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