The Oldest Film Director in the World
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Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira
Manoel de Oliveira was born in Oporto, Portugal, on December 11 (but he was only registry in the next day) of 1908, to a family of wealthy industrialists. Since his early days he desired to become an actor, later he decided that it would be best to become film maker. He made some distinctive representation as actor like in the second Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa (1933).
His first film as a director was made in 1942, Aniki-Bóbó, and it was about a poor boy who lived in Oporto streets.
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Abraham's Valley
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I'm Going Home
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Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember
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Urucuia
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Filmography
- Douro, Faina Fluvial (documentary, 1931)
- Estátuas de Lisboa (documentary, 1932)
- Os Últimos Temporais: Cheias do Tejo (documentary, 1937)
- Miramar, Praia das Rosas (documentary, 1938)
- Já se fabricam automóveis em Portugal (documentary, 1938)
- Famalicão (documentary, 1941)
- Aniki-Bóbó (1942)
- O Pintor e a Cidade (documentary, 1956)
- O Coração (documentary, 1958)
- O Pão (documentary, 1959)
- Acto de Primavera (1963)
- A Caça (1963)
- Villa Verdinho: Uma Aldeia Transmontana (documentary, 1964)
- As Pinturas do Meu Irmão Júlio (documentary, 1965)
- O Passado e o Presente (1971)
- Benilde ou a Virgem Mãe (1974)
- Amor de Perdição (1978)
- Francisca (1981)
- Visita ou Memórias e Confissões (1982)
- Lisboa Cultural (documentary, 1983)
- Nice... À Propos de Jean Vigo (documentary, 1983)
- Le Soulier de Satin (1985)
- Mon Cas (1987)
- A Propósito da Bandeira Nacional (1987)
- Os Canibais (1988)
- Non, ou A Vã Glória de Mandar (1990)
- A Divina Comédia (1991)
- O Dia do Desespero (1992)
- Vale Abraão (1993)
- A Caixa (1994)
- O Convento (1995)
- Party (1996)
- Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo (1997)
- Inquietude (1998)
- La Lettre (1999)
- Palavra e Utopia (2000)
- Je Rentre a la Maison (2001)
- Porto da Minha Infância (2001)
- O Princípio da Incerteza (2002)
- Momento (2002)
- Um Filme Falado (2003)
- O Quinto Império: Ontem Como Hoje (2004)
- Espelho Mágico (2005)
- Do Visível ao Invisível (2005)
- Belle Toujours (2006)
- O Improvável não é Impossível (2006)
- Cristóvão Colombo - O Enigma (2007)
Vale Abraão (Abraham valley movie trailer)
A Carta / La Lettre (movie trailer)
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Relevant links
- Against the Grain: On the Cinematic Vision of Manoel de Oliveira
Randal Johnson is professor of Luso-Brazilian literature and culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author or editor of numerous books on Brazilian cinema, and he is currently engaged in research on Portuguese cinema, with a
- Manoel de Oliveira @ IMDb
The Internet movie database. With lots of interesting informations.
'Espelho Mágico' / 'Magic Mirror' (movie trailer)
Today with 99 years old...
... he is still working and he is the Portuguese film director with more awards. Since 2001, he is the oldest director in the world who is still active, and remains one of the most influential film makers in Europe.
"Cristóvão Colombo - O Enigma" (Christopher Columbus - The enigma) is the last film he directed so far and as strange as you can imagine he still have two projects in mind!
I can tell you, he is like the Oporto wine: "He only gets better, improving year after year!".
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The National Film Board of Canada has produced a documentary called Capturing Reality: The Art of the Documentary, and the website is incredible, featuring over 160 interview clips. Here's their description of the doc: Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary is a film about contemporary documentary cinema and features some rock stars of the genre, including Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Alanis Obomsawin, Michel Brault, Nick Broomfield, Kim Longinotto and Werner Herzog. Thirty-three filmmakers from 14 countries share their passion for documentary and talk about the artistic and ethical choices they make in their craft. Capturing Reality premiered at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and has been making the rounds on the...
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Producer Jake Abraham, well known to Filmmaker readers on account of his long tenure at InDigEnt Films, is a producer of Kirt Gunn's festival charmer Lovely By Surprise. He's taking the film out in a DIY-sort of way, and I'm going to spoil the closer of the article he's just written for us over at Web Exclusives by reprinting it here: Our release date is today, July 7th. It feels different than opening days in the past. No premiere party, no box office reports. The effects of our plan will begin to appear over the next few weeks as we see how well the promotion has worked. Yet, our job is far from over. We will continue to actively promote the film for at least the next six months, far longer than I’ve ever worked on a film when it was...
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Fun ride I lke your hubs!
WOWOWOW!The oldest film director?Loved you hub and thanks for the information.
It is surprising how he is working in this ripe old age!!!
Thank you all! I´m glad you like it.
I grow up hearing many people talking about Manuel de Oliveira saying that his movies where boring and lack of interest, know everyone in Portugal have to admit his a great professional and even greater Human! I hope he can finish all his work like he always did!
Cool, I could have put a link to this hub in my famous birthday hubs..when the 11th december comes round!
Great hub;)
Wow... good for him..!! That's amazing!
An amazing man, indeed!
That's how we should grow old, doing the thing we do best!
My idea of a great life.
Great HUB
regards Zsuzsy
Nice to know about this director, is it possible to see full length films of his in Google Video? We hardly get any Italian movies here only a few that comes. I like Roberto Benigni, he is real funny in Johnny Stecchino :)
For those who wish to see some of his work Manuel de Oliveira is in NY (Brooklyn Academy of Music) today for a homage of his career. 28 of his movies will be displayed there until March 30th. Other US cities where you can watch his movies: Harvard (March 15 to 29), Cleveland (May 17 to 27), Chicago (July 5 to 31), S.Francisco (July 1 to August 31) and Berkeley (I don´t now when, sorry).
Happy 100th birthday Mr. Manoel de Oliveira! I found this page and I saw that today it´s your birthday.
It´s amazing how active and young you still look. I´m looking forward to watch your latest work. Take care.
Hi FilmLover, thanks for the heads up. I would not remembered to come here if you didn´t comment today. It´s really amazing to see how vital and charismatic he still is after 100 years of live. I was listening to the radio news this morning on the way to work and I heard Manoel de Oliveira talking about the way he feels about the cinematography industry and how he believes he´s only a leaf on the big tree of film directors. It´s very nice to hear such a modest comment coming from such a great director.
I wish Mr. Manoel de Oliveira lots of health, happiness and much more years to keep showing all of us the joy of living.
Thank you!
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myaddiction says:
2 years ago
Wow. Really amazing.