Portugal

[ze424]

I'm portuguese and I'm curious to know how well is our stuff known around the world (even though I don't know much)

Do you know any portuguese movies?actors?directors?
Do you like them?

[DarkStorm]

Originally posted by ze424
I'm portuguese and I'm curious to know how well is our stuff known around the world (even though I don't know much)

Do you know any portuguese movies?actors?directors?
Do you like them?


I'm drawing complete blanks here. Perhaps if you shared some titles you enjoy I will check them out and let you know.

[Slim]

Nope. Not familiar with any Portuguese movies. What's worth checking out in your opinion?

[ze424]

Originally posted by Slim
Nope. Not familiar with any Portuguese movies. What's worth checking out in your opinion?

I was just curious if anyone knew anything 'cause honestly I say "stay away from portuguese movies". The portuguese people has a preconcieved thought that portuguese cinema is only for intelectuals and critics so we always say it sucks...I can only reccomend a couple of movies from the 30's vut you probably won't be able to find them subtitled...

O Leão Da Estrela
A Cantiga De Lisboa

[Shakamaker]

Originally posted by ze424
I was just curious if anyone knew anything 'cause honestly I say "stay away from portuguese movies". The portuguese people has a preconcieved thought that portuguese cinema is only for intelectuals and critics so we always say it sucks...I can only reccomend a couple of movies from the 30's vut you probably won't be able to find them subtitled...

O Leão Da Estrela
A Cantiga De Lisboa

And what more recent films do the critics and intellectuals recommend? Of them, which have been distributed overseas? Any good sites we can check out?

[Damned Martian]

Originally posted by ze424
Do you know any portuguese movies?actors?directors?
Do you like them? My acknowledge starts with Joaquim de Almeida and Maria de Medeiros, both great actors that have worked also here in Spain... and it also ends there. I can't think right now in any portuguese movie... maybe the one Medeiros directed, about the battle of the roses... but i haven't seen it...:o

[ze424]

Originally posted by damned martian
My acknowledge starts with Joaquim de Almeida and Maria de Medeiros, both great actors that have worked also here in Spain... and it also ends there. I can't think right now in any portuguese movie... maybe the one Medeiros directed, about the battle of the roses... but i haven't seen it...:o


yes, Capitães de Abril...I forgot it, that was pretty good.

recently...well, the critics always like two directors...Manoel De Oliveira (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0210701/) (has worked several times with John Malkovich) and João César Monteiro (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0599214/) . Last year there was a movie which was in a good position to be nominated for the Oscar (Foreign Language) but it didn't ...it's called O Delfim (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0175557/)

[Damned Martian]

Originally posted by ze424
Manoel De Oliveira (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0210701/) (has worked several times with John Malkovich) and João César Monteiro (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0599214/) I know Oliveira, but not the other. Anyway, I haven't seen any of his films, they look deadly boring :D

[ze424]

Originally posted by damned martian
I know Oliveira, but not the other. Anyway, I haven't seen any of his films, they look deadly boring :D


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[sanshodayu]

I only wish more Portuguese films were widely screened internationally.

Oliveira's Abraham Valley (an elegant and enigmatic transposition of madame Bovary to the beautiful Douro valley) is a masterpiece, and his regular actress Leonor Silveira is superb in it. Oliveira is still going strong, well into his 90's, a film-maker over 9 decades. Beat that! He should be a worldwide legend.

I'm also very keen on petite Maria de Medeiros, of Pulp Fiction (pot belly) fame. She also starred with Uma Thurman as Anais Nin in the erotic Henry and June (the characters had a fling; good to see the actresses reunited in Pulp Fiction), and i see she's now gone into directing.

I obtained a result of the Portuguese Cinemateca's international poll of top European films from 1995. Anini Bobo, Amor de Perdicao, Abraham Valley (all by Oliveira) and Recollections of the Yelllow House (Monteiro) were the highest Portuguese films.

[sanshodayu]

Aniki (not Anini) Bobo, sorry. It's a neo-realist classic from 1942.