Fernando Lopes

Fernando Lopes

Born: December 28, 1936
Died: May 2, 2012
in Alvaiázere, Portugal
Fernando Lopes, GCIH was a Portuguese film director. He was a Film teacher at the Portuguese National Conservatory, nowadays the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). He died, aged 76, in Lisbon due to throat cancer.

Movies for Fernando Lopes...

Acts of Cinema
Title: Acts of Cinema
Released: October 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Cinema and affections from life in images and what goes on outside the frame. 'Snapshots' of shootings and the present-day memory of directors, actors and technicians.
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In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
Title: In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
Character: Self
Released: October 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Feature documentary about ex-maverick filmmaker António de Macedo.
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Senhor X
Title: Senhor X
Character: K
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Cinema is the true life.
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A Felicidade
Title: A Felicidade
Character: Pai
Released: July 23, 2009
Type: Movie
A father and a son. The father will be seventy years old, the son is in his twenties. The son drives the father to the hospital. Classical music in the radio. The father did not know that the son liked classical music, and the son did not know that that would be the last time he would speak to his father. But Mozart asks that souls rejoice, that men rejoice.
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Michael Biberstein - My Friend Mike at Work
Title: Michael Biberstein - My Friend Mike at Work
Character: Himself
Released: August 17, 2008
Type: Movie
Mike, half Swiss, half American, is a friend of Portuguese director Fernando Lopes. He’s a painter and has been living in Portugal for 30 years, making him also Portuguese. His stage name is Michael Biberstein. His internationally acclaimed works belong to some of the most important collections and museums around the world. He and Fernando Lopes decided to embrace this adventure after a conversation they had in a mutual friend’s house. The result is this movie: an inner journey about the creation of a painting where its silence, its mystery and magic were filmed.
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The Lovebirds
Title: The Lovebirds
Character: The director
Released: March 13, 2008
Type: Movie
THE LOVEBIRDS intertwines six stories about love, friendship and survival. The film stars an international cast of American and Portuguese actors who create a colorful mix of off-beat characters that lead us through a complex labyrinth of emotions. Set in the old Romanesque city of Lisbon during the course of one night where love is the art of survival. Written by Anonymous
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Fernando Lopes, Provavelmente
Title: Fernando Lopes, Provavelmente
Character: Himself
Released: March 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Fernando Lopes in the first person: through his words and films, from the village where he was born until Lisbon of present time, we discover the themes and emotions of the work of one of the main authors of portuguese "Cinema Novo".
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Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
Title: Carlos de Oliveira: Upon the Left Side
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
Carlos Oliveira's literary universe is re-enacted in a studio using the writer’s personal objects and manuscripts, and with the help of Luis Miguel Cintra and Fernando Lopes. Shot with the purpose to document his work in the same way Carlos de Oliveira documented his hometown in Gândara, the film uses all the creative liberty that new digital technology allows in order to recreate the visual and sound records that were also present in the writer and poet’s own work.
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No Tempo do Cinema
Title: No Tempo do Cinema
Character: Himself
Released: May 21, 2006
Type: Movie
A 58 minute documentary about the life of João Bénard da Costa.
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98 Octanas
Title: 98 Octanas
Character: Mafioso
Released: March 14, 2006
Type: Movie
He and she don't know each other. They randomly meet at a gas station, while drifting. "Where are we going? Far away. Where is that? Near."
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Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
Title: Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.
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Recollections of the Yellow House
Title: Recollections of the Yellow House
Character: Snooker Player (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's waterfront.