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What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?
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WHAT IS CINEMA?

Directed by Chuck Workman
United States, France, 2013
Documentary

Synopsis

A free-floating “survey course” of cinematic history, with clips running the gamut and prominent practitioners — David Lynch, Mike Leigh, Jonas Mekas, and (archivally) Hitchcock and Bresson — offering their answer to the question posed by the title.

Synopsis

A free-floating “survey course” of cinematic history, with clips running the gamut and prominent practitioners — David Lynch, Mike Leigh, Jonas Mekas, and (archivally) Hitchcock and Bresson — offering their answer to the question posed by the title.