COMENIUS

PROJECT: THE

CINEMA IN

FRANCE

Summary:

1 The beginning of the cinema

2 Kind of movies…

3 Actors and films producers

4 Heritage cinema

5 The cinema in the world

6 How is the cinema in Lyon

and for who is it ?

1 The beginning of the cinema

The cinema was born in our city (Lyon) in 1895. August

and Louis Lumiere are the first who invented the

cinema with the help of different materials like:

thaumatrope:

Praxinoscope:

Kinescope:

Their technical was moving a lot of pictures with their

specific equipment and since this evenement it was

the birth of the cinema and the origin of the first film

projection, in 1895, in Paris. In France, we call the

cinema the seventh art. August and Louis are brothers

and we call them the Lumière brothers (in French: Les

frères Lumière).

Many places in Lyon are bearing The Lumiere name,

for example: universities, subway stations, high

schools, institutes...

An university

The subway station

A high school

Near the subway station, there is the house of august

and Louis. Today their house is a museum of the

cinematography.

2 Kind of movies…

There are a lot of kinds of films: horror, adventure,

science fiction Action, Comedy, Fantastic, Drama,

cartoons (ex: Roi lion, Age de Glace), Suspense…In our

cinema, we can find all the kinds of films. We can also

choose how to lo watch our film, for example the 3D,

4D, 5D, 6D, and 7D. Watching a film in 3D version is

more expansive than watching a normal film if you

buy the glasses, if not you pay 6 euro 80. 4D film or 4-

D film is a marketing term for an entertainment

presentation system combining a 3D film with physical

effects. 4D films have occasionally been marketed as

5D, 6D, or 7D films in order to emphasize the variety

or uniqueness of their theatre effects. However, there

is no consistent standard among films for the

application of these marketing labels. In Lyon, people

can watch 5D film but that is more expensive( 5 euro

for 5 minutes) because you can smell, move, feel,

touch while watching the film.

3 Actors and films Producers

Some actors in France: Josiane Belasko, Sophie

Marceau, Louise Monot , VanessaParadis, Annie

Girardot , Nathalie Baye, Sandrine Kiberlain , Lionel

Abelanski‎, Ary Abittan‎, Simon Abkarian‎, Marcel

Achard, Kev Adams‎, Leyla Bekhti… Some scenarists:

Alfred Adam, Pascal Elbé‎, Magà

Ettori‎ , Gérard Oury‎ , Chapour Haghighat‎ , Miche

Hazanavicius‎ ,Francis Huster‎ …4 Cinema

heritages

The cinema of the heritage is the cinema of our

country or for our fathers. The films that are in the

French heritage are generally black and white and it

project in art-house places like: Les Alysée, CNP

Bellecour, CNP Terreaux, Le cinema, Cinema Opéra and

Ciné Duchère. To have information about cinema, we

can go to the cinématheque where we can find a lot of

CD of films. In Lyon, we can go to an institute. This

institute is a museum and a library where we can

meet famous actors and film producers too. The

students can have cinema education; they can go to

The Lumiere high school or The high school of the First

Film (lycée du premier film) in Lyon. In the TV, many

movies project nearly every evening in different

channel: France 5, France 2, m6, w9…for the old films

and Canal+ for the recants films but this channel is

paying. There are cinema festivals like Lumiere festival

or the Short Film festival. Every year there is a cinema

festival where there are prices for the best actors, the

best movies… (For example: Gérard Depardieu who is

very popular in France because he won very prices like

Cesar, Oscar…) Some French popularly films: Les

aventures d’Amélie Poulain, Les choristes, le Pacte des

loups, Le transporteur, Ne le dis à personne,

Intouchables…

5 The cinema in the world

Many films, actors and scenarists in the world are

coming from USA so the films in France, Turkey, Spain,

Belgic and Italia are the most Americans.

In Belgic: The Kinepolis Group is a Belgian chain of

movie theatres conceived in 1997 which consist of 23

Cinema complexes in Europe, representing a total of

317 theatres. They received about 22 million visitors in

2008. Kinepolis is listed on the Brussels stock

exchange.

In Spain: The art of motion-picture making within the

Kingdom of Spain or by Spanish filmmakers abroad is

collectively known as Spanish Cinema.

In recent years, Spanish cinema has achieved high

marks of recognition. In the long history of Spanish

cinema, the great filmmaker Luis Buñuel was the first

to achieve universal recognition, followed by Pedro

Almodóvar in the 1980s. Spanish cinema has also seen

international success over the years with films by

directors like Segundo de Chomón, Florián Rey, Luis

García Berlanga, Juan Antonio Bardem, Carlos Saura,

Julio Médem and Alejandro Amenábar. Woody Allen,

upon receiving the prestigious Prince of Asturias

Award in 2002 in Oviedo remarked: "when I left New

York, the most exciting film in the city at the time was

Spanish, Pedro Almodovar's one. I hope that

Europeans will continue to lead the way in film

making because at the moment not much is coming

from the United States.

In Italia: The cinema of Italy traces the development of

Italian cinema which began just a few months after

the first public film screening by the French Lumière

brothers, which took place in Paris on 28 December

1895.[1] The Lumière brothers commenced public

screenings in Italy in 1896: in March 1896, in Rome

and Milan; in April in Naples, Salerno and Bari; in June

in Livorno; in August in Bergamo, Bologna and

Ravenna; in October in Ancona and in December in

Turin, Pescara and Reggio Calabria. Local film

production commenced in 1903.

In Turkey: Turkish cinema is an important part of

Turkish culture, and has flourished over the years,

delivering entertainment to audiences in Turkey,

expatriates across Europe, more recently prospering in

the Arab world and in rare cases, the USA.

6 How is the cinema in Lyon

and for who is it ?

There are films for the children, for the adults, for the

students, for the heritage and for the education. In

Lyon, every student in high-school have M’RA card,

with it you can go to the cinema 5 times gratis. Wa

have a lot of cinema in our city: Cinema Comoedia,

Bellecombe, CNP Terreaux, Pathé Lyon, Bellecour, UGC,

Astoria, CNP Bellecour , UGC Part-dieu and UGC cite

international. There are around 20 films per month.

The children, in primary school and high-school go

three time to the cinema with their teacher.