| Rank | 1,914 / 30,228 |
|---|---|
| Trend | 1 |
| Genres | Documentary, Biography, History |
| Seasons | 1 |
| Episodes | 16 |
| Total votes | 7,207 |
| Average votes | 450 |
| Average rating | 6.5 / 10 |
Personal and profound look into lives immersed in film. These documentaries about films and culture show the medium's role in love and war, nostalgia and national identity. Cinema was born in the late 19th century when inventors in three different countries almost simultaneously developed the technology to shoot moving film and to project it. The Lumiere Brothers were the first in Paris, 1895. To celebrate cinema's centenary, in 1995 the BFI produced a series of documentaries in which talented directors were invited to contemplate their own national cinemas. The results ranged between highly personal and profoundly universal, and together constitute this collection, Century of Cinema.
Directors: Anne-Marie Miéville, Donald Taylor Black, Edgar Reitz, George Miller, Jang Sun-woo, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Martin Scorsese, Michael Dibb, Michael Henry Wilson, Mrinal Sen, Nagisa Ôshima, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Pawel Lozinski, Sam Neill, Sergey Selyanov, Stanley Kwan, Stephen Frears, Stig Björkman Writers: Edgar Reitz, George Miller, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson, Nagisa Ôshima, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Pawel Lozinski, Sam Neill, Stephen Frears, Stig Björkman Hint: you can examine a particular season more clearly on the graphs if you disable the trendline and all other seasons (via clicking on their labels). Episodes average rating