What a pity!

What a waste! A sizable number of the films here are little more than still images taken with a movie camera. In others, they have some action, but resort to static images to fill in the extra time. You would think these directors would be ashamed of showing such lack of imagination.

One of the things that helps redeem this movie is the showing of the occasional film clip made by the Lumieres themselves. Those guys *cared* about motion!

And why is it that only perhaps 2 or 3 directors bother to take advantage of the option to use more than one take? This seems to demonstrate that most directors just wanted to get the whole thing over with quickly so that they could get back to their "real" (ie, paying) jobs.

I'll bet the producers ended up kicking themselves for not approaching the directors in the right way. I'm no great fan of David Lynch, but at least he took this project seriously and put all his effort and imagination into it. Can't help but wonder what the final product would have been like if they had gone to Lynch first, then approached the other directors with Lynch's film in hand: "Oh, by the way, we're sure you have some great ideas for what you want to do, but if you're interested, here's a little sample of what one guy did with our camera."