“Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” That’s the question Wim Wenders posed to a selection of leading filmmakers—including Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, and Michelangelo Antonioni—at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival in his probing documentary ROOM 666. Forty years later, Lubna Playoust puts the same question to a new generation of directors—among them Claire Denis, David Cronenberg, and Lynne Ramsay—in her thought-provoking homage ROOM 999. Taken together, these insightful works form a fascinating reflection on the evolving economic and technological challenges of filmmaking, the meaning and relevance of cinema in the modern world, and the relationship between artists and their craft.