Lumière and Company
199588 minutes
- Cast:
- Theo Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, Gabriel Axel, MarÃa Lidón , Youssef Chahine, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Jaco van Dormael, Francis Girod, Peter Greenaway, Lasse Hallström, Michael Haneke, Hugh Hudson, James Ivory, Gaston Kabore, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Andrei Konchalovsky, Patrice Leconte, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Sarah Moon, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Arthur Penn, Lucian Pintilie, Jacques Rivette, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Régis Wargnier, Wim Wenders, Yoshishige Yoshida, Yimou Zhang, Bigas Luna
- Director:
- Merzak Allouache
To honor the 100th anniversary of motion pictures, 40 international directors create their own mini-movies in this French documentary. The weapon of choice for each is a replica of the camera used by the pioneer Lumiere brothers in 1895. Each short is a single take running just under a minute (the limit of one roll of film at the time). Spike Lee, Zhang Yimou, David Lynch and Wim Wenders are among those taking part in this unique experiment.






