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Lumière and Company
Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors
Fourty intriguing films from the world's leading directors
Action, Comedy, Documentary, Drama - 1995
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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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Paris, Texas
(1984)
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
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Wings of Desire
(1987)
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words o...
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The Salt of the Earth
(2014)
During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvations and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fa...
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Buena Vista Social Club
(1999)
In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed...
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The American Friend
(1977)
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

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Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
88 min
Release date:
20 Dec 1995
Country:
FR, DK, ES, SE
Languages:
Danish, English, French, Greek (modern), Japanese, Chinese, Norwegian, Swedish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
N/A

Top Critics Reviews

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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.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
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