To Each His Cinema (Various; 2007)

[criterionmaster]

Plot Outline: A collective film of 35 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.

Directed by:
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Olivier Assayas
Bille August
Jane Campion
Youssef Chahine
Kaige Chen
Michael Cimino
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
David Cronenberg
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne
Manoel de Oliveira
Raymond Depardon
Amos Gitai
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Aki Kaurismäki
Abbas Kiarostami
Takeshi Kitano
Andrei Konchalovsky
Claude Lelouch
Ken Loach
Nanni Moretti
Roman Polanski
Raoul Ruiz
Walter Salles
Elia Suleiman
Ming-liang Tsai
Gus Van Sant
Lars von Trier
Wim Wenders
Yimou Zhang
Atom Egoyan (segment "Artaud Double Bill")
Kar Wai Wong (segment "I Travelled 9000 km To Give It To You")

All I got to say is holy fuck. Look at that list of directors. What do you guys think about this film? And who do you think will make the best segment about cinema?

[captainofbeef]

I will definitely be seeing this. The most interesting segment (and probably the one that is going to be the best) is the one by Takeshi Kitano. Not my favorite director of all time by any stretch, but he always has interesting ideas, no matter what he does.

[ie]

Catchy title. Really rolls off the tongue...


Most should be worth a look. I know about a third of the directors on this list, so until you really know every single one and are able to compare them, you can't really ask which one will make the best segment, because who knows, that Angelopoulos guy might impress the hell out of you.

I doubt this will be widely released though.
Who would watch it besides movie buffs? What American kid, after having seen Blade of Glory would be like "k, who wants to see To Each His Cinema? It has segments by Kiarostami, Zhang-" "Are We Done Yet?"

[wkw]

Well, since it is just a collection of shorts, the budget for each would be low. It's obviously not meant to be a commercial film. Theodoros Angelopoulos is a director that really intrigues me.

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ie said:

Catchy title. Really rolls off the tongue...


Most should be worth a look. I know about a third of the directors on this list, so until you really know every single one and are able to compare them, you can't really ask which one will make the best segment, because who knows, that Angelopoulos guy might impress the hell out of you.

I doubt this will be widely released though.
Who would watch it besides movie buffs? What American kid, after having seen Blade of Glory would be like "k, who wants to see To Each His Cinema? It has segments by Kiarostami, Zhang-" "Are We Done Yet?"

Haha, yeah, the title just feels so weird, yet I like it. I believe the film will probably be known in its original language, as Chacun son cinéma, but I don't know, so I put the English title.

There are still a few I haven't heard of, yet, and then there are some others I really want to check out. I think, if anything, this film will turn us on to some new directors. Angelopoulos (sp?) is a director I have heard many times, and have wanted to check out. I think he did the film, Traveling Players (?), which I have heard mentioned as being a really great film, as well as others.

Yeah, we will probably have to catch this at an independent showing, or at a festival or something. It is stupid someone wouldn't want to see this, but I know everyone around here wouldn't, sadly enough. If they released it here I would say 100 people all together would go (if that).

wkw said:

Well, since it is just a collection of shorts, the budget for each would be low. It's obviously not meant to be a commercial film. Theodoros Angelopoulos is a director that really intrigues me.

Same here, as I said above. I need to check into some of his stuff.