What is Cinema.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman's documentary WHAT IS CINEMA? tackles the question of its title through over 100 clips and new interviews with filmmakers such as Mike Leigh, Jonas Mekas, David Lynch, Robert Altman, Kelly Reichardt, Costa-Gavras, and Michael Moore. Featuring archiv...

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Format: Video
Language:English
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Cohen Film Collection, 2013.
Kanopy Streaming, 2018.
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Summary:Academy Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman's documentary WHAT IS CINEMA? tackles the question of its title through over 100 clips and new interviews with filmmakers such as Mike Leigh, Jonas Mekas, David Lynch, Robert Altman, Kelly Reichardt, Costa-Gavras, and Michael Moore. Featuring archival interviews from Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock, Chantal Akerman, Akira Kurosawa, Abbas Kiarostami, and more. Featuring 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.
Item Description:Title from title frames.
Physical Description:1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time:01:17:42
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.