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Shochiku Drives Into Classic Film
LYON – Japan’s Shochiku is driving into the international classics business, tapping into a 4,000-title catalogue that includes vaunted masterpieces such as “Tokyo Story” and “The Ballad of Narayama.”...
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Tarantino: ‘Cinema Is My Religion and France Is the Vatican’
LYON – Harvey Weinstein, Harvey Keitel and Tim Roth rolled into Lyon on Friday joining Uma Thurman, already in town, to pay tribute to this year’s Lumiere Award winner Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino...
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First Lumiere Classic Films Market Hits Mark
LYON – U.S. classic film distributor Twilight Time has pacted with London-based Protagonist Pictures on U.S. distrib rights to a package of Film4 movies. Announced at the Lumiere Festical’s first...
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Lumière Festival Continues to Celebrate Female Filmmakers with Ida Lupino...
Now in its third year, the Lumière Festival’s ongoing Permanent History of Women Filmmakers section isn’t a series of disconnected annual retrospectives — its three editions thus far build a...
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Lumière Festival’s Classic Film Market Builds on Success
LYON – In 2014, the Lumière’s Festival’s Village, – a picturesque complex containing the Institut Lumière, a modern cinema, grassland, a book/DVD fair – may begin to look like a small town. Put that...
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Thierry Fremaux on Pedro Almodóvar, Film Docs, Lumière Festival Growth
He who dares, wins. Now entering its sixth edition, Gran Lyon’s Lumière Festival, launched by Thierry Fremaux and Bertrand Tavernier from the Institut Lumière, is firmly established on the festival...
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Gravel Road CEO Reels About Growth in South African Film Market
Gravel Road Entertainment Group CEO Benjamin Cowley said he was drawn to African films because the market for them, particularly ones from the late twentieth century, is on the rise. As the head of...
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Pedro Almodóvar Talks About Spanish Cinema He Loves
“Without cinema, we are nothing,” says Pedro Almodóvar, in a quote used for the intro clip to this year’s Lumière Festival in Lyon. Anyone who has seen an Almodóvar film will sense how deeply he is...
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Claude Sautet: The Things of Life
The Lumière Festival’s Claude Sautet retrospective is being presented under the banner “The Age of Sautet (1960-95),” and that just about says it all. In the years he was active, few French directors...
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Almodóvar Shoots Latest Film in Lyon, Shares Prize with Frank Capra
LYON – What will be Pedro Almódovar’s next film? Answer: It’s a remake of a French classic, 1895’s “Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory,” and Almódovar shot it Saturday in France’s Lyon. Credited as...
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Bertrand Tavernier: ‘My Journey’ Has ‘Made Me Proud to Be French’
Bertrand Tavernier’s ambitious documentary, “My Journey through French Cinema,” explores Gallic cinema from the 1930s through to the early 1970s, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s “Personal Journey through...
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Les Acacias Screens ‘Tales of Hoffmann’ and ‘César et Rosalie’ at Lumière...
Remastered works by auteur directors Michael Powell and Claude Sautet will make their way to the Lumière Film Festival 2016 thanks to classic film distribution company Les Acacias. Audiences in Lyon...
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Lumière Festival: 90% of U.S. Films Shot Before 1914 Have Disappeared, Warns...
LYON, France — The global market for restored cinema classics is improving, but preservation efforts need to be stepped up before a larger portion of humanity’s cinematic heritage vanishes, warned...
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Lumière Festival: Walt Disney’s ‘Alice Comedies’ Being Restored, Distributed...
LYON, France — Walt Disney’s “Alice Comedies,” a series of cartoons made before Disney went to Hollywood, have been freshly restored and re-packaged for global distribution by France’s Malavida Films,...
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Lumière Festival: ‘Blade Runner,’‘Sorcerer’ to Be Re-Released in France
The 4th edition of Festival Lumière, which harbors the first and only classic film market in the world, included a round-table on “Heritage films: promotion, marketing, communication – what means, what...
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Lumière Festival: Restorations ‘Non-Negotiable’ for Video Streaming Deals,...
LYON, France — With U.S. video streaming platforms advancing across Europe and the rest of the world, restorations are a necessity if French film distributors want to ensure a future for their...
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Lumière Festival: Bertrand Tavernier on His Lifelong Love of Classic Westerns
This year’s 9th Lumière Festival includes a section dedicated to classic American Westerns, selected by French helmer Bertrand Tavernier (“The French Minister”), who is also curating a collection of...
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France’s UniversCine Offers Much More Than Standard Streaming and...
LYON — In 2015, vinyl sales went up 53% to hit a 25-year-high, whatever the low base, while this year physical book sales have overtaken digital. In the world of film, there are still plenty of people...
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Lumière Festival: Le CiNéMa Club’s CEO Marie-Louise Khondji on Financing a...
LYON – In town for a panel on VOD and streaming platforms at this year’s Lumière Festival is Le CiNéMa Club, www.lecinemaclub.com, a web-based streaming-platform for classic and under-represented...
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Lumière Festival: ’Gertie the Dinosaur,’ ‘Professor Balthazar’ Reanimated...
LYON, France — The Lumière Film Festival’s International Classic Film Market put the spotlight on conservation and restoration of classic animated films on Wednesday, offering an examination of both...
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