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To Each His Own Cinema

- 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.

Release Date : 2007-10-31

Language :DanishEnglishFinnishFrenchHebrewItalianJapanesePortugueseRussianSpanishYiddishMandarin

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Elzévir FilmsPyramide ProductionsStudioCanalLes Films Alain SardeCanal+CNCARTECannes Film FestivalL’OréalFNCFDigimageLVTAir France

Production Country : France

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name :

Original Name : Pegah Ahangarani

Gender : Female

Character Name : (segment "Irtebak")

Original Name : Leonid Alexeenko

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self

Original Name : Taraneh Alidoosti

Gender : Female

Character Name : Boy (segment "Anna")

Original Name : Dàvi Alvarado

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : ویشکا آسایش

Gender : Female

Character Name : The thief (segment "Recrudescence")

Original Name : George Babluani

Gender : Male

Character Name : Supporting

Original Name : Cindy Beckett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")

Original Name : Caju

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")

Original Name : Castanha

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ticket Man (segment "La Fonderie")

Original Name : Carl-Erik Calamnius

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "World cinema")

Original Name : Josh Brolin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Anna (segment "Anna")

Original Name : Luisa Williams

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")

Original Name : Michel Piccoli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pope Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique")

Original Name : João Bénard da Costa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Khrouchtchev's secretary (segment "Rencontre unique")

Original Name : Antoine Chappey

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To ...")

Original Name : Farini Cheung Yui-Ling

Gender : Female

Character Name : (segment "The Last Dating Show")

Original Name : Casper Christensen

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Suicidal Man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew ...")

Original Name : David Cronenberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Claude Lelouch's mother (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")

Original Name : Audrey Dana

Gender : Female

Character Name : The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité")

Original Name : Émilie Dequenne

Gender : Female

Character Name : The boyfriend (segment "Recrudescence")

Original Name : Lionel Dray

Gender : Male

Character Name : The husband (segment "Cinéma érotique")

Original Name : Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Gender : Male

Character Name : The girl (segment "47 Ans Après")

Original Name : Yosra El Lozy

Gender : Female

Character Name : The young woman (segment "Recrudescence")

Original Name : Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Gender : Female

Character Name : The usherette (segment "Cinéma érotique")

Original Name : Sara Forestier

Gender : Female

Character Name : The annoying businessman (segment "Occupations")

Original Name : Jacques Frantz

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "World cinema")

Original Name : Grant Heslov

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "The Last Dating Show")

Original Name : Frank Hvam

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "The Last Dating Show")

Original Name : Kristian Ibler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Youssef Chahine (segment "47 Ans Après")

Original Name : Karim Kassem

Gender : Male

Character Name : The projectionist (segment "Rencontre unique")

Original Name : ビートたけし

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "The Last Dating Show")

Original Name : Joachim Knop

Gender : Male

Character Name : Wife (segment "Cinéma érotique")

Original Name : Édith Le Merdy

Gender : Female

Character Name : The old blind man (segment "Le Don")

Original Name : Michael Lonsdale

Gender : Male

Character Name : The girl (segment "En Regardent le Film")

Original Name : Li Man

Gender : Female

Character Name : The projectionist (segment "En Regardent le Film")

Original Name : Lü Yulai

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "The Last Dating Show")

Original Name : Sara-Marie Maltha

Gender : Female

Character Name : The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes")

Original Name : Jeanne Moreau

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nanni Moretti (segment "Diario di uno spettatore")

Original Name : Nanni Moretti

Gender : Male

Character Name : The manager (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")

Original Name : Denis Podalydès

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "World cinema")

Original Name : Brooke Smith

Gender : Female

Character Name : Crying Woman (segment "Dans le Noir")

Original Name : Ёла Санько

Gender : Female

Character Name : The thief (segment "Dans l'obscurité")

Original Name : Jérémie Segard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Son (segment "Happy Ending")

Original Name : Joe Siffleet

Gender : Male

Character Name : Claude Lelouch's father (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")

Original Name : Zinedine Soualem

Gender : Male

Character Name : The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak")

Original Name : Elia Suleiman

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Hedie Tehrani

Gender : Female

Character Name : The filmmaker (segment "Occupations")

Original Name : Lars von Trier

Gender : Male

Character Name : The groaning man (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")

Original Name : Michel Vuillermoz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Father (segment "Happy Ending")

Original Name : Bradley Walsh

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)

Original Name : Isabelle Adjani

Gender : Female

Character Name : (segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)

Original Name : Anouk Aimée

Gender : Female

Character Name : (segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)

Original Name : Maury Chaykin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)

Original Name : Jean Cocteau

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)

Original Name : Willem Dafoe

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)

Original Name : Bryce Dallas Howard

Gender : Female

Character Name : (segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)

Original Name : Anna Karina

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)

Original Name : Kim Novak

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pregnant Woman

Original Name : 舒淇

Gender : Female

Character Name : Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)

Original Name : Golshifteh Farahani

Gender : Female

Character Name : (segment: It’s A Dream)

Original Name : Lee Kang-sheng

Gender : Male

Character Name : (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)

Original Name : Hamide Kheyrabadi

Gender : Female

Character Name : Pope John XXIII (segment: Rencontre unique (Sole Meeting))

Original Name : Duarte d'Almeida

Gender : Male

Character Name : The Woman ( segment: I Travelled 9000 km to Give It to You)

Original Name : Fan Wing

Gender : Male

Character Name : Miguel Cimino (segment: no translation needed)

Original Name : Michael Cimino

Gender : Male

Character Name : Projectionist (segment: The Lady Bug)

Original Name : Clayton Jacobson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bug (segment: The Lady Bug)

Original Name : Geneviève Lemon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Commentator (segment: At the Suicide of the Last Jew…)

Original Name : Gina Clayton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Commentator (segment: At the Suicide of the Last Jew…)

Original Name : Jesse Collins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cuban Singer (segment: No Translation Needed)

Original Name : Juliana Muñoz

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Yves Corbet

Gender : Male

Reviews

CRCulver

@CRCulver

2021-06-23

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 a cinema of his youth. Amos Gitai's film juxtaposes 1930s viewers of Yiddish cinema, a vibrant tradition destroyed by the Holocaust, with a modern Israeli audience in wartime. Youssef Chahine's looks back at his first visit to Cannes 47 years before. Some of the films deal with serious political themes: Amos Gitai on the Israeli-Arab relations, David Croneberg on anti-semitism, and Bille August with Danish–immigrant relations. However, there are also a number of overtly funny shorts, like Takeshi Kitano's, where a working man's chance to unwind by watching a film keeps getting interrupted by problems with the projector. In Lars Van Trier's contribution, Jacques Franz plays an annoying businessman who can't stop bragging about his success, though the extreme gore and violence that follows makes for very black humour. Elia Suleiman's is Buster Keatonish physical comedy in the modern world. Some shorts are notable for continuing an aesthetic that the director had already established in an earlier film. Kaurismäki's short is his usual style of an ostensibly contemporary setting, but with 1950s rock music and working class people who speak utterly deadpan. (Unusually, however, it uses none of his typical troupe of actors.) Abbas Kiarostami's "Where is My Romeo?" is a sort of follow-up to his experimental film SHIRIN, which showed only the faces of numerous women as they watched a classic Iranian tale of love; here these women are watching "Romeo and Juliet" instead. All in all, this proved a continuously engaging film, whose 2-hour running time just flew by for me. Nearly all the shorts were entertaining, the sole exceptions for me being Jane Campion's oddball short, where an adult woman plays an insect that vexes a projectionist, and Gus Van Sant's film with a randy teenager entering into the film being projected. Nothing here seems a must-see classic, but if you like a few of the directors here, you're sure to enjoy this set.