Lumière & Company (1996)

  • NR
  • 03/29/1996 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 28m

Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors

Overview

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.

John Boorman

Director

Michael Haneke

Director

Costa-Gavras

Director

Wim Wenders

Director

Raymond Depardon

Director

David Lynch

Director

Lasse Hallström

Director

Cédric Klapisch

Director

Claude Lelouch

Director

Alain Corneau

Director

Francis Girod

Director

Spike Lee

Director

Vicente Aranda

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Director

Theo Angelopoulos

Director

Yoshishige Yoshida

Director

Fernando Trueba

Director

Hugh Hudson

Director

Helma Sanders-Brahms

Director

Zhang Yimou

Director

Ismail Merchant

Director

Sarah Moon

Director

Arthur Penn

Director

Bigas Luna

Director

Nadine Trintignant

Director

Jerry Schatzberg

Director

Merzak Allouache

Director

Andrei Konchalovsky

Director

Claude Miller

Director

Gaston Kaboré

Director

Jaco Van Dormael

Director

Gabriel Axel

Director

Jacques Rivette

Director

Idrissa Ouedraogo

Director

James Ivory

Director

Patrice Leconte

Director

Peter Greenaway

Director

Liv Ullmann

Director

Régis Wargnier

Director

Youssef Chahine

Director

Lucian Pintilie

Director

Cast

Jeff Alperi's headshot

Jeff Alperi

Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
Romane Bohringer's headshot

Romane Bohringer

(segment "Claude Miller")
Bruno Ganz's headshot

Bruno Ganz

Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Ticky Holgado's headshot

Ticky Holgado

(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Alan Rickman's headshot

Alan Rickman

(segment "John Boorman")
Liam Neeson's headshot

Liam Neeson

(segment "John Boorman")
Stephen Rea's headshot

Stephen Rea

(segment "John Boorman")
Sven Nykvist's headshot

Sven Nykvist

(segment "Liv Ullman")

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