Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Thierry Frémaux’s LUMIÈRE, LE CINÉMA! (2025)–a profound retelling of the origins of cinema comprised of over a hundred newly restored Lumière works–is now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel: criterionchannel.com/lumiere-le-cinema
Director of the Cannes Film Festival and the Institut Lumière, Thierry Frémaux tells Peter Becker, president of the Criterion Collection, why the 50-second cinematograph films of Auguste and Louis Lumière should be celebrated as the very first steps in the adventure of cinema, in this excerpt from a new interview that is now available on the Criterion Channel: criterionchannel.com/lumiere-le-cinema/videos/thierry-fremaux-interview
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Thierry Frémaux’s LUMIÈRE, LE CINÉMA! (2025)–a profound retelling of the origins of cinema comprised of over a hundred newly restored Lumière works–is now streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel: criterionchannel.com/lumiere-le-cinema
Director of the Cannes Film Festival and the Institut Lumière, Thierry Frémaux tells Peter Becker, president of the Criterion Collection, why the 50-second cinematograph films of Auguste and Louis Lumière should be celebrated as the very first steps in the adventure of cinema, in this excerpt from a new interview that is now available on the Criterion Channel: criterionchannel.com/lumiere-le-cinema/videos/thierry-fremaux-interview
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