To Each His Own Cinema

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To Each His Own Cinema
DVD cover of To Each His Own Cinema
Produced by	Gilles Jacob
Release date(s)	Cannes Film Festival: May 20, 2007 (2007-05-20)
Running time	119 minutes
Country	France
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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. The film is a collection of 34 short films, each 3 minutes in length, by 36 acclaimed directors. Representing 5 continents and 25 countries, the filmmakers were invited to express "their state of mind of the moment as inspired by the motion picture theatre"^[1].

1 Distribution
- 1.1 Premier
- 1.2 DVD release
2 Short films
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Distribution

[edit] Premier

To Each His Own Cinema premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 20 2007 and was televised on the same night in France on Canal+.^[2] David Lynch's contribution, Absurda, was not ready in time and was instead shown before Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights on the festival's opening night.^[3]

[edit] DVD release

Two DVD versions of the film are available, both Region 2: one released by StudioCanal on May 25, 2007^[2]^[4], the other released by Pyramide Distribution on October 31, 2007^[5]. World Cinema by Joel and Ethan Coen is not included on the StudioCanal DVD^[6] nor listed on the Pyramide DVD. David Lynch's Absurda is also not present on the StudioCanal DVD.

[edit] Short films

Raymond Depardon – Cinéma d'été (Open-Air Cinema)
Takeshi Kitano – One Fine Day
Theo Angelopoulos – Trois minutes (Three Minutes)
Andrei Konchalovsky – Dans le noir (In the Dark)
Nanni Moretti – Diaro di uno spettatore (Diary of a Moviegoer)
Hou Hsiao-hsien – The Electric Princess House
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne – Dans l'obscurité (Darkness)
Joel and Ethan Coen – World Cinema
Alejandro González Iñárritu – Anna
Zhang Yimou – En regardant le film (Movie Night)
Amos Gitai – Le Dibbouk de Haifa (The Dybbuk of Haifa)
Jane Campion – The Lady Bug
Atom Egoyan – Artaud Double Bill
Aki Kaurismäki – La Fonderie (The Foundry)
Olivier Assayas – Recrudescence (Upsurge)
Youssef Chahine – 47 ans après (47 Years Later)
Tsai Ming-liang – It's a Dream
Lars von Trier – Occupations

Raoul Ruiz – Le Don (The Gift)
Claude Lelouch – Cinéma de boulevard (The Cinema Around the Corner)
Gus Van Sant – First Kiss
Roman Polanski – Cinéma érotique
Michael Cimino – No Translation Needed
David Cronenberg – At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World
Wong Kar Wai – I Travelled 9000 km To Give It To You
Abbas Kiarostami – Where Is My Romeo?
Bille August – The Last Dating Show
Elia Suleiman – Irtebak (Awkward)
Manoel de Oliveira – Rencontre unique (Sole Meeting)
Walter Salles – À 8 944 km de Cannes (5,557 Miles From Cannes)
Wim Wenders – War in Peace
Chen Kaige – Zhanxiou Village
Ken Loach – Happy Ending
David Lynch – Absurda