Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel de Oliveira

Manoel DE OLIVEIRA (1908-2015, Portugal), the world's oldest filmmaker, died on 2 April 2015 at the age of 106. The Portuguese master debuted in the era of silent film, but created a grand and unique oeuvre, especially after his 70th birthday. From the 1980s onwards, he made roughly one film a year, in which he repeatedly managed to reinvent himself and the cinematographic language.

Filmography

Douro, faina fluvial (1931, short doc), Famalicao (1939, short), Aniki-Bobo (1942), O pintor e a cidade (1956), O coracao (1958), O pao (1959), As pinturas do meu irmao Júlio (1959), Acto da primavera (1963), A caça (1963, short), Porto 1100 anos inauguraçao de uma estátua (1970, short), Sever dovouga... uma experiência (1971, short), O passado e o presente (1971), Benilde ou a virgem-mae (1975), Amor de perdiçao (1978), Francisca (1981), A visita - memórias e confissoes (1982), Lisboa cultural/Cultural Lisbon (1982), Nice... à propos de Jean Vigo (1983), O sapato de cetim/Le soulier de satin (1985), Simpsio International de esculptura (1985), O meu caso/Mon cas (1986), Os canibais (1988), Non ou a va glória de mandar (1990), A divina comédia (1991), O dia do desespero/The Day of Despair/De dag van de wanhoop (1992), Vale Abraao (1993), A Caixa (1994), O Convento/The Convent (1995), Party (1996), Viagem ao principio do mundo (1997), Inquiétude/Anxiety (1998), A carta/The Letter (1999), Palavra e utopia/Word and Utopia (2000), Je rentre à la maison/Vou para casa (2001), Porto da minha infância/Oporto of my Childhood (2001), O princpio da incerteza/The Uncertainty Principle (2002), - O Quinto Império - Ontem como hoje (2004), Espelho Magico/Magic Mirror (2005), Belle toujours (2006), O improvável nao é impossível (2006), Rencontre unique (2007), Chacun son cinéma ou ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence/To Each His Cinema (segment Rencontre unique, 2007), Cristóvao Colombo - O enigma (2007), O vitral e a santa morta (2008), Romance de vila do condo (2008), Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura (2009), O estranho caso de Angélica/The Strange Case of Angelica (2010), Centro histórico (2012, co-dir), O Gebo e a sombra/Gebo and the Shadow (2012), O velho do restelo/The Old Man of Belém (2014, short) Chafariz das Virtudes (2014, short), Um século de energia (2015, short doc)

Manoel de Oliveira at IFFR