To Each His Own Cinema

2007 100 min ★ 6.5 Comedy, Drama

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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Cast

Golshifteh Farahani

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

Taraneh Alidoosti

Self

Pegah Ahangarani

Vishka Asayesh

David Cronenberg

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

Josh Brolin

(segment "World cinema")

Giorgi Babluani

The thief (segment "Recrudescence")

Leonid Alexeenko

(segment "Irtebak")

Dàvi Alvarado

Boy (segment "Anna")

Cindy Beckett

Supporting

Details

Director

Michael Cimino

Screenplay

Takeshi Kitano

Tagline

"A declaration of love on the big screen."

Status

Released

Original Language

FR

Production

Elzévir Films, StudioCanal, ARTE

Reviews

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CRCulver

August 14, 2018

★ 5/10

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...