To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

A declaration of love on the big screen.

Directed by Zhang Yimou, Theo Angelopoulos, Abbas Kiarostami, Claude Lelouch, Ethan Coen, Chen Kaige, Aki Kaurismäki, Walter Salles, Atom Egoyan, Joel Coen, Elia Suleiman, Michael Cimino, Raymond Depardon, Amos Gitai, Olivier Assayas, Takeshi Kitano, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Jane Campion, Raúl Ruiz, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Ken Loach, Tsai Ming-liang, David Cronenberg, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Bille August, Luc Dardenne, Andrei Konchalovsky, Gus Van Sant, Youssef Chahine, Manoel de Oliveira, Wong Kar-Wai

Produced by Elzévir Films, StudioCanal

2007100 min6.4 / 10

A celebratory, intellectually rich anthology that treats cinema itself as a subject of love and reflection across 33 distinct artistic visions.

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.

Questions people ask

  • Is To Each His Own Cinema scary? No. Less frightening than 98% of films.

  • Is To Each His Own Cinema violent? Barely. Less violent than 86% of films.

  • Is To Each His Own Cinema easy watching? Yes. More comforting than 82% of films.

  • Does To Each His Own Cinema end with hope? Yes. More hopeful than 81% of films.

  • Is To Each His Own Cinema sad? Not especially. Less sad than 73% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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Rarity96

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Surprise12

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Love40

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