Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Pre-Fest: Chacun Son Cinema


CHACUN SON CINEMA (2007, A Bunch of People) 41
The one I was really stoked for was inexplicably missing from this collection (The Coens Bros). Far to many of these shorts tread similar ground and very few actually distinguished themselves from the others. Youssef Chahine either misunderstood the assignment or simply thinks that he is cinema, but his short was a hilarious misfire. Michael Cimino is also in his own world and will hopefully just disappear without another filmed effort. The 41 is for the overall experience, but here is the breakdown for the individual shorts:
Recommended:
DIARY OF A MOVIEGOER (Nanni Moretti)
THE ELECTRIC PRINCESS PICTURE HOUSE (Hsaio-hsien Hou)
ARTAUD DOUBEL BILL (Atom Egoyan)
OCCUPATIONS (Lars Von Trier)
CINEMA EROTIQUE (Roman Polanski)
AWKWARD (Elia Suleiman)
HAPPY ENDING (Ken Loach)

Indifferent:
ONE FINE DAY (Takashi Kitano)
DANS LE NOIR (Andrei Konchalovsky)
DARKNESS (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
UPSURGE (Olivier Assayas)
THE CINEMA AROUND THE CORNER (Claude Lelouch)
AT THE SUICIDE OF THE LAST JEW IN THE WORLD IN THE LAST CINEMA IN THE WORLD (David Cronenberg)
I TRAVELLED 9000 KM TO GIVE IT TO YOU (Wong Kar Wai)

Not Recommended:
OPEN AIR CINEMA (Raymond Depardon)
TROIS MINUTES (Theodoros Angelopoulos)
ANNA (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
MOVIE NIGHT (Zhang Yimou)
LE DIBBOUK DE HAIFA (Amos Gitai)
THE LADY BUG (Jane Campion)
THE FOUNDRY (Aki Kaurismaki)
47 YEARS LATER (Youssef Chahine)
IT'S A DREAM (Tsai Ming-liang)
THE GIFT (Raoul Ruiz)
FIRST KISS (Gus Van Sant)
NO TRANSLATION NEEDED (Michael Cimino)
WHERE IS MY ROMEO (Abbas Kiarostami)
THE LAST DATING SHOW (Billie August)
SOLE MEETING (Manoel de Oliveira)
A 8 944 KM DE CANNES (Walter Salles)
WAR IN PEACE (Wim Wenders)
ZHANXIOU VILLAGE (Chen Kaige)

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