Lumière & Company
1995 · 88 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 3,446 VOTES · DIR. Ismail Merchant, Peter Greenaway, Costa-Gavras, Wim Wenders, Youssef Chahine, Yoshishige Yoshida, Claude Miller, Jerry Schatzberg, Liv Ullmann, Sarah Moon, Vicente Aranda, James Ivory, Cédric Klapisch, Lucian Pintilie, John Boorman, Hugh Hudson, Fernando Trueba, Patrice Leconte, Abbas Kiarostami, Bigas Luna, Zhang Yimou, Jaco Van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Claude Lelouch, Lasse Hallström, Merzak Allouache, Spike Lee, Jacques Rivette, Arthur Penn, Gabriel Axel, Alain Corneau, Francis Girod, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Nadine Trintignant, Raymond Depardon, Gaston Kaboré, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Michael Haneke, Theo Angelopoulos, David Lynch, Andrei Konchalovsky
Overview
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.
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00:02:58 It's cold in Romania.
00:04:43 Arrival of a train in La Ciotat (France).
00:07:05 he's thrilled because it's a challenge.
00:07:53 or someone pretending he's one.
00:13:31 Precisely, it's too short.
00:16:29 As long as imagination and memory exist
00:18:58 with such a simple and beautifuI camera.
00:21:12 That is the question: to tell a story with the means of cinema.
00:29:17 which image of cinema spontaneously comes to your mind?
00:30:19 I don't think so, it's like memory.
00:34:30 and putting them in a frame.
00:35:30 I think it's some sort of obsession
00:40:29 It's the most efficient way
00:43:45 Yes, we are passionate!
00:46:51 Cinema is mortaI
00:48:58 You, where were you? There too?
00:52:20 the image of that instant 50 years ago?
00:53:25 I told you to stop, I tell you to go on. Where's the problem?
00:57:19 Stay still!
01:02:34 I'll see, I don't think so.
01:04:21 Directors don't do anything, they watch the unpacking.
01:11:57 That's not the right place.
01:16:38 There's the fly.
01:27:57 two of my strongest obsessions.