Cast and Crew of What Is Cinema?

Cast of
What Is Cinema?

About 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.

Full Cast of What Is Cinema?

Chantal Akerman
plays Self

Robert Altman
plays Self

David Lynch
plays Self

David Lynch as Self

David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, visual artist, musician, and writer. Kno...

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Costa-Gavras
plays Self

Robert Bresson
plays Self

Rob Epstein
plays Self

Abbas Kiarostami
plays Self

Mike Leigh
plays Self

Jonas Mekas
plays Self

Michael Moore
plays Self

Michael Moore as Self

Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator. He is the director and prod...

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Yvonne Rainer
plays Self

Kelly Reichardt
plays Self

Kelly Reichardt as Self

Kelly Reichardt (born March 3, 1964 in Miami, Florida) is an American film director and screenwriter. She is known fo...

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Ken Jacobs
plays Self

Bill Viola
plays Self

Michael Winterbottom
plays Self

Akira Kurosawa
plays Self

James Franco
plays Self

James Franco as Self

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he wa...

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Alfred Hitchcock
plays Self


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