| Overview: | Fifteen of the world's top directors give a personal view on the nature of time. This DVD set includes the following two compilations: "Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet" and "Ten Minutes Older: The Cello".
TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE TRUMPET:
The subject of time has infinitely fascinated writers, philosophers and scientists. Conceived of by British producer Nicolas McClintock, the award-winning documentary maker wondered how different film directors might view the subject. "Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet" is one of two feature-length compilations of movie shorts by some of the world's most renowned film directors with contributions from Aki Kaurismaki, Victor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Spike Lee and Chen Kaige. Each film is linked by the respective musical instrument in its title and the musical interlude (scored by Paul Englishby) between each film connects each short in a gentle manner, allowing each picture to have its own 'frame'. The theme tune from "Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet" is from legendary Jazz maverick Hugh Masekela and the feature includes contributions from bands including The Eels.
TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE CELLO:
"Ten Minutes Older: The Cello" is the second of two feature length compilations of short films exploring each participating director's personal vision of time.This film showcases the contributions of eight further auteur directors--bringing the total contributors to fifteen--and features films from Bernardo Bertolucci, Mike Figgis, Jiri Menzel, Istvan Szabo, Claire Denis, Volker Schlondorff, Michael Radford and Jean-Luc Godard. As in "Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet", each short is linked by a musical instrument (in this case a cello), allowing each picture to have its own frame. The musical interlude is performed by Claudio Bohorquez and was scored by Paul Englishby.
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