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Lumière & Company

1995 · 1h 28m · Drama, Documentary

Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors

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.

Cast

• Jeff Alperi as Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
• Romane Bohringer as (segment "Claude Miller")
• Bruno Ganz as Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
• Ticky Holgado as (segment "Claude Lelouch")
• Alan Rickman as (segment "John Boorman")
• Liam Neeson as (segment "John Boorman")
• Stephen Rea as (segment "John Boorman")
• Sven Nykvist as (segment "Liv Ullman")
• Lena Olin as (segment "Lasse Hallström")
• Pascal Duquenne as (segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
• Nathalie Richard as Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
• Neil Jordan as (segment "John Boorman")

Details

Director

Lasse Hallström, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Alain Corneau, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Michael Haneke, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Costa-Gavras, Theo Angelopoulos, Peter Greenaway, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Andrei Konchalovsky, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jaco Van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Yoshishige Yoshida, Zhang Yimou, Merzak Allouache, Gabriel Axel, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jacques Rivette, Youssef Chahine and Lucian Pintilie

Released

December 20, 1995

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Drama, Documentary

Studio

Cinétévé, La Sept-Arte and Igeldo Komunikazioa S.L.

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.4 / 10 from 74 votes