Wednesday, September 5, 2018

What Is Cinema? (2013)

Director: Chuck Workman. 80 min. Not Rated. USA/France/Canada. Documentary.

The question excites any movie-lover. And how not enjoy a collage of some of the most mesmerizing images in movie history, as an answer to that question? The documentary employs quotes from some of cinema's grand-masters (e.g., Hitchcock claiming if a painter paints an apple beautifully, who cares if the apple is sweet or sour?) to make a case for avant-garde cinema, and how story in film is secondary, as long as you "project an emotion" - a message I humbly doubt, given that the livelihood of cinema depends on commercial success. But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the imagery.

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