

To Each His Own Cinema 2007
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Jane Campion, Luc Dardenne, Tsai Ming-liang, Raymond Depardon, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Atom Egoyan, Takeshi Kitano, Roman Polanski, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Gus Van Sant, Andrei Konchalovsky, Walter Salles, Manoel de Oliveira, Aki Kaurismäki, Raúl Ruiz, Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Ken Loach, Elia Suleiman, Claude Lelouch, David Lynch, Amos Gitai, Abbas Kiarostami, David Cronenberg, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-Wai, Youssef Chahine, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Zhang Yimou
- Comedy, Drama
- 100 min
A declaration of love on the big screen.
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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- contemplativerelentless
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- CRCulveron TMDB · Aug 20185/10
TO EACH HIS OWN CINEMA is a 2007 collection of 3-minute shorts by some 36 directors around the world on the theme of what cinema means to them. So many auteurs already make films about films inasmuch as they allude to classics, but here most of the shorts are actually set in cinemas, with audiences in rows of seating. You'll need to have a decent familiarity with the arthouse canon before watching this, though. It's fascinating how so many of the directors, regardless of what continent they hailed from, choose to have French New Wave films playing in the background as their stories are told. It opens with Raymond Depardon's "Open-Air Cinema", where a crowd of Egyptians watched an outdoor projection in Alexandria, and in spite of the unusual writing and the women's veils, they seem to be just like us. Zhang Yimou later does much the same in a Chinese village. One of the remarkable aspects of this collection are the similar ideas. Two stories deal with thieves stealing purses in dark cinemas. Three deal with the blind and how they perceive cinema. Many look back to childhood/earlier eras. Hou Hsiao-Hsien's short recreates 1950s Taiwan on an elaborate set to show the typical visit to
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Cast
- Golshifteh FarahaniWoman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)
- Taraneh AlidoostiSelf
- Pegah Ahangarani
- Vishka Asayesh
- David CronenbergThe Suicidal Man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew ...")
- Josh Brolin(segment "World cinema")
- Giorgi BabluaniThe thief (segment "Recrudescence")
- Leonid Alexeenko(segment "Irtebak")
- Dàvi AlvaradoBoy (segment "Anna")
- Cindy BeckettSupporting
Crew
- Theo AngelopoulosDirector
- Olivier AssayasDirector
- Bille AugustDirector
- Takeshi KitanoScreenplay
- Ethan CoenWriter
- Joel CoenWriter
- Zhang YimouWriter
- Paweł EdelmanDirector of Photography
- Emmanuel LubezkiDirector of Photography
- Zhao XiaodingDirector of Photography
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