Fernando Lopes
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Biography: Fernando Lopes, GCIH was a Portuguese film director. He was a Film teacher at the Portuguese National Conservatory, nowadays the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). He died, aged 76, in Lisbon due to throat cancer.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Alvaiázere, Portugal
Birthday: December 28, 1936
Deathday: May 02, 2012
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Fernando Lopes, Provavelmente
Overview: Fernando Lopes in the first person: through his words and films, from the village where he was born until Lisbon of present time, we discover the themes and emotions of the work of one of the main authors of portuguese "Cinema Novo".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-03-05
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Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
Overview: Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer’s personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes. Shot with the purpose to document his work in the same way Carlos de Oliveira documented his hometown in Gândara, the film uses all the creative liberty that new digital technology allows in order to recreate the visual and sound records that were also present in the writer and poet’s own work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
Overview: He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Macedo?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2016-10-29
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98 Octanas
Overview: He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2006-03-14
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Recollections of the Yellow House
Overview: Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
Overview: The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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Senhor X
Overview: Cinema is the true life.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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No Tempo do Cinema
Overview: A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-21
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A Felicidade
Overview: A father and a son. The father will be seventy years old, the son is in his twenties. The son drives the father to the hospital. Classical music in the radio. The father did not know that the son liked classical music, and the son did not know that that would be the last time he would speak to his father. But Mozart asks that souls rejoice, that men rejoice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-23
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Acts of Cinema
Overview: Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-10-01
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The Lovebirds
Overview: THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who create a colorful mix of off-beat characters that lead us through a complex labyrinth of emotions. Set in the old Romanesque city of Lisbon during the course of one night where love is the art of survival. Written by Anonymous
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-13
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Michael Biberstein - My Friend Mike at Work
Overview: Mike, half Swiss, half American, is a friend of Portuguese director Fernando Lopes. He’s a painter and has been living in Portugal for 30 years, making him also Portuguese. His stage name is Michael Biberstein. His internationally acclaimed works belong to some of the most important collections and museums around the world. He and Fernando Lopes decided to embrace this adventure after a conversation they had in a mutual friend’s house. The result is this movie: an inner journey about the creation of a painting where its silence, its mystery and magic were filmed.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-08-17
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