What Is Cinema? (2013)

What Is Cinema? (2013). 1h 20m | Not Rated

“With a relaxed and pensive pace, this didactic doc manages to cover in a fairly random way a good deal of this massive topic with grace and colour in 90mins. Iu0026#39;m quite shocked to find how few people have reviewed this on ImDb. I caught it on Talking Pictures UK freeview TV. Of course the answer to the titular question is not the point – to me cinema is really everything – our dreams, our reality, an exploration of our very our consciousness as human beings. The film intellectual Bazinu0026#39;s thoughts are weaved through the narrative. It does manage to disrupt the commercial functional intention of cinema and allows an obscure peek at familiar and some really weird clips. I loved Hitchcock saying about the content of film that one shouldnu0026#39;t care about whether the painteru0026#39;s apple included in a picture tasted sour or sweet – that it was way the way it was portrayed and the emotion that the whole composition evoked that mattered. But cinema is so varied, so we have more direct content-mongers like Michael Moore here too…truly thought-provoking stuff.”