The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel Society" (SPAC), under the technical supervision of António Lopes Ribeiro. It was conceived and employed as part of the propaganda machinery of Salazar's regime. Screened in cinema theatres prior to the main feature film, each issue of J...
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, Luís Miarro, and I, with our diverse gazes, we undertake this "Uncertain Journey", wandering around the threshold where life and cinema intertwine. Facing –as a citizen and as a filmmaker– the identity crisis that floods Europe, I look backwards in search for lights of hope, and I admire how my daughter Alicia, at the...
'Duarte de Almeida', director of the Portuguese National Film Archives [deceased in 2009], interviews the dean of contemporaneous film directors [96-years-old then]. Two humanists of different philosophical backgrounds, both with their long, entire lives dedicated to culture in general (music, painting, literature) and to film in particular, discuss freely, sometimes haltingly,...
Based on one of the most important and popular works of Portuguese literature, Doomed Love was recently revealed to North American audiences as one of de Oliveira’s greatest works. Closely following Camilo Castelo Branco’s eponymous novel from 1862, de Oliveira creates a radical and unprecedented fusion of theatre, literature and cinema, which, according to Jonathan Rosenbaum, ...
这是一部纪录片,纪录了葡萄牙多罗河横穿波尔多市的时候两岸的情景;有工人们卸船、装船的场面,女工劳动时的气氛,同时也记录了多罗河上的桥梁与缓缓流动的河水。写实却不乏浪漫,充满生活旨趣。
奥利维拉作为导演的第一部作品,受瓦尔特鲁特曼《柏林:城市交响曲》影响,用父亲购买的摄影相机拍摄而成。本片受巴罗斯助理导演发掘而得到放映,成为了这一时期葡萄牙电影的代表作。