Room 999
Forty years after Wim Wenders asked leading filmmakers at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival to offer their thoughts on the future of cinema in his documentary Room 666, Lubna Playoust poses the same question—“Is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”—to a new generation of directors. Utilizing the same minimalist, fixed camera format as Wenders, Playoust invites thirty directors who attended the 2022 festival—including Claire Denis, David Cronenberg, Lynne Ramsay, Asghar Farhadi, James Gray, and Wenders himself—to give their unfiltered perspectives on the state of the industry. Touching on upheavals in the technology, distribution, and economics of filmmaking as well as on larger questions of politics and culture, their answers provide a thought-provoking exploration of the meaning and relevance of cinema in the twenty-first century.
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Collector's Set
Cast
- Wim Wenders
- Audrey Diwan
- David Cronenberg
- Joachim Trier
- Shannon Murphy
- James Gray
- Arnaud Desplechin
- Lynne Ramsay
- Asghar Farhadi
- Nadav Lapid
- Claire Denis
- Davy Chou
- Baz Luhrmann
- Alice Winocour
- Ayo Akingbade
- Olivier Assayas
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Agnès Jaoui
- Kirill Serebrennikov
- Cristian Mungiu
- Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Albert Serra
- Monia Chokri
- Ninja Thyberg
- Pietro Marcello
- Rebecca Zlotowski
- Ali Cherri
- Ruben Östlund
- Clément Cogitore
- Alice Rohrwacher
Credits
- Director
- Lubna Playoust
- Produced by
- Elisha Karmitz
- Produced by
- Nathanaël Karmitz
- Produced by
- Rosalie Varda
- Music by
- Pierre Rousseau
- Cinematography by
- Marine Atlan
- Editing by
- Nicolás Longinotti
- Production manager
- Ysé Mercury
- Production manager
- Etienne Rouillon
- Re-recording mixer / sound mixer
- César Mamoudy
- Assistant camera
- Elise Poulain Lacourt
- Colorist
- Pierre Mazoyer
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