It may not be a multiplex, but Santa Monica’s Aero repertory theater still offers two too many confounding options for ten gallon–hatted Josh Brolin in the Coen brothers’ delightful short World Cinema. Part of the 2007 omnibus Chacun son cinema (To Each His Own Cinema), made for the Cannes Film Festival’s sixtieth anniversary (and also featuring shorts by Jane Campion, Gus Van Sant, Zhang Yimou, and David Lynch), this three-minute-and-eighteen-second film—in which Brolin's rancher wanders into the theater and then needs help deciding between Jean Renoir’s Rules of the Game and Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s recent Climates (eliciting earnest explanations from the cinephilic cashier)—is now available on YouTube after being left off of Chacun’s recent DVD release. We particularly enjoyed seeing the posters featured in the lobby!
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106 min
Black and White
1.33:1
5 Comments
Fri 14 Aug at 06:04 PM
Matthias Galvin
he should’ve picked The Rules of the Game
much truth in that too
and well… it’s just more fun
Fri 04 Sep at 03:18 PM
Mian Atif
Mr. Brolin’s knee-jerk shrug reaction as the cashier tells him Climates is about love is just perfect.
Livestock
What time you get off work??
!!! LLLMMMAAAOOO !!!
Fri 04 Sep at 04:16 PM
Jeff Heise
Typical low-key, droll, deadpan Coen greatness, and how many people will get the in-joke about Brolin’s character from NO COUNTRY. . . going to see an art film? Many, I hope. Just great.
Fri 04 Sep at 05:13 PM
Kaleb Temple
I bought the DVD and was delighted by the whole thing but bummed that World Cinema wasn’t on it so thank you very much for posting it.
It is great that Dan calls Renoir’s film La Regle du jeu rather than Rules of the Game even though it is posted with the english title above the show times. So perfect. So good.
Sat 05 Sep at 12:15 AM
Jaffa heisel
ONLY YOU, JEFF, GET THE ‘NO COUNTRY’ REFERENCE. ONLY YOU.
DID YOU FORGET THAT IS WAS NOMINATED FOR 8, COUNT ’EM 8, OSCARS? BUT, STILL, ONLY YOU GOT THE REFERENCE, JEFF. HOW DOES THAT FEEL?
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