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

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].

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[edit] Distribution

[edit] Premier

To Each His Own Cinema premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 20 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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jacob, Gilles. "To Each His Own Cinema, The 60th Anniversary Film of the Festival de Cannes". Cannes Film Festival. http://www.festival-cannes.com/index.php/en/archives/event/4440561. Retrieved 2007-12-28. 
  2. ^ a b McCarthy, Todd. "To Each His Own Cinema". Variety. http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=cannes2007&jump=review&reviewid=VE1117933700. Retrieved 2007-12-28. 
  3. ^ James, Alison; Gray, Timothy M. (2007-05-16). "Cannes rolls out red carpet". Variety. http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=Cannes2007&jump=story&id=1061&articleid=VR1117965077&cs=1. Retrieved 2007-12-30. 
  4. ^ "Chacun son cinéma - DVD - StudioCanal" (in French). StudioCanal. http://www.studiocanaldvd.com/fr/produit_6_scv_36947.php. Retrieved 2008-01-01. 
  5. ^ "Chacun son cinéma" (in French). allocine.fr. http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=126471.html. Retrieved 2008-01-01. 
  6. ^ Thompson, Anne (2007-05-31). "Chacun Son Cinema". Thompson On Hollywood. Variety. http://www.variety.com/blog/1400000340/post/1510010151.html. Retrieved 2008-01-01. 

[edit] External links

v • d • e
The films of Andrei Konchalovsky
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
House of Fools · To Each His Own Cinema (Segment: "Dans le Noir") · Gloss · Nutcracker: The Untold Story · The Forbidden City
Television
The Odyssey (1997) · The Lion in Winter (2003)
Productions
Moscow Chill (2007)}
Screenplays
The Steamroller and the Violin (1961) (with Andrei Tarkovsky) · Andrei Rublev (1966) (with Andrei Tarkovsky) · Tashkent - gorod khlebny (1968) · Song About Manshuk (1969) · Konets atamana (1970) · Zhdem tebya, paren... (1972) (with Eduard Tropinin) · The Seventh Bullet (1972) (with Fridrikh Gorenshtein) · Nechayannye radosti (1972) (with Fridrikh Gorenshtein and Rustam Khamdamov) · The Fierce One (1974) (with E. Tropinin) · A Slave of Love (1976) (with Fridrikh Gorenshtein) · Trans-Siberian Express (1977) (with Aleksandr Adabashyan and Nikita Mikhalkov) · Krov i pot (1978) (with Rodyon Tyurin)
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