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.
- 6.5
- 2007
- Released
- 1h 40m
Golshifteh Farahani
Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?)
Taraneh Alidoosti
Self
Pegah Ahangarani
Vishka Asayesh
Josh Brolin
(segment "World cinema")
George Babluani
The thief (segment "Recrudescence")
Leonid Alexeenko
(segment "Irtebak")Dàvi Alvarado
Boy (segment "Anna")Cindy Beckett
SupportingCaju
Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")Castanha
Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes")Carl-Erik Calamnius
Ticket Man (segment "La Fonderie")Luisa Williams
Anna (segment "Anna")
Michel Piccoli
Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")
João Bénard da Costa
Pope Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique")
Antoine Chappey
Khrouchtchev's secretary (segment "Rencontre unique")
Farini Cheung Yui-Ling
The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To ...")
Casper Christensen
(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Audrey Dana
Claude Lelouch's mother (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Émilie Dequenne
The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité")
Lionel Dray
The boyfriend (segment "Recrudescence")
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
The husband (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Yosra El Lozy
The girl (segment "47 Ans Après")
Sara Forestier
The usherette (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Jacques Frantz
The annoying businessman (segment "Occupations")
Grant Heslov
(segment "World cinema")
Frank Hvam
(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Kristian Ibler
(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Karim Kassem
Young Youssef Chahine (segment "47 Ans Après")
Joachim Knop
(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Édith Le Merdy
Wife (segment "Cinéma érotique")
Michael Lonsdale
The old blind man (segment "Le Don")Li Man
The girl (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Lü Yulai
The projectionist (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Sara-Marie Maltha
(segment "The Last Dating Show")
Jeanne Moreau
The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes")
Denis Podalydès
The manager (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Brooke Smith
(segment "World cinema")
Yola Sanko
Crying Woman (segment "Dans le Noir")
Jérémie Segard
The thief (segment "Dans l'obscurité")Joe Siffleet
Son (segment "Happy Ending")
Zinedine Soualem
Claude Lelouch's father (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Hedie Tehrani
Michel Vuillermoz
The groaning man (segment "Cinéma de boulevard")
Bradley Walsh
Father (segment "Happy Ending")
Isabelle Adjani
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Anouk Aimée
(segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage)
Maury Chaykin
(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Willem Dafoe
(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Bryce Dallas Howard
(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Anna Karina
(segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage)
Kim Novak
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage)
Shu Qi
Pregnant Woman
Lee Kang-sheng
(segment: It’s A Dream)
Hamide Kheyrabadi
(segment: Where Is My Romeo?)Duarte d'Almeida
Pope John XXIII (segment: Rencontre unique (Sole Meeting))
Fan Wing
The Woman ( segment: I Travelled 9000 km to Give It to You)
Clayton Jacobson
Projectionist (segment: The Lady Bug)
Geneviève Lemon
Bug (segment: The Lady Bug)Gina Clayton
Commentator (segment: At the Suicide of the Last Jew…)
Jesse Collins
Commentator (segment: At the Suicide of the Last Jew…)Yves Corbet
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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