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Lumiere & Company (1995)

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Reviews Counted: 6 Fresh: 6  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Synopsis:
Forty directors from around the world directed 52-second short films using a restored Lumiere camera in this homage to the pioneer filmmakers, the Lumiere brothers. Directors include John Boorman, Costa-Gavras, Andrei Konchalovsky, James Ivory, Spike Lee, Bigas Luna, Patrice Leconte,... [More]
Forty directors from around the world directed 52-second short films using a restored Lumiere camera in this homage to the pioneer filmmakers, the Lumiere brothers. Directors include John Boorman, Costa-Gavras, Andrei Konchalovsky, James Ivory, Spike Lee, Bigas Luna, Patrice Leconte, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Zhang Yimou, Fernando Trueba and Liv Ullmann. [Less]

Genre: Education/General Interest

Director: David Lynch, John Boorman, Liv Ullmann, James Ivory, Spike Lee, Yimou Zhang, Lasse Hallstrom, Arthur Penn, Costa Gavras, Wim Wenders

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Release:

Jan 14, 1998

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1 Encoding
  • Keep Case
  • Interactive Menus
  • Production Notes
  • Scene Access
  • Trailer

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05/14/05 11:44 AM
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Even the gamest of viewers will want to indulge her nostalgia judiciously, to avoid getting sour on the narcissism of the exercise.

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Uneven, but interesting experiment

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A really interesting idea.

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01/01/00 12:00 AM
Christopher Null
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The 40 brief films are often wonderful, and always revealing in the way they show professional directors working on what amounts to a haiku.

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