OPENS OCTOBER 3, CERT 12, 88 MINS Jim Jarmusch recently told Uncut that when British producer Nick McClintock approached him for a 10-minute short on "something to do with the nature of time", he replied, "Vague enough? I like it." So, evidently, did names like Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Aki Kaurismak...
OPENS OCTOBER 3, CERT 12, 88 MINS
Jim Jarmusch recently told Uncut that when British producer Nick McClintock approached him for a 10-minute short on “something to do with the nature of time”, he replied, “Vague enough? I like it.” So, evidently, did names like Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Aki Kaurismaki, Werner Herzog and Chen Kaige, who feature here with wildly diverse offerings. There’ll be a second, from equally well-known directors, in December.
Kaurismaki kicks off with a deadpan tale of late-in-life love; Herzog hustles up a documentary on a rainforest tribe who first encountered ‘civilisation’ in 1981, with tragic repercussions. Jarmusch films an actress, Chlo