Lumière and Company (1995)

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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. The results run the gamut from Zhang Yimou's convention-thwarting joke to David Lynch's bizarre miniature epic.

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Director

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

Writers

Philippe Poulet

Stars

Alan Rickman
Himself

Liam Neeson
Himself

Stephen Rea
Himself

Sven Nykvist
Himself

Lena Olin

Pascal Duquenne

Others...

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Keywords

woman director, independent film, homage, hommage

Production

La Sept-Arte, Cinétévé, Igeldo Komunikazioa S.L.

Actor

Jeffe Alperi, Romane Bohringer, Bruno Ganz, Ticky Holgado, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea, Sven Nykvist, Lena Olin, Pascal Duquenne, Nathalie Richard, Nicolaos Charalambons, Neil Jordan, Aidan Quinn, Isabelle Huppert, Sylvia Miles, Jürgen Jürges, Otto Sander

Creators

Costa-Gavras (Director), Zhang Yimou (Director), Wim Wenders (Director), Claude Miller (Director), Spike Lee (Director), Lasse Hallström (Director), David Lynch (Director), Michael Haneke (Director), Arthur Penn (Director), Theo Angelopoulos (Director), Liv Ullmann (Director), James Ivory (Director), Claude Lelouch (Director), Cédric Klapisch (Director), John Boorman (Director), Youssef Chahine (Director), Idrissa Ouedraogo (Director), Fernando Trueba (Director), Régis Wargnier (Director), Peter Greenaway (Director), Francis Girod (Director), Alain Corneau (Director), Bigas Luna (Director), Patrice Leconte (Director), Ismail Merchant (Director), Helma Sanders-Brahms (Director), Raymond Depardon (Director), Hugh Hudson (Director), Andrei Konchalovsky (Director), Gabriel Axel (Director), Jacques Rivette (Director), Merzak Allouache (Director), Jerry Schatzberg (Director), Vicente Aranda (Director), Jaco Van Dormael (Director), Yoshishige Yoshida (Director), Abbas Kiarostami (Director), Lucian Pintilie (Director), Philippe Poulet (Screenplay), Gaston Kaboré (Director), Nadine Trintignant (Director), Sarah Moon (Director), Neal Edelstein (Producer), Sven Nykvist (Director of Photography), Humbert Balsan (Associate Producer), Jean-Yves Le Mener (Director of Photography), Roger Ikhlef (Editor), Søren Stærmose (Co-Producer), Ángel Amigo (Co-Producer), Françoise Nicolet (Costume Design), Fabienne Servan Schreiber (Producer), Jean-Jacques Lemêtre (Music), Anne Andreu (Executive Producer), Timothy Miller (Editor), Didier Ferry (Director of Photography), Frédéric LeClair (Director of Photography)

Alternative titles

Люмьер и компания (RU)
Lyumyer i kompaniya (RU)
Lumière and Company (GB)

Release dates

01.01.1995 (US)
29.03.1996 (US)
20.12.1995 (FR)