Lumière Chief Programmer Maelle Arnaud: ‘Film History Doesn’t Have Parity’
LYON, France — As the Lumière Institute’s head programmer since 2001, Maelle Arnaud helped launched the Lumière Festival in 2009 and has watched it grow in international esteem over the decade that...
View ArticleFrance’s Lumiere Festival Confirms Dates, Michel Audiard, Clarence Brown...
In a reaffirmation of its ambitions to hold an on-site event this year, France’s Lumière Festival, run by filmmaker and film historian Bertrand Tavernier and Cannes Festival head Thierry Frémaux, has...
View ArticleLumiere Fest Honors the Dardenne Brothers’ Career of Uncompromising Realism
When Jean-Luc and Pierre Dardenne won the Palme d’Or for “Rosetta” in 1999 — upending such hotly fancied contenders as Pedro Almodovar’s “All About My Mother” — it wasn’t exactly an out-of-nowhere...
View ArticleOliver Stone, Feted at France’s Lumiere Festival, Talks Trump, Inspiration,...
“À la recherche de la Lumière” – the French title of Oliver Stone’s memoirs, “Chasing the Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood,” couldn’t find a more fitting place than Lyon’s Lumière Festival to...
View ArticleUp Close and Personal With Viggo Mortensen, the Director
No need to introduce Viggo Mortensen, the multi-award winning actor, whose most recent accolade was a career achievement Donostia Award at the San Sebastian Festival last month. But the Lumière classic...
View ArticleBertrand Tavernier on Michel Audiard’s Turn of Phrase, Sabine Azéma and...
The COVID-19 crisis has devastated cinema attendance. Several major cinema chains have closed around the world. In the face of adversity, this year’s 12th edition of the Lumière Festival in France’s...
View ArticleThomas Vinterberg on Mads Mikkelsen’s ‘Another Round,’ Losing Control and...
What if maintaining a constant amount of alcohol in your blood could open your mind, boost creativity, and generally improve your life? That’s the premise of Thomas Vinterberg’s new movie, which he...
View ArticleItalian Filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher on the Sacred, Politics, Cultural Genocide
Italian director Alice Rohrwacher presented her latest short film on Tuesday at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, where she was guest of honor. The filmmaker was visibly moved as she took to the stage...
View ArticleCinemateca Portuguesa Unveils Restored Classics at Lyon’s Lumiere Festival
The Lumière Festival’s Classic Film Market (MIFC) in Lyon, France, is spotlighting efforts in Portugal to digitize and preserve the nation’s film heritage as part of this year’s country focus. Portugal...
View ArticleFrench Classic Film Distributors Potemkine, City Films, Argos Explore Novel...
While the global pandemic caused cinema theaters in France to close for the first time ever (“Even the war didn’t close down cinemas!” exclaimed Lumière Festival director Thierry Frémaux on opening...
View ArticleAssociation of European Film Archives President Calls for Greater Access to...
Sandra den Hamer, president of the Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques (ACE) and director of the Netherlands’ Eye Filmmuseum, has called for a European framework to facilitate the...
View ArticleMelina Mercouri Celebrated at Lumiere Film Festival Tribute
The Lumiere Film Festival paid homage to Greek actress, singer and politician Melina Mercouri this week with a mini-retrospective on what would have been the centenary of her birth. The centerpiece...
View ArticleMichel Audiard’s ‘Hidden Gem’ of French Post-War Noir, ‘The Night Affair,’...
The hallmarks of screenwriter Michel Audiard – slang-laden dialogue, absurd situations and explosive confrontations – are all in evidence in Gilles Grangier’s “The Night Affair” (“Le Désordre et la...
View ArticleCannes Director Thierry Frémaux Remembers Bertrand Tavernier: ‘He Would Push...
I met Bertrand Tavernier in Lyon in 1982 at the Chateau Lumiere when he came to announce that he was going to become the first president of the Institut Lumière. He had just come off “Coup de Torchon”...
View ArticleLumière Festival’s Classic Film Market Sees Growing Interest in Heritage...
The Lumière Festival’s International Classic Film Market (MIFC) in Lyon, France, bows Tuesday, again bringing together distributors, exhibitors, streamers, TV programmers, film restorers and festival...
View ArticleActresses-Turned-Directors Kinuyo Tanaka, Rebecca Hall & Maggie Gyllenhaal...
An event like the Festival Lumière, with its wide remit that sees classic films and retrospectives rub shoulders with the very latest and chic-est new titles, is always going to boast a thicket of...
View ArticleJane Campion: Still Ahead of Her Time
When French filmmaker Julia Ducournau took the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year for “Titane,” her wild explosion of body horror and gender politics, Jane Campion’s status in film history shifted...
View ArticleAltered Innocence to Bow Classic LGBTQ Pics, Such as ’The Wounded Man,’ as...
A restored version of Iván Zulueta’s ground-breaking 1979 film “Arrebato” (“Rapture”) is screening at the Lumière Festival’s International Classic Film Market (MIFC) in Lyon, France, thanks to Los...
View ArticleThe Lumière Festival Presents A Trio of Stunning Meiko Kaji Movies
30 years after Japanese moviegoers first heard “The Flower of Carnage,” the theme song of Toshio Fujita’s “Lady Snowblood” sung by star Meiko Kaji, it came to mainstream Western audiences via Quentin...
View ArticleJames Gray Gets Up Close and Personal
U.S. film writer and director James Gray (“Little Odessa”, “Two Lovers”, “The Immigrant”, “Armageddon Time”) drew several laugh-out-loud moments from a packed theatre during a masterclass at the...
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