06 September 2013 Factual 80 mins
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.
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Chantal Akerman as Self
Robert Altman as Self
David Lynch as Self
Costa-Gavras as Self
Robert Bresson as Self
Rob Epstein as Self
Abbas Kiarostami as Self
Mike Leigh as Self
Jonas Mekas as Self
Michael Moore as Self
Yvonne Rainer as Self
Kelly Reichardt as Self
Ken Jacobs as Self
Bill Viola as Self
Michael Winterbottom as Self
Akira Kurosawa as Self
Chuck Workman Director
Chuck Workman Writer
Peter Miller Sound Recordist
Tom Efinger Sound Editor
Kate Bilinski Sound Editor
Chuck Workman Editor
Charles S. Cohen Producer
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2013:
23 February 2013
In recent years it has become the handiest character of Mexican cinema: the Chilango fleeing the capital to the province in search of something.
12 February 2013
A suburban road is rocked when the boy who spends every day sat on the drive staring into space, vanishes.
17 February 2013
Natan tells the remarkable story of Bernard Natan, a Romanian immigrant who came to Paris in 1905 and was involved almost immediately with French cinema.
02 October 2013
After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.
25 December 2013
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
29 November 2013
When local heavy and ex-boxer Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie) agrees to hire his strip club out to lifelong friend and colleague Ian Levine (Michael Mckell) he soon discovers the private party involves child prostitution and trafficking, catering for wealthy paedophiles.
22 April 2013
Surfer Dane Reynolds takes a sharp look into the timeless style of Craig Anderson. A modern approach with hints to the past, Slow Dance follows Craig in and out of the water as he travels the world meeting up with heroes and friends in Australia, Chile, India, West Africa and Tahiti to name a few.
16 August 2013
Set in the not-so-distant future, A.J., a street kid, faces a childhood of abandonment while trying to survive.
04 June 2013
Hamdan is a former Palestinian leader who spent 15 years locked up in the old Israeli prisons. In 1973, while living in Syria, he was given a mission to smuggle explosives across the border and train a person he trusted.
29 November 2013
A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted “home” and confronts memories of growing up queer in an abusive, evangelical household.
10 December 2013
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28 June 2013
Owen Benjamin (Comedy Central Presents, Sullivan & Sons) shares his infinite wisdom and virtuosic musical ability, live from Austin, Texas.
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