Lumière & Company

Dec 20, 1995

1h 28m

★ 6.3

Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors

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.

Genres

Drama

Documentary

Production Companies

Cinétévé

La Sept-Arte

Igeldo Komunikazioa S.L.

Søren Stærmose

Lumière & Company Trailers

Cast

Policeman (segment "David Lynch")

Jeff Alperi

(segment "Claude Miller")

Romane Bohringer

Damiel (segment "Wim Wenders")

Bruno Ganz

(segment "Claude Lelouch")

Ticky Holgado

(segment "John Boorman")

Alan Rickman

(segment "John Boorman")

Liam Neeson

(segment "John Boorman")

Stephen Rea

(segment "Liv Ullman")

Sven Nykvist

(segment "Lasse Hallström")

Lena Olin

(segment "Jaco Van Dormael")

Pascal Duquenne

Ninon (segment "Jacques Rivette")

Nathalie Richard

(segment "John Boorman")

Neil Jordan

The first image is in black and white, upside down and projected into a black box that then becomes the frame. It now hovers like a time capsule near a man’s face. He looks down, listening in on a female guerrilla fighter and translating her words from Fulani. Within the capsule, money is counted and paid out as a new currency, the numbers of the years run backwards in the black box. A 16-mm film glides through the man's hands and is transferred to a laptop screen frame by frame.

5.5

Hotel Very Welcome

Feb 13, 2007

Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.

6.0

Citizen Schein

Mar 10, 2017

Harry Schein was an anomaly in Swedish cultural society. Equal parts playboy, intellectual, and political visionary, his life story could very well be the foundation of a Hollywood film. Citizen Schein is a film about a refugee who refused to look back, a film about powerful men, and the myths that fuel them.

6.0

Baronesa

Jun 14, 2018

The everyday life of a Belo Horizonte lower class neighborhood.

5.9

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Jul 7, 2009

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.

7.9

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Nov 27, 1991

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

0.0

From Victoria Street to Ang Mo Kio

May 26, 2019

This work documents a segment of Singapore’s education history –– the survival of the nation’s first Catholic missionary Chinese girls’ school through adversities during her formative years. It is a tribute to the arduous efforts and contributions of a generation of admirable educators who persevered in delivering the education of love with resilience and steadfastness.

0.0

I Was Busy Dreaming About Boys

Oct 30, 2024

Alma is sexually harassed by a friend in a club. At first she wants to forget all about it quickly and dismisses it as a drunken slip of the tongue. But the experience sends her into a downward spiral that she can't seem to get out of - until she has to.

5.9

Subway in the Sky

Nov 1, 1959

Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.

No Image

0.0

Triggerwarnung

Oct 30, 2024

Alina has her first Tinder date with Louis after a long-term relationship. After the date, they have sex, even though Alina didn't really want to.

6.8

Blindsight

Sep 11, 2006

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mountain-climber Erik Weihenmayer.

No Image

0.0

Refuge

Jan 1, 2018

Rachel, a Jewish-American woman, moves to Vienna, Austria to work for the IAEA. She befriends Yitzhak, an Ethiopian Jew and former refugee, who lives in her apartment complex. When confronted with their shared cultural history, Rachel must reconcile her past with Austria's Holocaust history and the current refugee crisis gripping Europe.

7.2

Bloody Sunday

Jan 25, 2002

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

5.5

Patong Girl

Dec 25, 2014

German family Schroeder is spending their Christmas holidays on the Thai island, Phuket. Of all the things, deep within the sleazy tourist bars and alleys of Patong, the youngest son Felix falls in love with a gorgeous Thai girl Fai who in return appears to mutually attracted to him.

4.3

Casa Roshell

Nov 13, 2017

You’d never know this is your home away from home. The surveillance camera outside shows a drab reception area and an unremarkable street in Mexico City; inside, the lights flash, but the tables are empty. Yet preparations are soon underway and fixed categories cease to apply: stubble is removed, make-up applied and strands of hair are teased into place; the camera is trained not on the men themselves, but what they see in the mirror.

8.0

$avvy

Apr 1, 2021

$avy investigates the historical, cultural, and societal norms around women and money.

No Image

7.0

Svengali

May 1, 1914

Based on the novel Trilby by George du Maurier. A girl named Trilby meets Svengali, a musician and hypnotist, who claims he can turn her into a talented singer via hypnosis.