Lumière & Company (1995)
Drama, Documentary
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.
Director: Francis Girod
Director: David Lynch
Director: Michael Haneke
Director: Vicente Aranda
Director: Claude Lelouch
Director: John Boorman
Director: Costa-Gavras
Director: Alain Corneau
Director: Spike Lee
Director: Wim Wenders
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Director: Lasse Hallström
Director: Raymond Depardon
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
Director: Merzak Allouache
Director: Ismail Merchant
Director: Gabriel Axel
Director: Peter Greenaway
Director: Sarah Moon
Director: Idrissa Ouedraogo
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Director: Zhang Yimou
Director: Claude Miller
Director: Arthur Penn
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Director: Nadine Trintignant
Director: Liv Ullmann
Director: Régis Wargnier
Director: Jacques Rivette
Director: Bigas Luna
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Director: Patrice Leconte
Director: Hugh Hudson
Director: Gaston Kaboré
Director: Fernando Trueba
Director: James Ivory
Director: Youssef Chahine
Director: Lucian Pintilie
The 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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