The Lumière Award honouree filmed three versions of Leaving the Lumière Factory, complete with ‘Burtonesque’ props!
With the candour and warmth he is known for, Claude Lelouch opened up to the public at the TNP in Villeurbanne on Saturday during a discussion organised as part of the festival.
In the mid-1960s, André Cayatte tried a strange experiment, directing a pair of films showing the perspectives of a husband and wife on the failure of their relationship.
“It is totally a role of creation - I must say that Jo Chahine explains the character so well…”
Friday afternoon, the International Classic Film Market, directed by Juliette Rajon, welcomed Manuel Alduy, Director of Cinema at France Télévisions for the first time.
The Lumière Film Festival is hosting the exhibit, ‘Marilyn Monroe 1962’. A closer look at three emblematic photos.
Originally from Yvelines, Olivier Drouet joined the team of volunteers four years ago.
A look back at some festival highlights from the past few days!
Moved to tears, the filmmaker received the Lumière Award to a rousing standing ovation from the enthusiastic Lyon audience.
Several hours before the Lumière Award Ceremony, Tim Burton spoke to the audience in Lyon about his career and his very special heroes who are so like him.
The Lumière Film Festival pays tribute to a badass heroine of Japanese cinema: actress Meiko Kaji, discovered in ‘Female Prisoner: Scorpion’ (1972), gang leader in ‘Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse’ (1972), and flamboyant warrior in ‘Lady Snowblood’ (1973).
French-Italian actress Monica Bellucci, with clarity and honesty, evoked her career, her relationship to cinema, and her beauty.
Anita Ekberg had had enough of the paparazzi.
A standing ovation, laughter and lots of emotion. The Comoedia audience gave a resounding welcome to the movie ‘Forever Young’ (‘Les Amandiers’), which premiered on Wednesday.
"In high school I played the drums. Quite badly..."
Is it ever really over in a relationship when your name is Claude Lelouch?
It is Quentin Tarantino’s most famous movie, winner of the Palme d’Or, with its delectable humor and exploding narration. But do you really know it?
“Beyond the desire to go to the cinema… there is a real need.”
A look back at some festival highlights of the past few days!
After discovering the festival with his family during the screening of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ in the presence of Jane Fonda, Florian Mavy, 20 years old, joined the team of volunteers this year.
From Pulp Fiction to Forever Young, the programme of the Saliège students is enough to make anyone green with envy!
Tim Burton's wild imagination has come up with fantastic, monstrous and often endearing creatures.
A look back at the festival highlights of the past few days!
Godard, Audiard, Chabrol, Pialat... Actress Marlène Jobert remembers.
"Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next."
‘Fight Club’, the 1999 movie, a saga of overloaded testosterone, pent-up rage and anti-consumerist anarchy, influenced an entire generation of young men.
Genre cinema has always been ideal for denouncing and entertaining political misdeeds, capturing the attention of the viewer without his or her realizing it.
All our efforts must be directed towards the abstraction of anything not in the true domain of cinema, towards the ‘sweeping away’ of all that is useless, trivial and derived from other sources...
‘Nosferatu', otherwise known as ‘A Symphony of Horror’ by German director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau is one of the world's most famous films.
On Wednesday evening in the majestic setting of the Auditorium of Lyon, jazzman Kyle Eastwood paid tribute to his father by performing eleven famous melodies from his movies.
Everything you need to know about the most famous film of the German genius.
Vincent Thiéry, Regional Director of BCEF Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, tells us about BNP Paribas' support for the Lumière Film Festival and the cinema in general.
Yesterday Alain Carradore received the 7th Raymond Chirat Prize, for his inventiveness and the unique quality of his work on the Legendary Westerns collection.
Touatia Mechta, who now calls Villeurbanne home, has been a caregiver for two years and is a volunteer with the Fondation Abbé Pierre and the associations France Humanitaire and Le Chaînon manquant.
A look back at some festival highlights of the past few days!
"To create a new world, you have to start by imagining it”, according to Magali Payen and Cyril Dion.
The cinema is also about loyalty: a closer look at those who have supported Tim Burton in the creation of a unique universe.
Retirée des écrans, elle a accepté l’invitation du festival Lumière, pour évoquer une carrière qui aura su marier qualité et succès populaire.
The only feature film directed by the actor Charles Vanel, Dans la nuit, shot in 1929, is such an accomplishment that this silent movie gives you the impression you can hear the voices of its characters.
Every day, Lumière shines the spotlight on a little-known filmmaker and a movie worth discovering; doing justice to these forgotten films in the history of cinema is also the role of the Lumière Film Festival.
Released in 2014, Christopher Nolan's movie has quickly become a classic, and will be on the big screen in Lyon as part of the newly created Cult flicks! section. A fabulous story of time travel, with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance…
Western ludique et politique, Buck et son complice, premier film du comédien Sidney Poitier...
From auteur films to Maigret, portrait of a great actor: Bruno Cremer.
In 1929, I ventured into directing with Dans la nuit, which was described as a fantasy-horror film (a character has his face half torn off and wears a mask).
Bruno Pavlovsky, President of Chanel's Fashion Activities and Chanel SAS, talks about the historic links between the fashion house and designers, actresses and women directors.
Sandra Julien, a native of Chambéry, has been a volunteer at the Lumière Film Festival for five years.
Arnaud Brun, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Adéquat Group explains the commitment of the Lyon-based company to the Lumière Film Festival.
In Feminist Riposte, Simon Depardon and Marie Perennès meet with feminist organisations across France to interview collage activists…
For her audacity, her vision, the talent she has nurtured and continues to support, as well as the impact that ARP Sélection has had on the history of art house cinema.
Prior to his arrival in Lyon, Vincent Lindon, unofficial patron of the Sidney Lumet retrospective, confessed his admiration for the filmmaker.
Louis Malle had always remained a foreign filmmaker in the United States, which allowed him to paint a dissociated portrait of an America amid a transformation in Atlantic City of the 1980s.
Completed after the recent death of the filmmaker, this valuable documentary retraces the progression of Jean-Luc Godard’s path.
With two days to go before the Lumière Award is conferred upon Tim Burton, we take an evocative look at four moments in a career like no other.
Every day, Lumière shines the spotlight on a little-known filmmaker and a movie worth discovering; doing justice to these forgotten films in the history of cinema is also the role of the Lumière Film Festival.
In 1998, the Coen brothers made their cult movie, ‘The Big Lebowski’, a delicious pastiche of film noir, starring Jeff Bridges, forever solidified in his ‘Dude' getup.
A look at some festival highlights from the past few days!
Cut-Throats Nine, a B series western released in France in 1972 under the title ‘Few Seconds to say Amen’…
With enthusiasm and dedication, Alexandra Deja takes her students from the Maison Familiale Rurale (MFR) in Saint-Laurent de Chamousset on the adventure of the Lumière Film Festival every year.
In cinema, research is forbidden. It's funny because the audience has the right to search for enjoyment...
In two films made half a century apart, Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski shows that his vision of the world, both restless and poetic, has not changed.
We know that the audience always likes to be one step ahead of the story; they like to feel that they know what is going to happen…
Before becoming a Lumière volunteer, Muriel Deloche had several lives…
In 1996, horror cinema reinvented itself with a clever and deliciously terrifying mise en abyme...
A man who has served six years in the army as the result of a bad joke thinks he can get revenge years later.
Every day, Lumière shines the spotlight on a little-known filmmaker and a movie worth discovering; doing justice to these forgotten films in the history of cinema is also the role of the Lumière Film Festival.
A glance back at some of the highlights of the first few days of the festival!
A brutal western, a silent social film: Josetxo Cerdan, director of the Filmoteca Española in Madrid, returns to Lyon to present two surprising restorations.
The title says it all: this documentary on Gérard Philipe (1922-1959), based on personal documents provided by his family goes back in time.
A moving encounter, funny and genuine, with the actress-director Nicole Garcia.
Gérard Philipe was a huge star and dashing leading man in French cinema in the 1950s, but he nevertheless hated playing romantic characters in movies.
How Warren Beatty got Hollywood producers to make a saga on the Bolshevik Revolution...
Today, the International Classic Film Market got underway, an indispensable forum for the discussion of heritage films. Its Director, Juliette Rajon, tells us how it came about and how it operates.
A discussion with South Korean artist Lee Chang-dong, the director of egalitarian cinema.
Justine Malle, the daughter of filmmaker Louis Malle, revisits the career of her father, who never stopped renewing himself through the 7th Art.
On Sunday, American filmmaker James Gray outlined his vision of the cinema with humour and precision.
Every day, Lumière features a little-known filmmaker and a movie worth discovering; doing justice to these forgotten films in the history of cinema is also the role of the Lumière Film Festival.
A closer look at Sebastián Lelio, who will introduce and premiere his new film, The Wonder.
A very young man on a bench is a theme that runs through Jean Eustache's film, ‘Mes petites amoureuses (My Little Loves)’, the second restoration after the success of ‘The Mother and the Whore’.
“In each of my Hungarian films I tried to experiment, to introduce something never seen before, at least in the context of Hungarian cinema of that period”…
Directed in 1981, at the end of President Marcos' dictatorship in the Philippines, ‘Kisapmata’ is a family drama...
In the spring of 1995, Mathieu Kassovitz's’ ‘Hate (La Haine)’ drew over 2 million cinemagoers and created a genre: suburban cinema.
A look back at some highlights of the day of Sunday, October 16th.
A researcher in pharmaceutical development, Tanmoy is a newcomer to the volunteer team this year.
A magnificent documentary complements the rediscovery of filmmaker Kinuyo Tanaka, which took place last year at the Lumière Film Festival.
Begun in 1939 and finished in 1941 due to the war, Stormy Waters is a hybrid film.
Every day, Lumière features a little-known filmmaker and a movie worth discovering; doing justice to forgotten films in the history of cinema is also the role of the Lumière Film Festival.
A movie star of the British cinema in the 1950s, Swede Mai Zetterling sees her attachment to her acting career fading in the rear-view mirror...
"I think it is essential for an artist to create a world, a world defined by a style and a vision."
Filmed as a series of pious, even sacred images, Ordet is a great drama about the most difficult idea to film due to its invisibility: faith.
All generations of artists were in attendance to kick off the latest edition of the Lumiere Film Festival.
Co-president and artistic director of Chopard, Caroline Scheufele explains the close affinity between her creations and the cinema.
Published in 1986 and issued for the first time in France, the memoir of Mai Zetterling, All Those Tomorrows, reveals a unique journey and a singular vision.
"Would you like to see a strange world where demons are loved and angels are not?"
It is the story of a friendship. "I talk about the man I knew" is plainly stated in this book, a testament to the extent to which one encounter can change a life.
Before joining the team of volunteers eight years ago, this former English teacher was also involved in several associations in Lyon.
"You see, there is often a bias against money!" is a key line in Claude Chabrol's The Breach/The Breakup.
In a handful of films that play with shadows as only the great formalist filmmakers can, James Gray has become an auteur in a class of his own, an artist who reinvents grand classic cinema.
As an actress or filmmaker, she has never failed to deliver personal, sensual, elegant and immersive works.
Lee Chang-dong, the 68-year-old from South Korea, a renown and engaged writer and briefly Minister of Culture of his country, has chosen the cinema to create a humanist and fascinating universe.
Filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu, crowned with Oscars for Birdman and The Revenant, returns to his homeland of Mexico…
Every day, Lumière shines the spotlight on a little-known filmmaker and a movie worth discovering; doing justice to those forgotten films in the history of cinema is also the role of the Lumière Film Festival.
Behind the rich and varied content of the Lumière Film Festival 2022, there is Maelle Arnaud, a discerning programmer who pays close attention to archives from around the world.
« I know New York very well, I've lived there all my life. This city is infinite, you can't ever get to know it completely... »
What a great idea: to open the festival with a joyful, touching, inventive film, where we progressively fall in love with all the characters.
Brush up on the basics of the movie before you get lost...
In the late 1980s, a close-knit American family travels endlessly across the United States...
A look back at the acclaimed career of Etienne Chatiliez, a filmmaker in tune with his time.
As a long-time partner of the Lumière Film Festival, OCS continues to support heritage cinema. OCS General Manager Guillaume Jouhet explains.
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