Lumiere and Company

Lumiere and Company is a 1995 documentary film directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos and Vicente Aranda, based on an original idea by Philippe Poulet, starring Liam Neeson, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Isabelle Huppert and Alan Rickman. The movie, also known as Lumiere et compagnie, includes forty different stories by different directors, using the original cinematography.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113718/

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the invention of the cinematograph, forty international directors were challenged to create a short movie using that same machine. The films had to be shorter than 52 seconds, without the use of synchronized sound, and only three takes were allowed. The results are gathered in this documentary.

• Jeffe Alperi

• Romane Bohringer

• Michele Carlyle

• Lou Chapiteau

• Marc Chapiteau

• Antoine Dulery

• Pascal Duquenne

• Bruno Ganz

• Charles Gerard

• Ticky Holgado

• Isabelle Huppert

• Neil Jordan

• Patrice Leconte

• Satchel Lee

• Spike Lee

• Claude Lelouch

• Stan Lothridge

• David Lynch

• Alessandra Martines

• Francois Mitterrand

• Liam Neeson

• Sven Nykvist

• Lena Olin

• Aidan Quinn

• Stephen Rea

• Alan Rickman

• Liv Ullmann

• Yimou Zhang

"Even the gamest of viewers will want to indulge her nostalgia judiciously, to avoid getting sour on the narcissism of the exercise. "—Martin Scribbs, "Mixed Reviews"http://www.mixedreviews.net/extrahelpings/2004/lumiere/lumiere.shtml

"The 40 brief films are often wonderful, and always revealing in the way they show professional directors working on what amounts to a haiku. "—Roger Ebert , "Chicago Sun-Times"http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19961206/REVIEWS/612060302/1023