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Lumière et compagnie

Lumière et compagnie

Liv Ullmann, David Lynch 1995 1h 28m 6.0

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.

Death and the Compass

Death and the Compass

Alex Cox 1992 1h 26m 5.0

In a nightmare city inhabited only by criminals and police... a mystic detective finds a tool to catch a villainous outlaw. Death and the Compass is British director Alex Cox's second Mexican feature. Based on the short story Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges, the film is in English, and stars Peter Boyle as Erik Lönnrot.

Un vivant qui passe

Un vivant qui passe

Claude Lanzmann 1999 1h 8m 7.0

An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.