I have not yet seen Paris, je t’aime so I don’t have anyway to tell you about this new project called New York, je t’aime (New York, I Love You) other than to tell you it will be an directorial ensemble much in the same vain as Paris although it is said to be “more fluid”. With Paris twenty filmmakers including the likes of Tom Tykwer, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Wes Craven, Gurinder Chadha, Alexander Payne, Gus Van Sant and Alfonso Cuarón fashioned five minute segments each of a story taking place in Paris and from my guess it sounds like this will be more of a singular story whereas Paris was a series of stories fashioned together to make one.
Directors for New York, je t’aime include Zach Braff, Mira Nair, Park Chan-Wook, Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Wang Xiaoshuai, Emanuele Crialese, Albert and Allen Hughes and Andrey Zvyagintsev with three more to be added to the lineup.
Producer Emmanuel Benbihy told The Hollywood Reporter, “With NY, I Love You, we really want to surprise audiences with young, hip filmmakers with their own personal style and movie language… Hopefully, with NY, I Love You, critics will have more difficulty choosing their favorite or least favorite segments. They’ll all be good. We want to give the illusion of unity as much as possible and bring the narrative challenge a step further.”
On top of this Benbihy is also preparing China, I Love You for a summer 2008 release. “We hope we’ve started a new movement in cinema, a different way to make movies,” Benbihy said.
