Lumière et compagnie (1995)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Directors:

Theodoros Angelopoulos
Vicente Aranda
(more)

Writer:

Philippe Poulet (original idea)

Release Date:

26 April 1996 (Spain)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers...

Plot Keywords:

Director | Hiroshima | Experimental Film | Compilation | Avant Garde

Cast

Jeffe Alperi	...	Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
Romane Bohringer	...	(segment "Claude Miller")
Michele Carlyle	...	(segment "David Lynch")
Lou Chapiteau	...	(segment "Claude Miller")
Marc Chapiteau	...	(segment "Claude Miller")
Antoine Duléry	...	(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Pascal Duquenne	...	(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")
Bruno Ganz	...	Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Charles Gérard	...	(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Ticky Holgado	...	(segment "Claude Lelouch")
Isabelle Huppert	...	(segment "Abbas Kiarostami") (voice)
Neil Jordan	...	(segment "John Boorman")
Patrice Leconte	...	Himself (segment "Sarah Moon")
Satchel Lee	...	(segment "Spike Lee")
Spike Lee	...	Himself (segment "Sarah Moon")
Claude Lelouch	...	Himself (segment "Sarah Moon")
Stan Lothridge	...	Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
David Lynch	...	Himself
Alessandra Martines	...	(segment "Claude Lelouch")
François Mitterrand	...	Himself (segment "Régis Wargnier")
Liam Neeson	...	(segment "John Boorman")
Sven Nykvist	...	(segment "Liv Ullman")
Lena Olin	...	(segment "Lasse Hallström")
Idrissa Ouedraogo	...	Himself
Géraldine Pailhas	...	(segment "Cédric Klapisch")
Russ Pearlman	...	Child (segment "David Lynch")
Pam Pierrocish	...	Mother (segment "David Lynch")
Aidan Quinn	...	(segment "John Boorman")
Kathleen Raymond	...	(segment "David Lynch")
Stephen Rea	...	(segment "John Boorman")
Nathalie Richard	...	Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")
Alan Rickman	...	(segment "John Boorman")
Jacques Rivette	...	Himself (segment "Sarah Moon (I)")
Félix Romeo	...	Himself (segment "Fernando Trueba")
Joan Rudelstein	...	(segment "David Lynch")
Dawn Salcedo	...	(segment "David Lynch")
Otto Sander	...	Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Clyde Small	...	Father (segment "David Lynch")
Zinedine Soualem	...	(segment "Cédric Klapisch")
Liv Ullmann	...	Herself (segment "Sarah Moon (I)")
Mark Wood	...	Policeman (segment "David Lynch")
Yimou Zhang	...	Himself
Pernilla August	...	Anna Åkerblom (uncredited)
Sergi Rubió	...	Himself (segment "Vicente Aranda") (uncredited)
Max von Sydow	...	Jacob Åkerblom (uncredited)

Directed by
Theodoros Angelopoulos		(as Theo Angelopoulos)
Vicente Aranda
John Boorman
Youssef Chahine
Alain Corneau
Costa-Gavras
Raymond Depardon
Francis Girod
Peter Greenaway
Lasse Hallström
Hugh Hudson
Gaston Kaboré
Abbas Kiarostami
Cédric Klapisch
Andrei Konchalovsky
Spike Lee
Claude Lelouch
Bigas Luna
Sarah Moon
Arthur Penn
Lucian Pintilie
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Jerry Schatzberg
Nadine Trintignant
Fernando Trueba
Liv Ullmann
Jaco van Dormael
Régis Wargnier
Wim Wenders
Yoshishige Yoshida		(as Kiju Yoshida)
Yimou Zhang
Merzak Allouache		(segment "Merzak Allouache/Aubervilliers")
Gabriel Axel		(segment "Gabriel Axel/Copenhague")
Michael Haneke		(segment "Michael Haneke/Vienne")
James Ivory		(segment "Merchant Ivory/Paris")
Patrice Leconte		(segment "La Ciotat 1996/Patrice Leconte")
David Lynch		(segment "Premonition Following An Evil Deed")
Ismail Merchant		(segment "Merchant Ivory/Paris")
Claude Miller		(segment "Claude Miller/Paris")
Idrissa Ouedraogo		(segment "Idrissa Ouedraogo/Burkina Faso")
Jacques Rivette		(segment "Jacques Rivette/Paris")

Writing credits
Philippe Poulet		(original idea)

Produced by
Ángel Amigo	....	co-producer
Anne Andreu	....	executive producer
Humbert Balsan	....	associate producer (segment "Merchant Ivory")
Neal Edelstein	....	producer
Fabienne Servan-Schreiber	....	producer
Søren Stærmose	....	co-producer

Cinematography by
Didier Ferry		(Lumière cinematographe)
Frédéric LeClair		(Hi-8 video)
Sarah Moon		(Hi-8 video)
Philippe Poulet		(Lumière cinematographe)

Film Editing by
Roger Ikhlef
Timothy Miller

Art Direction by
Anne Andreu

Production Management
Laurence Miller	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Marc-Oliver Dreher	....	first assistant director
Emad El Bahat	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Jean Casanova	....	production sound mixer
Cécile Lecante	....	sound mixer
Bernard Rochut	....	production sound mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Franck Chron	....	grip: segment "Merchant Ivory/Paris"
Sarah Moon	....	still photographer

Editorial Department
Spiro Carras	....	post-production consultant

Music Department
Nikolaus Harnoncourt	....	conductor: Strauss' "Der Zigeunerbaron"
Wolfgang Sawallisch	....	conductor: Schumann's Symphony

Other crew
Celine Haddad	....	production assistant (as Céline Haddad)
Florence Hamel	....	technical consultant
Katia Labèque	....	pianist: Albeniz' "Pavana Capricho" (as Katia et Mariel Labèques)
Marielle Labèque	....	pianist: Albeniz' "Pavana Capricho" (as Katia et Mariel Labèques)
Louis Lumière	....	director: archive footage
Jean-Pierre Moreau	....	technical consultant
Maria João Pires	....	pianist: Schubert's Sonata and Fantasie
Philippe Poulet	....	film stock creation

Production Companies

• Cinétévé
• La Sept-Arte
• Igeldo Komunikazioa
• Søren Stærmose AB
• Canal+ (participation)
• Arte (participation)
• Eurimages (support)
• Musée du Cinéma de Lyon

Distributors

• Pierre Grise Distribution (1995) (France) (theatrical)
• Alta Films (Spain) (theatrical)
• Fox Lorber (1997) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Lumière and Company (International: English title)
Lumiere y compañía (Spain)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

France | Denmark | Spain | Sweden

Language:

French | English | Danish | Norwegian | Swedish | Greek | Japanese | Mandarin

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Spain:T | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Athens, Greece

Company:

Cinétévé

Movie Connections:

Edited from Premiers pas de bébé (1897)

What a pity,I just see half.

I was drawn in some segments,but unfortunately,i just see half. Let a director do sth. good just in 50 seconds seems too unimaginalbe,but of course they are master,so they can make those 50 seconds produce nice cinema.