What is Cinema? (2013) – Review

Review What is cinema

For more than 20 years Chuck Workman was editor for the Oscars. He was responsible for the various montages celebrating the medium of film. So in those years he has seen a lot of imagery and with this documentary he has created a visual essay in which he takes a look at the history of film, the development it has gone through while various directors are interviewed, like Alfred Hitchcock/Robert Altman (archival footage), David Lynch and Michael Moore, who tell what it means to them. All the while you are shown footage from maybe hundreds of movies. Continue reading