self
Abbas Kiarostami

Self
Akira Kurosawa

Self

(archive footage)
Mike Leigh

Self
Sidney Lumet

Self

(archive footage)
David Lynch

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22 December 2018 | malcolmgsw

| Boring and pointless

I started to watch this documentary and found it rather difficult not to say pointless to work out what the theme is.I gave it about 15 minutes then deleted it.

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Soundtracks

Prelude from 'Fahrenheit 451'
Written by Bernard Herrmann
Performed by Bernard Herrmann & Elmer Bernstein
courtesy of Milan Records

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Genres

Documentary | History

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Release Date:

6 June 2014

Language

English

Country of Origin

USA, France, Canada

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