The town of Oporto, each scene followed by a glimpse of the work of the water colourist Antonio Cruz.

Manoel de Oliveira - Il Pittore e la Città.avi

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The post Manoel de Oliveira – O Pintor e a Cidade AKA The Artist and the City (1956) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Inasmuch as Manoel de Oliveira’s films convey what Randal Johnson describes as a cinematic hybridity that illustrates the amorphous nature of representation, No, or the Vain Glory of Command also reflects a temporal hybridity, where time is presented as a conflation of seemingly arbitrary, but integrally connected history. Opening to a long take of a large ancient tree shot from a moving camera platform in the African wilderness, the correlation between enduring image and its representation through a constantly shifting point of view also serves as a contemporary metaphor for Portuguese history itself, where its consequences continue to be re-evaluated through the shifting perspective of an increasingly marginalized legacy. Shot in 1990 as a historical fiction on the waning days of Estado Novo and colonialism under the Salazar regime that crystallized with the Revolution of 1974, the film further incorporates a tertiary, non-fictional chronology, as the soldiers sent to Angola to suppress the insurgency and maintain control of the “overseas provinces” (even as the country faces its own domestic crisis resulting from dissatisfaction with the repressive government) revisit the decisive battles and pivotal events that would shape the course of Portuguese history.

Non.ou.a.Van.Gloria.de.Mandar.1990.720p.WEBRip.x264-MaZ.mkv

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Language(s):Portuguese, Spanish
Subtitles:Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Italian

The post Manoel de Oliveira – ‘Non’, ou A Vã Glória de Mandar AKA No, or the Vain Glory of Command (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In this artful film by 85-year old director Manoel de Oliveira, the heroine, instead of being powerless in the face of a world ruled by men, finds herself to be far too powerful. Beginning when she was a child, Ema (Leonor Silveira as an adult) had the kind of looks and manner that could stop cars when she came up to a street — or cause accidents. As time goes by, she explores her power over men and, as a mature woman, chooses to marry a man who has virtually no machismo so that she can continue having affairs and exploring this mysterious ability of hers. Eventually she seeks to transcend her unusual limitation and accomplishes her death with astonishing serenity. This haunting story is based on a novel by Agustina Bessa-Luis.

Abraham's.Valley.1993.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Subtitles:English

The post Manoel de Oliveira – Vale Abraão AKA Abraham’s Valley (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Ignoring the alarmed advice of his noblemen and counselors, young King Sebastian fuels his religious obsession to go to war with the Muslims. They warn that Portugal can’t afford it, but he brushes them off. Even his mother, Queen Catarina, cannot sway his fervor to fight the infidels, expand his kingdom and achieve glory. A mysterious figure called the Holy Cobbler challenges his fanatical ideas, calling down ghostly voices to talk to him. But he is no wiser the next morning.

Manoel de Oliveira - (2004) The Fifth Empire.mkv

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Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

The post Manoel de Oliveira – O Quinto Império – Ontem Como Hoje AKA The Fifth Empire (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A docu-drama that follows Manoel de Oliveira’s life during the times of dictatorship in Portugal.

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73-year-old De Oliveira decides to make a personal movie that his audience will only know once heis dead. In 1982, the director takes the decision to make a movie about (and in) his (ex) house, in which he lived for over 40 years. The initial still shot is held for a long while with the presence oftrees in the garden of his house in Oporto. De Oliveira himself introduces the film and speaks all the credits out. The voices of a man and a woman guide us for most of the first part, in a sort of preliminary and formal tour around the totality of the house. They remain out of frame and the camera perspective is not necessarily theirs. After a few minutes, we see De Oliveira for the first time, writing on a typewriter at his desk. The most surprising element, in narrative terms, is the recreation of his arrest and his stay in a dungeon in times of the Portuguese military regime, during the 60s. Right from the start, the word memoryis a relevant operative term; the confession becomes explicit around half through the film. Semantically, confession is a Christian term; in this case, said tradition is taken for granted. Asin many of his films, we find here a singular Catholicism, perhaps strict but softened by a theologically improper sense of humor. De Oliveira speaks about the absolute, purity, virtue, and even sin. De Oliveira has left for that land from which no one returns to confirm that something continues over there and that life of the spirit goes on without the requirement of the flesh. But we are left with this lucid and flashing legacy, in which the director wards off the menacing narcissistic exhibitionism of a movie about oneself and expresses his peculiar worldview, in which the vertical delight of the mysteries of God coexists with the horizontal grace detected in terrestrial life, in the presence of friends and the generous natural life.

Memories.and.Confessions.1993.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Language(s):Portuguese
Subtitles:English

The post Manoel de Oliveira – Visita ou Memórias e Confissões AKA Memories and Confessions (1982/1993/2015) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In this artful film by 85-year old director Manoel de Oliveira, the heroine, instead of being powerless in the face of a world ruled by men, finds herself to be far too powerful. Beginning when she was a child, Ema (Leonor Silveira as an adult) had the kind of looks and manner that could stop cars when she came up to a street — or cause accidents. As time goes by, she explores her power over men and, as a mature woman, chooses to marry a man who has virtually no machismo so that she can continue having affairs and exploring this mysterious ability of hers. Eventually she seeks to transcend her unusual limitation and accomplishes her death with astonishing serenity. This haunting story is based on a novel by Agustina Bessa-Luis.

Manoel de Oliveira - (1993) Abraham's Valley.mkv

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The post Manoel de Oliveira – Vale Abraão AKA Abraham’s Valley (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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I’m Going Home (French: Je rentre à la maison, Portuguese: Vou Para Casa) is a 2001 French-Portuguese film written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira.

Gilbert Valence (Michel Piccoli) is a grand old theatre actor who receives the shocking news that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident. As time passes, Valence busies himself with his daily life in Paris, turning down unsuitable roles in low-brow television productions and looking after his 9-year-old grandson. When an American filmmaker (John Malkovich) miscasts him in an ill-conceived adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Valence finds himself compelled to make a decision about his life.

In the review website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has 96% with 52 reviews. It was one of the films in competition for the Palme d’Or in the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Critics Award for Best Film at the 2001 São Paulo International Film Festival and the Golden Anchor Award at the 2002 Haifa International Film Festival. It also won the Globo de Ouro for Best Film at the 2002 Globos de Ouro. Michel Piccoli was nominated for Best Actor at the 2001 European Film Awards.

“Always good to see Michel Piccoli – in Manoel de Oliveira’s film he plays a grand old stage actor who has recently lost his family [-] few cameras stare so intently at things as de Oliveira’s, and the long excerpts he films from Ionesco and The Tempest are frankly de trop, but this patient detailing of an actor’s life has a fascination akin to watching a sun slowly disappear beneath the horizon.”

Manoel de Oliveira - (2001) I'm Going Home.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/DB563EC904A613D/Manoel_de_Oliveira_-_(2001)_I’m_Going_Home.mkv

Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:English

The post Manoel de Oliveira – Je rentre à la maison AKA I’m Going Home (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.