Lumière and Company
Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors
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.
- Year: 1995
- Country: France, Denmark, Spain, Sweden
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Cinétévé, La Sept-Arte, Igeldo Komunikazioa S.L.
- Keyword: homage, woman director
- Director: Lasse Hallström, Michael Haneke, Alain Corneau, Spike Lee, John Boorman, Cédric Klapisch, Raymond Depardon, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami, David Lynch, Vicente Aranda, Francis Girod, Theo Angelopoulos, Jaco Van Dormael, Ismail Merchant, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Peter Greenaway, Patrice Leconte, Gaston Kaboré, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jacques Rivette, Jerry Schatzberg, Merzak Allouache, Nadine Trintignant, Yoshishige Yoshida, Zhang Yimou, Gabriel Axel, Claude Miller, Arthur Penn, James Ivory, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Hugh Hudson, Régis Wargnier, Andrei Konchalovsky, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Lucian Pintilie, Youssef Chahine
- Cast: Jeff Alperi, Romane Bohringer, Bruno Ganz, Ticky Holgado, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson