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Lumière & Company (1995)
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
“Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors”
Drama, Documentary · 1h 28m
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
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")
Crew
- Director
- 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
- Director of Photography
- Philippe Poulet , Frédéric LeClair, Jean-Yves Le Mener, Didier Ferry, Sarah Moon, Sven Nykvist
- Editor
- Roger Ikhlef, Timothy Miller
- Producer
- Neal Edelstein, Fabienne Servan Schreiber
Details
- Original title
- Lumière et Compagnie
- Release date
- 1995-12-20
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama, Documentary
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- English, Greek, Danish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, French, Swedish, Japanese
- Countries
- France, Denmark, Spain, Sweden
- Production
- Cinétévé, La Sept-Arte, Igeldo Komunikazioa S.L., Søren Stærmose