José Fonseca e Costa,
GCIH (27 June 1933 – 1 November 2015) was a Portuguese film director.
He was one of the founders of the Portuguese Cinema Novo.
Born in
Angola
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, Costa worked as an assistant to
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni ( ; ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and editor. He is best known for his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents", ''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and '' ...
before becoming one of the leaders of Portugal's 'Young Cinema' in the 1960s.
[Kuhn, Annette & Radstone, Susannah (1994) ''The Women's Companion to International Film'', University of California Press, , p. 96-7]
Filmography
*''Regresso à Terra do Sol'' - 1967
*''A Cidade'' - 1967
*''A Metafísica do Chocolate'' - 1967
*''The Pearl of Atlantic'' - 1969
*''Voar'' - 1970
*''The Message (O Recado)'' - 1971
*''The Guns and the People (As Armas e o Povo)'' - 1975
*''The Ghosts of Alcacer-Kibir (Os Demónios de Alcácer Quibir)'' - 1977
*''Quilas, the Bad of the Picture (Kilas, o Mau da Fita)'' - 1980
*''Música, Moçambique!'' - 1980
*''Kilas, o Mau da Fita'' - 1981
*''
No Trace of Sin
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(Sem Sombra de Pecado)'' - 1983
*''Ballad of Dog Beach (Balada da Praia dos Cães)'' - 1987
*''The Neighbor's Wife (Mulher do Próximo)'' - 1988
*''Os Cornos de Cronos'' - 1991
*''
Five Days, Five Nights (Cinco Dias, Cinco Noites)'' - 1996
*''The Fascination (O Fascínio)'' - 2003
*''Widow and Rich and No Longer a Bitch (Viuva Rica Solteira Não Fica)'' - 2006
*''What the Tourist Should See (Os Mistérios de Lisboa)'' - 2009
*''Axilas'' - 2016
Bibliographic 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
*
Cinema of Portugal
The Cinema of Portugal started with the birth of the medium in the late 19th century. Cinema was introduced in Portugal in 1896 with the screening of foreign films and the first Portuguese film was '' Saída do Pessoal Operário da Fábrica ...
References
Portuguese film directors
1933 births
2015 deaths
Golden Globes (Portugal) winners
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