António Ferreira Gonçalves dos Reis, known as António Reis (27 August 1927 – 10 September 1991), was a Portuguese
film director
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,
screenwriter
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...
and
producer,
poet
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,
sculptor
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and
ethnographer
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. He was married to
Margarida Cordeiro
Margarida Cordeiro (born 1939) is a Portuguese psychiatrist and film director from Mogadouro. The art concepts developed by her and her husband António Reis are called The School of Reis.
Filmography
* Jaime
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, co-director of most of his films. He is considered one of the most important directors of his country, due to the originality of his style.
He was a teacher at the
Lisbon Theatre and Film School
The Lisbon Theatre and Film School (''Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema'') of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon
inherited the function of the National Conservatoire, founded by Almeida Garrett, in 1836, and of teaching Film, introduced in the ...
for several years. His work and films influenced subsequent directors. This influence originated a cinematographic family commonly referred to as ''
The School of Reis The School of Reis is a film theory concept relative to the teachings of Portuguese director António Reis, to his work, conceived with his wife Margarida Cordeiro, and to the works of the directors influenced by theirs. It is a pun on the surname ...
''.
His only daughter Ana Cordeiro Reis is a writer and contemporary composer.
Filmography
*1959 : ''Auto de Floripes'' (co-director)
*1963 : ''Painéis do Porto''
*1964 : ''Do Céu ao Rio'' (co-director wit
César Guerra Leal
*1966 : ''Alto do Rabagão'' (co-director with César Guerra Leal)
*1966 : ''Mudar de Vida'' (directed by
Paulo Rocha, script by António Reis)
*1974 : ''
Jaime
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''
*1976 : ''
Trás-os-Montes'' (co-director with Margarida Cordeiro)
*1985 : ''
Ana'' (co-director with Margarida Cordeiro)
*1989 : ''Rosa de Areia'' (co-director with Margarida Cordeiro)
Notes
References
* ''O Cais do Olhar'' by
José de Matos-Cruz
José de Matos-Cruz (born 9 February 1947) is a Portuguese writer, journalist, editor, high-school teacher, investigator, encyclopedist. From 1980 to 2010, he worked at the ''Cinemateca Portuguesa'' (Portuguese Film Archive) in Lisbon. He is a pr ...
,
Portuguese Cinematheque
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, 1999
See also
*
The School of Reis The School of Reis is a film theory concept relative to the teachings of Portuguese director António Reis, to his work, conceived with his wife Margarida Cordeiro, and to the works of the directors influenced by theirs. It is a pun on the surname ...
* ''
O Acto da Primavera'' (1962), directed by
Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wo ...
, assisted by António Reis
External links
António Reisat the
Harvard Film Archive
The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) is a film archive and cinema located in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of film, the HFA houses a c ...
Portuguese film directors
1927 births
1991 deaths
People from Vila Nova de Gaia
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