Lumière & Company
“Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors”
Released: 1995PLOT
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.
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DIRECTORS
John Boorman
Michael Haneke
Costa-Gavras
Wim Wenders
Raymond Depardon
David Lynch
Lasse Hallström
Cédric Klapisch
Claude Lelouch
Alain Corneau
Francis Girod
Spike Lee
Vicente Aranda
Abbas Kiarostami
Theo Angelopoulos
Yoshishige Yoshida
Fernando Trueba
Hugh Hudson
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Zhang Yimou
Ismail Merchant
Sarah Moon
Arthur Penn
Bigas Luna
Nadine Trintignant
Jerry Schatzberg
Merzak Allouache
Andrei Konchalovsky
Claude Miller
Gaston Kaboré
Jaco Van Dormael
Gabriel Axel
Jacques Rivette
Idrissa Ouedraogo
James Ivory
Patrice Leconte
Peter Greenaway
Liv Ullmann
Régis Wargnier
Youssef Chahine
Lucian Pintilie
WRITER
Actors
Jeff AlperiPoliceman (segment "David Lynch")
Romane Bohringer(segment "Claude Miller")
Bruno GanzDamiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Ticky Holgado(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Alan Rickman(segment "John Boorman")
Liam Neeson(segment "John Boorman")
Stephen Rea(segment "John Boorman")
Sven Nykvist(segment "Liv Ullman")
Lena Olin(segment "Lasse Hallström")
Pascal Duquenne(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
Nathalie RichardNinon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
Neil Jordan(segment "John Boorman")
Aidan Quinn(segment "John Boorman")
Isabelle HuppertNarrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)
Otto SanderCassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Max von SydowJacob (segment "Liv Ullman")
Spike LeeSelf (segment "Sarah Moon")
David LynchSelf
Zhang YimouSelf
Jacques RivetteSelf
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