Manoel de Oliveira on DVD

[Cremildo]

Does any Portuguese forum member know if this great-looking boxset can be acquired from another website? The Portuguese Fnac doesn't deliver overseas. Unfortunately, after doing a Google search twice, I came to the conclusion that the box is a Fnac exclusive, but I hope I'm wrong.

Is it too much to dream with a Manoel de Oliveira Eclipse set? His most admired films are unavailable in the US, the UK and Brazil.

[spectre]

I don't know if anything's changed, but I'm based in Australia and managed to get the Ruiz 'Raridades' box set from the Portuguese FNAC website last year – all I needed to do was to write '000000000' in the NIF box (a Spanish/Portuguese thing that requires customers to enter a citizenship number).

[Cremildo]

Thanks, I'll try that.

Edit: it works. The site does ship overseas after all. But the box set is down to one unit.

[Stefan Andersson]

A new book in French about Oliveira:
https://www.critikat.com/dvd-livres/liv ... -oliveira/

Scroll down to page bottom for live links to other writings about Oliveira on the Critikat site.

[Stefan Andersson]

There has been a festival of short films by MO in Portugal:
http://festival.curtas.pt/pesquisa/film/?id=2009210

On one page (http://festival.curtas.pt/pesquisa/film/?id=2009210) there is information about one of MO´s unfinished Sixties projects, an episode film called "O Palco dum Povo" ("The People´s Stage"), consisting of at least two shorts featuring the poet José Regio - "O Vitral e o Santa Morta" and "Romance da Vila do Conde", both shot in 1965 (though completed only in 2008).

I Google-translated the pertinent info:
"These films should be part of a larger, unfinished project called the "People's Stage". This project, which originally included "The Paintings of My Brother Júlio" - also filmed in the house of Régio in Vila do Conde, which was the only excerpt hitherto known - should show the popular celebrations and pilgrimages, in contrast to the poets and their poetry, painters and their painting, musicians and their contemporary music."

Update:

O Palco dum Povo was originally set to include Acto da Primavera, O Pao and the two José Regio shorts.
Source: http://doc.ubi.pt/10/analise_ana_miranda.pdf


MO also planned "O Palco da Burguesía" (The Borgeouis Stage) according to this scholarly text, in Portuguese, about MO and "Sebastianismo":
http://www.ocec.eu/pdf/2006/xurxo_gonzalez.pdf
This text also has info about other Sixties projects, unfinished because of censorship; among others, "The Year 2000 Will Not Happen" (1958), a Cold War/nuclear war story (compare the images of nuclear disaster at the end of Acto da Primavera).
The notes include references to rare MO literature in Portuguese.

The above might be known already to MO aficionados, but it sounded so tantalizing so I wanted to share it here.

[Stefan Andersson]

Articles on Eccentricites of a Blonde and Strange Case of Angelica, by James Naremore:
http://jamesnaremore.net/essays/
Click on Films of the Year, 2009 and 2010, respectively (pdf).

MO interview with Antonio Priéto re: Eccentricities:
http://www.newwavefilms.co.uk/assets/di ... _Book_.pdf

Sorry if I´ve posted any of this before.

Also:
http://www.cineoutsider.com/reviews/dvd ... _girl.html

[Stefan Andersson]

Article on Velho do Restelo, with interesting brief comments about MO´s interest in "iberismo" and Spain:
http://actodeprimavera.blogspot.com/201 ... stelo.html

More on MO, including an article by MO from 1933:
http://actodeprimavera.blogspot.com/sea ... 20Oliveira

News of a Brazilian book about the Brechtian aspect of MO´s films:
https://www.hojeemdia.com.br/almanaque/ ... a-1.672501

[Stefan Andersson]

The long version of "O Pao" has been restored:
http://www.cinemateca.pt/CinematecaSite ... ss-Kit.pdf

To be shown in Paris soon; part of the Toute la mémoire du monde festival.

[Stefan Andersson]

Press kit in French for Belle toujours:
https://medias.unifrance.org/medias/171 ... ancais.pdf

The French DVD for Belle toujours, which I haven´t seen, comes with a 24-page booklet including texts by MO. This press kit is 24 pages
and has comments by MO. Don´t know if it is the same contents.

Update: the booklet has an MO interview according to this: https://www.cineclubdecaen.com/analyse/ ... ujours.htm

Re: Magic Mirror - for a French press kit, go here and click on "materiel de promotion", screen right, to download press kit:
https://cinema.filmsduparadoxe.com/inde ... ir-magique

Mods: sorry if this info has been posted before.

[cinemaguild]

Just wanted to update the folks in this thread that we have announced Manoel de Oliveira's GEBO AND THE SHADOW for Blu-ray and DVD this October.

The disc will include the short Velho do Restelo and a new essay by Jordan Cronk.

[Stefan Andersson]

Press kit for the restoration of Francisca:
http://www.cinemateca.pt/CinematecaSite ... NCISCA.pdf


On As Pinturas do meu Irmão Júlio:
http://www.doc.ubi.pt/10/analise_ana_miranda.pdf
https://largodoscorreios.wordpress.com/ ... mao-julio/ - scroll down for a link to part two

Various quotes on José Regio´s contributions to MO´s films:
http://www.regio.pt/p/cinema.html

[Stefan Andersson]

A new biography of MO has been announced: "A morte não é prioritária", by Paulo José Miranda, published by Contraponto. 584 pages.
https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/cultur ... dos-filmes
https://www.fnac.pt/SearchResult/Result ... sft=1&sa=1

[Stefan Andersson]

Texts by João Bénard da Costa:
about MO:
http://www.focorevistadecinema.com.br/F ... ridade.htm

on Belle Toujours:
http://www.focorevistadecinema.com.br/F ... -belle.htm
da Costa´s texts taken from “Os Filmes da Minha Vida” (two volumes) - see also http://filmesvida.blogspot.com/

[Stefan Andersson]

da Costa on A Talking Picture:
http://www.focorevistadecinema.com.br/F ... falado.htm

MO on Serge Daney:
http://www.focorevistadecinema.com.br/j ... adaney.htm

[Stefan Andersson]

Conversation between MO and Godard, originally in the French Daily Libération, Sept. 4-5, 1993, here in Portuguese:
https://cultureinjection.wordpress.com/ ... eira-1993/

Brief excerpt in English: https://films7.com/note/1380

Also in Godard par Godard, ed. Alain Bergala, v.2, Éd. de l’Étoile, 1998
https://www.livres-cinema.info/livre/22 ... r-godard-2

[Michael Kerpan]

The Blu-Ray of Gebo looks gorgeous and the acting is mostly wonderful -- but I can't say I liked the _story_ all that much.

[therewillbeblus]

Both that and the Angelica blu-rays are just incredible-looking and even though this is expected since they're more recent, it makes me hopeful that someone will get around to his other works eventually and give them proper care... I agree with you on the film itself not being exceptional (by his standards, which are high)

[Aunt Peg]

Gee I wish someone would release Doomed Love (1978). I'd settle for a DVD.

Was lucky enough to see it on the big screen in Melbourne (we flew down from Sydney) in 2012 and it was worth every bit of time and money that it cost us.

[spectre]

A box set of his “Tetralogy of Frustrated Love” (The Past and the Present, Benilde, or the Virgin Mary, Doomed Love and Francisca) would be the release of the decade.

[therewillbeblus]

Or a MO/Agustina Bessa-Luís set, so that we’d get Francisca and Vale Abraão, which demands to be released in its proper cut.

Benilde will score high on my horror list though I imagine I’ll be alone on considering it one- but never has someone portrayed the horror of witnessing a miracle or proof of god so well. The distancing effect in making her alien and eliciting the unmanageable discomfort with the intangible is perfectly in his wheelhouse of objective focus.

[whaleallright]

several of these films have been restored and shown at festivals and on Portuguese TV (in HD), so I imagine they will be coming at some point.