Lumiere's Train (Arriving at the Station)
Lumiere's Train (Arriving at the Station) is one of the most talked-about movies released in 1979, attracting audiences with its cinematic storytelling and memorable performances.
The subject of the first essay is cinema itself: an apparatus of representation wherein fact and fiction are recreated. As such, the pro-filmic facts are necessarily drawn from two of cinema's "pioneers": Louis and Auguste Lumière and Abel Gance (La Roue), with additional material provided from a Warner Brothers featurette, Spills for Thrills.
