Classic Film Champ Thierry Frémaux Celebrates the 130th Anniversary of Cinema With Feature-Length Lumière Film
variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film Critic All eyes are on Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux as he decides which films make the cut for the upcoming festival.
Meanwhile, in his other job as head of the Institut Lumière, he directs film lovers’ gaze to the origins of the medium. The Lyon-based museum is built on the site where, on March 19, 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière debuted the invention they later christened the Cinematograph, recording a crowd of workers leaving the family’s photographic supply factory.
Now, 130 years later, those figures frozen in celluloid flutter to life again in “Lumiere! The Adventure Continues,” which assembles nearly 100 pioneering examples, with Frémaux directing and narrating.
The project is an extension of a decades-long effort to share and contextualize these early films. “In a way, you could say I was born in Telluride, because I used to do a show at the film festival, where I would screen the Lumière films with commentary,” he explains.
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