This is known by the name of cinematographe and was perfected in the great photographic laboratory of Messrs. Lumiere, in Lyons. The remarkable feature about it is that the figures not only go through ...

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Late playwright and performance artist Gray first performed "Swimming to Cambodia" on stage in 1985, two years after shooting Joffé's film in which he played a U.S. Ambassador's aide. Demme ...

The movies might never have split in two if Antoine Lumière had been more interested in a quick buck. Among the audience at the sparsely attended 1895 demonstration of his sons Louis and Auguste ...

The curators behind Vinegar Syndrome, Radiance, Fun City, and Cinématographe are keeping jewels of film history from falling through the cracks. “The canon of American cinema from the late ...

On December 28, 1895, a marvelous invention was unveiled in the basement of the Grand Café: the Cinématographe, a camera and projector that would pave the way for commercial movie showings. A ...

In this picture we see how the artists engaged to pose for the pictures make the scene so realistic that they get themselves into all kinds of trouble in the city where people are not familiar ...

Considering the art of cinema was born in France, knowing when to start with the most important films of the country’s cinematic history can be a daunting task. From the Lumière brothers ...

In 1895, Louis and Auguste Lumière gave birth to the big screen thanks to their revolutionary camera and projector, the Cinématographe. Auguste (left) and Louis Lumière in a photograph believed ...

One of Jonathan Demme’s underseen but pivotal nonfiction films is coming to high-definition home video for the very first time. “Swimming to Cambodia,” a condensed version of Spalding Gray ...

One of Jonathan Demme’s underseen but pivotal nonfiction films is coming to high-definition home video for the very first ...