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Writer:
Philippe Poulet (original idea)
Contact:
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Release Date:
20 December 1995 (France) more
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Plot:
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers... more | add synopsis
User Reviews:
Surprising lack of talent and ideas among pretentious twits... more (13 total)

Cast

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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")
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)

Isabelle Huppert ... (segment "Abbas Kiarostami") (voice) (uncredited)
Sergi Rubió ... Himself (segment "Vicente Aranda") (uncredited)

Max von Sydow ... Jacob Åkerblom (uncredited)
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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 
 
Costume Design by
Françoise Nicolet (series costume designer)
 
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
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Lumière and Company (International: English title)
Lumiere y compañía (Spain)
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Runtime:
88 min
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4 out of 16 people found the following review useful.
Surprising lack of talent and ideas among pretentious twits..., 30 June 1999
Author: Parca

In making this documentary, what its makers wind up unveiling is how many of them have no ideas whatsoever. Almost all the attempts with the Lumiere camera involve just placing a lot of people in front of the camera and have them wave and/or stare, or they involve films about filmmakers. Other attempts are to recreate the banal films which were made in the era of first attempts in the history of cinema. And then you have clips that you can see that the director didn't take the project seriously at all, as in the cases of Spike Lee and John Boorman. Then you get laughably bad films made by pretentious idiots, such as the one by Peter Greenaway (who concludes that film is dying) and the one by the Japanese twit who says that film doesn't capture anything.

On the plus side, you get some interesting films along the way, particularly among the last few, like the one by David Lynch, among others.

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