If you loved Based on a True Story, try To Each His Own Cinema

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. To Each His Own Cinema has roughly 3.4× fewer votes than Based on a True Story — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Based on a True Story

2017 · dir. Roman Polanski

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To Each His Own Cinema

2007 · dir. David Lynch, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Gus Van Sant, Roman Polanski, Takeshi Kitano, Walter Salles, Zhang Yimou, David Cronenberg, Michael Cimino, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Jane Campion, Wim Wenders, Andrei Konchalovsky, Atom Egoyan, Ken Loach, Olivier Assayas, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Bille August, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Chen Kaige, Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Theo Angelopoulos, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Amos Gitai, Claude Lelouch, Raúl Ruiz, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming-liang, Youssef Chahine

What they share

Both films are directed by Roman Polanski. If that's the register that drew you to Based on a True Story, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What To Each His Own Cinema is

A collection of shorts, then, each director offering what amounts to a cinematic shrug. Thirty-three filmmakers respond to the prompt of what cinema means to them. The result is a mixed bag, though at least it's reliably brief.

If you loved Based on a True Story, try To Each His Own Cinema

Based on a True Story

To Each His Own Cinema

What they share

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