Lumière & Company (1995)
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | fr |
| Popularity | 9.871 |
Directed By
Francis Girod
David Lynch
Michael Haneke
Vicente Aranda
Claude Lelouch
John Boorman
Costa-Gavras
Alain Corneau
Spike Lee
Wim Wenders
Abbas Kiarostami
Cédric Klapisch
Lasse Hallström
Raymond Depardon
Theo Angelopoulos
Merzak Allouache
Ismail Merchant
Gabriel Axel
Peter Greenaway
Sarah Moon
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Jerry Schatzberg
Zhang Yimou
Claude Miller
Arthur Penn
Andrei Konchalovsky
Nadine Trintignant
Liv Ullmann
Régis Wargnier
Jacques Rivette
Bigas Luna
Jaco Van Dormael
Yoshishige Yoshida
Patrice Leconte
Hugh Hudson
Gaston Kaboré
Fernando Trueba
James Ivory
Youssef Chahine
Lucian Pintilie
Crew
Francis Girod
David Lynch
Michael Haneke
Vicente Aranda
Claude Lelouch
John Boorman
Costa-Gavras
Alain Corneau
Spike Lee
Wim Wenders
Abbas Kiarostami
Cédric Klapisch
Lasse Hallström
Raymond Depardon
Theo Angelopoulos
Merzak Allouache
Ismail Merchant
Gabriel Axel
Peter Greenaway
Sarah Moon
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Jerry Schatzberg
Zhang Yimou
Claude Miller
Arthur Penn
Andrei Konchalovsky
Nadine Trintignant
Liv Ullmann
Régis Wargnier
Jacques Rivette
Bigas Luna
Jaco Van Dormael
Yoshishige Yoshida
Patrice Leconte
Hugh Hudson
Gaston Kaboré
Fernando Trueba
James Ivory
Youssef Chahine
Lucian Pintilie
Anne Andreu
Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
Françoise Nicolet
Neal Edelstein
Fabienne Servan Schreiber
Roger Ikhlef
Philippe Poulet
Anne Andreu
Timothy Miller
Philippe Poulet
Frédéric LeClair
Humbert Balsan
Jean-Yves Le Mener
Didier Ferry
Sarah Moon
Ángel Amigo
Søren Stærmose
Sven Nykvist
TOP CAST
Jeff Alperi
Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
Romane Bohringer
(segment "Claude Miller")
Bruno Ganz
Damiel (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 Richard
Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
Neil Jordan
(segment "John Boorman")
Aidan Quinn
(segment "John Boorman")
Isabelle Huppert
Narrator (segment Abbas Kiarostami) (voice)
Otto Sander
Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
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