i generally agree that the result reach by these forty director be of wildly uneven quality . it also appear to be a consensus that the strong entry be david lynch bizarre sci fi collage and but i would say closely follow by represent ) zhang yimou nice reversal of the old fashioned set initially present . and one of the few piece with any sense of humor . ) helma sander beautiful four dimensional painting with light which make a virtue of the film stock limit range of contrast . ) claude lelouch vertiginous kiss a camera technology evolve in the background . i also find some of the simpler one quite charm and include represent ) jaco van dormael portrait of a kiss by a pair of special lover and ) peter greenaway float number of time ) wim wenders quiet and simple re visitation of his angel ) jerry schatzberg snapshot of urban scavenging and ) bigas luna portrait of a nude woman nursing in a field . however and the vast majority of the piece be dull and redundant ( couldn not those guide the project have communicate with each filmmaker about their intention to avoid such frequent duplication . ) and pretentious and and bad of all humorless . the bad offender be the most self conscious piece which coincidentally tend to have the most annoying soundtrack include spike lee ( leading candidate for most self obsess father of the year ) and liv ullman ( hers be the least inspired of the dozen or so camera film camera piece ) and and kiju yoshida ( who pompously announce he will demonstrate the impossibility of capture an image on film ) . in short and lumiere be well worth a look and with some brilliant moment and especially for student of film and film history . but keep a grain of salt and your fast forward button handy .