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
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
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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