Aria

What do you get when you take ten top-notch directors and have them each make a short film in relation to an opera song? Hopefully something better than this, though this will do. The directors were: Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, and Julien Temple. While I was rarely sure why the filmmakers chose to associate their images with the particular song they used, it was never uninteresting. For my money, the three best films were the ones directed by Franc Roddam, Ken Russell, and Derek Jarman. Roger Ebert correctly describes this as the first MTV version of opera.