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God's Comedy
''God's Comedy'' ( pt, A Comédia de Deus) is a 1995 Portuguese film by João César Monteiro. It is the second part in a trilogy, preceded by '' Recordações da Casa Amarela'' (1989) (''Recollections of the Yellow House'') and followed by '' As Bodas de Deus'' (1999) (''Houses of God''). God is symbolized through the character ''João de Deus'' (lit.: John of God), played by writer/director Monteiro himself. The film was submitted as the Portuguese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards, but did not earn a nomination.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences See also * List of submissions to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Portuguese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Portugal has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1980. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João César Monteiro
João César Monteiro Santos (2 February 1939, in Figueira da Foz – 3 February 2003, in Lisbon) was a Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic. Life and career João César Monteiro was born into a family with anti-clerical and anti-fascist ideals. His family moved to Lisbon when Monteiro was 15 years old to enable him to continue his studies. In 1963, with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Monteiro traveled to Great Britain to study at the London Film School (known then as the London School of Film Technique). In 1965 in Portugal, he began work on his first film, '' Quem Espera por Sapatos de Defunto Morre Descalço'' (Who Waits for the Deceased's Shoes Dies Barefoot), which would not be finished for five years due to financial problems. At the same time, he made the short documentary "Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen", about the Portuguese poet. Monteiro also wrote film criticism for periodicals like ''Imagem'', ''Diário de Lisboa'' and ''O S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Film
The following are lists of Portuguese films ordered by decade and year of release. For an alphabetical list of Portuguese films see :Portuguese films. 1930s to 1990s *List of Portuguese films of the 1930s * List of Portuguese films of the 1940s * List of Portuguese films of the 1950s *List of Portuguese films of the 1960s * List of Portuguese films of the 1970s * List of Portuguese films of the 1980s * List of Portuguese films of the 1990s 2000s *List of Portuguese films of 2000 *List of Portuguese films of 2001 *List of Portuguese films of 2002 *List of Portuguese films of 2003 *List of Portuguese films of 2004 *List of Portuguese films of 2005 *List of Portuguese films of 2006 *List of Portuguese films of 2007 *List of Portuguese films of 2008 *List of Portuguese films of 2009 2010s * List of Portuguese films of 2010 *List of Portuguese films of 2011 *List of Portuguese films of 2012 *List of Portuguese films of 2013 *List of Portuguese films of 2014 *List of Portuguese films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recordações Da Casa Amarela
''Recollections of the Yellow House'' ( pt, Recordações da Casa Amarela) is a 1989 Portuguese film directed by João César Monteiro. Plot João de Deus, a middle-aged man, lives in a cheap boarding house in an old part of Lisbon. He relies on Franz Schubert's music and films to stave off misery. After harassing his landlord's daughters, he is thrown out of his room. He is sent to a mental hospital; however, he eventually manages to escape through the sewers. Cast * João César Monteiro as João de Deus * Manuela de Freitas as Dona Violeta * Ruy Furtado as Senhor Armando * Teresa Calado as Menina Julieta * Duarte de Almeida as Ferdinando * António Terrinha as the Doctor * Sabina Sacchi as Mimi * Henrique Viana as the Graduating Policeman * Luís Miguel Cintra as Lívio * Maria Ângela Violeta as Madre de Deus * Violeta Sarzedas as the Next Door Neighbor * João Pedro Bénard da Costa as the Dairy Worker * Manuel Gomes as Laurindo * Maria da Luz Fernandes as the Neighb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
As Bodas De Deus
''As Bodas de Deus'' (literal English title: ''The Spousals of God'') is a 1999 Portuguese comedy film directed by João César Monteiro. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Rita Durão - Joana de Deus * João César Monteiro - João de Deus * Joana Azevedo - Elena Gombrowicz * José Airosa - Omar Raschid * Manuela de Freitas - Sister Bernarda * Luís Miguel Cintra - God's Messenger * Ana Galvão - Leonor (as Ana Velazquez) * José Mora Ramos - Inspector Pantaleão * Fernando Mora Ramos - Psychiatrist * Fernando Heitor - Butler Vasconcelos * João Listz - Sparafucile * Jean Douchet Jean Douchet (; 19 January 1929 – 22 November 2019) was a French film director, historian, film critic and teacher who began his career in the early 1950s at ''Gazette du Cinéma'' and ''Cahiers du cinéma'' with members of the future French N ... - Bardamu * Filipa Araújo - Celestina * Sofia Marques - Nun * Teresa Negrão - Inês * Paulo M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.80th Academy Awards – Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award . . Retrieved November 2, 2007. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
68th Academy Awards
The 68th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1995 in the United States and took place on March 25, 1996, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as ''Oscars'') in 24 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by David Salzman and Quincy Jones and directed by Jeff Margolis. Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the second time, having previously presided over the 66th ceremony in 1994. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Richard Dreyfuss. '' Braveheart'' won five awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included '' Apollo 13'', ''Pocahontas'', ''Restoration'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Submissions To The 68th Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country. For the 68th Academy Awards, forty-one films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The submission deadline was set on November 1, 1995. Bolivia and Tunisia submitted films for the first time. The Philippines returned to the competition after a nine-year absence. Iran unsuccessfully tried to withdraw the film from contention, but the Academy refused to acce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Portuguese Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Portugal has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1980. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. Thirty-nine Portuguese films have been submitted to the Academy for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. As of the 94th Academy Awards, no Portuguese film has been nominated for the award; Portugal currently holds the record of the most submissions without an Oscar nomination. Almost one-fourth of Portugal's submissions (8 out of 37) have been directed by the prolific Manoel de Oliveira. However, the animated short film '' Ice Merchants'', by João Gonzalez, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 95th Academy Awards, becoming the first Portuguese film production to do so. Submissions The Academy of Motion Pict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Films
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1995 Drama Films
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Films Directed By João César Monteiro
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Grand Jury Prize Winners
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta and the Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua and Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. The city was historically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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