Lumiere and Company Movie Review
Lumiere and Company Review
"Lumiere and Company" Overview
Rating: NR
1995
Cast and Crew
Director : Merzak Allouache,Theo Angelopoulos,Vicente Aranda,Gabriel Axel,J.J. Bigas Luna,John Boorman,Youssef Chahine,Alain Corneau,Costa-Gavras,Raymond Depardon,Jaco van Dormael,Francis Girod,Peter Greenaway,Lasse Hallström,Michael Haneke,Hugh Hudson,James Ivory,Gaston Kaboré,Abbas Kiarostami,Cédric Klapisch,Andrei Konchalovsky,Patrice Leconte,Spike Lee,Claude Lelouch,David Lynch,Ismail Merchant,Claude Miller,Sarah Moon,Idrissa Ouedraogo,Arthur Penn,Lucian Pintilie,Jacques Rivette,Helma Sanders-Brahms,Jerry Schatzberg,Nadine Trintignant,Fernando Trueba,Liv Ullmann,Régis Wargnier,Wim Wenders,Yoshishige Yoshida,Yimou ZhangProducer : Neal Edelstein,Fabienne Servan-Schreiber
Screenwiter :
Starring : Pernilla August,Bruno Ganz,Isabelle Huppert,Satchel Lee,Spike Lee,François Mitterand,Liam Neeson,Sven Nykvist,Lena Olin,Aidan Quinn,Stephen Rea,Alan Rickman,Liv Ullmann,Max von Sydow
A documentary-ish experiment: Give 40 movie directors the world's first movie camera (the Lumiere cinematograph, 1895) and 52 seconds in which to shoot their own mini-film. Some of the directors go all out (David Lynch and some French people I've never heard of)... and some are pathetic, self-ego-massaging wastes of time (particularly Spike Lee, who uses his 52 seconds trying to get his baby to say "Dada"). Also curious is how many directors made movies about making movies (methinks that's all they know any more). But how often can you see 40 films, the making-of story, and an interview with the director, all in an hour and a half? Once in a lifetime is just about enough.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
