Lumière and Company

Lumière and Company
Lumière and Company
Directed by	Several (see Directors)
Written by	Several
Release date	1995;

Lumière and Company (original title: Lumière et compagnie) is a 1995 anthology film made in collaboration between forty-one international film directors. The project consists of short films made by each of the filmmakers using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers.^[1]^[2]

The shorts were edited in-camera and constrained by three rules:^[3]

A short may be no longer than 52 seconds
No synchronized sound
No more than three takes

Directors[]

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

References[]

^ Wheeler W. Dixon (28 February 2000). The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image. SUNY Press. pp. 98–. ISBN 978-0-7914-4516-7.
^ Negar Mottahedeh (24 October 2008). Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema. Duke University Press. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-0-8223-8119-8.
^ Cynthia Fuchs (2002). Spike Lee: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 26–. ISBN 978-1-57806-470-0.

External links[]

Lumière and Company at IMDb
Lumière and Company at Rotten Tomatoes

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[Dixon2000-1] Wheeler W. Dixon (28 February 2000). The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image. SUNY Press. pp. 98–. ISBN 978-0-7914-4516-7.

[Mottahedeh2008-2] Negar Mottahedeh (24 October 2008). Displaced Allegories: Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema. Duke University Press. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-0-8223-8119-8.

[Fuchs2002-3] Cynthia Fuchs (2002). Spike Lee: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 26–. ISBN 978-1-57806-470-0.

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