To Each His Own Cinema (2007) French
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To Each His Own Cinema (French: Chacun son cinéma ) is a 2007 French anthology film commissioned for the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. This film is a collection of 34 short films, each 3 minutes in length, by 36 acclaimed directors. Representing five continents and 25 countries, the filmmakers were invited to express "their state of mind of the moment as inspired by the motion picture theater".
This movie allows a quick peek into the minds of some of great filmmakers this world has ever seen that too in just three minutes. Just with these three elements consisting of a theater , a screen and audience every film maker listed below tried to capture their view on different forms of cinema viewing experience, or how they see it in future or in the past they way movies are projected, how much they missed, how they might have felt about it at a point in time or its just artistic freedom to show their dream. Filled with nostalgia, these shorts provide us a varied & weird nonstop experience every single time. I felt at some point that its hard to decode their thoughts as to realize that only they knew what they were trying to portray in there or it could be just nothing which only they have answers for. Dont think you will get too involved or connected with any of these shorts completely because just like a Clapboard, you will be awaken every few minutes once and it would be a start all over again. It would be like a flash of memory which we just could feel for that minute but not live through it. Enjoy these films and experience the artwork of these great masters. Its just cinema, cinema,cinema all over and a visual way of conveying their passion for it.
List of Short films from the directors
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1)Raymond Depardon – Cinéma d'été (Open-Air Cinema)
2)Takeshi Kitano – One Fine Day
3)Theo Angelopoulos – Trois minutes (Three Minutes)
4)Andrei Konchalovsky – Dans le noir (In the Dark)
5)Nanni Moretti – Diario di uno spettatore (Diary of a Moviegoer)
6)Hou Hsiao-Hsien – The Electric Princess Picture House
7)Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne – Dans l'obscurité (Darkness)
8)Joel and Ethan Coen – World Cinema
9)Alejandro González Iñárritu – Anna
10)Zhang Yimou – En regardant le film (Movie Night)
11)Amos Gitai – Le Dibbouk de Haifa (The Dybbuk of Haifa)
12)Jane Campion – The Lady Bug
13)Atom Egoyan – Artaud Double Bill
14)Aki Kaurismäki – La Fonderie (The Foundry)
15)Olivier Assayas – Recrudescence (Upsurge)
16)Youssef Chahine – 47 ans après (47 Years Later)
17)Tsai Ming-liang – It's a Dream
18)Lars von Trier – Occupations
19)Raoul Ruiz – Le Don (The Gift)
20)laude Lelouch – Cinéma de boulevard (The Cinema Around the Corner)
21)Gus Van Sant – First Kiss
22)Roman Polanski – Cinéma érotique
23)Michael Cimino – No Translation Needed
24)David Cronenberg – At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World
25)Wong Kar-wai – I Travelled 9000 km To Give It To You
26)Abbas Kiarostami – Where Is My Romeo?
27)Bille August – The Last Dating Show
28)Elia Suleiman – Irtebak (Awkward)
29)Manoel de Oliveira – Rencontre unique (Sole Meeting)
30)Walter Salles – À 8 944 km de Cannes (5,557 Miles From Cannes)
31)Wim Wenders – War in Peace
32)Chen Kaige – Zhanxiou Village
33)Ken Loach – Happy Ending
