To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
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.
Directors:
Michael Cimino, Luc Dardenne, Atom Egoyan, Chen Kaige, Manoel de Oliveira, Bille August, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Walter Salles, Tsai Ming-liang, Theo Angelopoulos, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Olivier Assayas, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Roman Polanski, Gus Van Sant, Abbas Kiarostami, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Jane Campion, Raymond Depardon, Amos Gitai, Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Elia Suleiman, Aki Kaurismäki, Raúl Ruiz, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Ken Loach, Wim Wenders, Youssef Chahine, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Zhang Yimou.
Writer:
Takeshi Kitano
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Golshifteh Farahani as Woman in Cinema (segment: Where Is My Romeo?) |
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Taraneh Alidoosti as Self |
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Pegah Ahangarani as |
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Vishka Asayesh as |
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David Cronenberg as The Suicidal Man (segment "At the suicide of the last Jew ...") |
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Josh Brolin as (segment "World cinema") |
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Giorgi Babluani as The thief (segment "Recrudescence") |
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Leonid Alexeenko as (segment "Irtebak") |
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Dàvi Alvarado as Boy (segment "Anna") |
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Cindy Beckett as Supporting |
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Caju as Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes") |
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Castanha as Self (segment "À 8 944 km de Cannes") |
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Carl-Erik Calamnius as Ticket Man (segment "La Fonderie") |
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Luisa Williams as Anna (segment "Anna") |
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Michel Piccoli as Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique") |
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João Bénard da Costa as Pope Jean XXIII (segment "Rencontre unique") |
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Antoine Chappey as Khrouchtchev's secretary (segment "Rencontre unique") |
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Farini Cheung Yui-Ling as The Woman (segment "I Travelled 9000 kilometers To ...") |
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Casper Christensen as (segment "The Last Dating Show") |
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Audrey Dana as Claude Lelouch's mother (segment "Cinéma de boulevard") |
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Émilie Dequenne as The crying woman (segment "Dans l'obscurité") |
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Lionel Dray as The boyfriend (segment "Recrudescence") |
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Jean-Claude Dreyfus as The husband (segment "Cinéma érotique") |
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Yosra El Lozy as The girl (segment "47 Ans Après") |
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Deniz Gamze Ergüven as The young woman (segment "Recrudescence") |
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Sara Forestier as The usherette (segment "Cinéma érotique") |
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Jacques Frantz as The annoying businessman (segment "Occupations") |
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Grant Heslov as (segment "World cinema") |
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Frank Hvam as (segment "The Last Dating Show") |
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Kristian Ibler as (segment "The Last Dating Show") |
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Karim Kassem as Young Youssef Chahine (segment "47 Ans Après") |
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Takeshi Kitano as The projectionist (segment "Rencontre unique") |
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Joachim Knop as (segment "The Last Dating Show") |
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Édith Le Merdy as Wife (segment "Cinéma érotique") |
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Michael Lonsdale as The old blind man (segment "Le Don") |
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Li Man as The girl (segment "En Regardent le Film") |
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Lü Yulai as The projectionist (segment "En Regardent le Film") |
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Sara-Marie Maltha as (segment "The Last Dating Show") |
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Jeanne Moreau as The old woman / Self (segment "Trois Minutes") |
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Nanni Moretti as Nanni Moretti (segment "Diario di uno spettatore") |
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Denis Podalydès as The manager (segment "Cinéma de boulevard") |
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Brooke Smith as (segment "World cinema") |
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Yola Sanko as Crying Woman (segment "Dans le Noir") |
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Jérémie Segard as The thief (segment "Dans l'obscurité") |
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Joe Siffleet as Son (segment "Happy Ending") |
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Zinedine Soualem as Claude Lelouch's father (segment "Cinéma de boulevard") |
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Elia Suleiman as The filmmaker (segment "Irtebak") |
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Hedie Tehrani as |
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Lars von Trier as The filmmaker (segment "Occupations") |
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Michel Vuillermoz as The groaning man (segment "Cinéma de boulevard") |
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Bradley Walsh as Father (segment "Happy Ending") |
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Isabelle Adjani as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage) |
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Anouk Aimée as (segment "Cinéma de Boulevard") (archive footage) |
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Maury Chaykin as (segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage) |
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Jean Cocteau as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage) |
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Willem Dafoe as (segment "Occupations") (archive footage) |
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Bryce Dallas Howard as (segment "Occupations") (archive footage) |
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Anna Karina as (segment "Artaud Double Bill") (archive footage) |
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Kim Novak as Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage) |
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Shu Qi as Pregnant Woman |
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Lee Kang-sheng as (segment: It’s A Dream) |
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Hamide Kheyrabadi as (segment: Where Is My Romeo?) |
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Duarte d'Almeida as Pope John XXIII (segment: Rencontre unique (Sole Meeting)) |
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Fan Wing as The Woman ( segment: I Travelled 9000 km to Give It to You) |
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Michael Cimino as Miguel Cimino (segment: no translation needed) |
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Clayton Jacobson as Projectionist (segment: The Lady Bug) |
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Geneviève Lemon as Bug (segment: The Lady Bug) |
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Gina Clayton as Commentator (segment: At the Suicide of the Last Jew…) |
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Jesse Collins as Commentator (segment: At the Suicide of the Last Jew…) |
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Juliana Muñoz as Cuban Singer (segment: No Translation Needed) |
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Yves Corbet as |
| Production | Jacky Pang | Producer |
| Directing | Michael Cimino | Director |
| Directing | Luc Dardenne | Director |
| Directing | Atom Egoyan | Director |
| Directing | Chen Kaige | Director |
| Directing | Manoel de Oliveira | Director |
| Directing | Bille August | Director |
| Directing | Andrei Konchalovsky | Director |
| Directing | Claude Lelouch | Director |
| Directing | Walter Salles | Director |
| Directing | Tsai Ming-liang | Director |
| Directing | Theo Angelopoulos | Director |
| Directing | Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Director |
| Directing | Olivier Assayas | Director |
| Directing | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Director |
| Directing | Takeshi Kitano | Director |
| Directing | Roman Polanski | Director |
| Directing | Gus Van Sant | Director |
| Directing | Abbas Kiarostami | Director |
| Directing | David Cronenberg | Director |
| Directing | David Lynch | Director |
| Directing | Jane Campion | Director |
| Directing | Raymond Depardon | Director |
| Directing | Amos Gitai | Director |
| Directing | Nanni Moretti | Director |
| Directing | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Director |
| Directing | Elia Suleiman | Director |
| Directing | Aki Kaurismäki | Director |
| Directing | Raúl Ruiz | Director |
| Directing | Lars von Trier | Director |
| Directing | Wong Kar-Wai | Director |
| Directing | Ken Loach | Director |
| Directing | Wim Wenders | Director |
| Visual Effects | Chel White | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Writing | Takeshi Kitano | Screenplay |
| Camera | Paweł Edelman | Director of Photography |
| Crew | Mauro Pinheiro Jr. | Cinematography |
| Editing | Lívia Serpa | Editor |
| Directing | Youssef Chahine | Director |
| Directing | Ethan Coen | Director |
| Directing | Joel Coen | Director |
| Writing | Joel Coen | Writer |
| Writing | Ethan Coen | Writer |
| Directing | Zhang Yimou | Director |
| Production | Takio Yoshida | Producer |
| Production | Takeshi Kitano | Producer |
| Production | Aki Kaurismäki | Producer |
| Editing | Yannis Tsitsopoulos | Editor |
| Production | Gilles Jacob | Producer |
| Production | Alain Sarde | Producer |
| Production | Wong Kar-Wai | Producer |
| Art | Norihiro Isoda | Production Design |
| Editing | Olga Grinshpun | Editor |
| Editing | Bodil Kjærhauge | Editor |
| Camera | Emmanuel Lubezki | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Valérie Loiseleux | Editor |
| Production | Masayuki Mori | Producer |
| Editing | Marie-Hélène Dozo | Editor |
| Editing | Stephen Mirrione | Editor |
| Editing | Takeshi Kitano | Editor |
| Writing | Manoel de Oliveira | Writer |
| Production | David Allen Cress | Co-Producer |
| Writing | Luc Dardenne | Writer |
| Production | Peter G. Neil | Associate Producer |
| Writing | Zhang Yimou | Writer |
| Writing | Amos Gitai | Writer |
| Production | Jacques Arhex | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Dirk Brüel | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Andrei Konchalovsky | Writer |
| Writing | Olivier Assayas | Writer |
| Writing | Atom Egoyan | Writer |
| Production | Chan Ye-cheng | Executive Producer |
| Production | Gilles Ciment | Producer |
| Production | Avi Kleinberger | Line Producer |
| Production | Rebecca O'Brien | Producer |
| Writing | Nanni Moretti | Writer |
| Writing | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Writer |
| Production | Sandrine Brauer | Producer |
| Production | Dominique Combe | Line Producer |
| Production | Corinne Golden Weber | Producer |
| Camera | Hooman Behmanesh | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Ramses Marzouk | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Mauro Pinheiro Jr. | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Writer |
| Production | Laura Briand | Producer |
| Production | Alice Chan Wai-Chung | Line Producer |
| Camera | Marc-André Batigne | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Shinzi Suzuki | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Zou Jingzhi | Writer |
| Production | Sergei Davidoff | Producer |
| Production | Marie Masmonteil | Producer |
| Editing | Susan Shipton | Editor |
| Camera | Alessandro Pesci | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Nicholas de Pencier | Director of Photography |
| Editing | François Gédigier | Editor |
| Production | Katrine A. Sahlstrøm | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Francisco Oliveira | Director of Photography |
| Production | Robert Benmussa | Producer |
| Production | Roman Polanski | Producer |
| Camera | Eric Alan Edwards | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Francis Grumman | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Alberto Venzago | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Gabrielle Reed | Editor |
| Writing | Aki Kaurismäki | Writer |
| Writing | William Chang Suk-Ping | Writer |
| Camera | Jacques Bouquin | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Mariya Solovyova | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Giuseppe Leonetti | Editor |
| Camera | Pun-Leung Kwan | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Alain Marcoen | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Véronique Lange | Editor |
| Production | Serge Lalou | Producer |
| Camera | Greig Fraser | Director of Photography |
| Editing | William Chang Suk-Ping | Editor |
| Writing | Wong Kar-Wai | Writer |
| Production | Denis Carot | Producer |
| Editing | Luc Barnier | Editor |
| Camera | Zhao Xiaoding | Director of Photography |
| Production | Rachel Curl | Producer |
| Production | Leonard Tee | Producer |
| Production | Vincent Wang | Producer |
| Camera | Andreas Sinanos | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Zhao Xiaoshi | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Inti Briones | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Steven Lubensky | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Alexandre de Franceschi | Editor |
| Sound | Eleni Karaindrou | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Mychael Danna | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Howard Shore | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Cheng Long | Editor |
| Production | Samuel Faure | Producer |
| Production | Angelo Cosimano | Producer |
| Production | Juan Eveno | Producer |
| Camera | Karsten Jacobsen | Steadicam Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nelly Robin | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Fabio Perrone | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Semira Suspene | Costume Design |