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| Title: | La balsa de piedra / The stone raft. |
| Director: | George Sluizer |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in DVD (Region 1) |
| Imprint: | Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, 2005 |
| Language: | Spanish language with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. Based on the book by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago. Cinema Vault Releasing presents MGS Film in co-production with Sogecine and Lusomundo ; screenplay, Yvette Biro & George Sluizer ; producer & director, George Sluizer. Director of photography, Goert Giltaij ; editor, Jan Dop ; music, Henny Vrienten. Participants: Federico Luppi, Iciar Bollain, Gabino Diego, Ana Padrao, Diogo Infante
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| Plot: | An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Portugal. Literary Adaptation |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Capitães de abril / April captains |
| Director: | Maria de Medeiros |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (NTSC, all regions) |
| Imprint: | Miami, FL : distributed by Synkronized USA, 2004 |
| Language: | In Portuguese with subtitles in English.
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| Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Jacques Bidou apresenta ; uma produção de JBA Production ... [et al.] ; argumento, Maria de Medeiros, Eve Deboise ; produtor, Jacques Bidou ; um filme de Maria de Medeiros. Director of photography, Michel Abramowicz ; editor, Jacques Witta ; music, António Victorino d'Almeida. Performer Stefano Accorsi, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, Frédéric Pierrot, Fele Martinez. Awards Bordeaux International Festival of Women in Cinema: Audience Award, 2000. São Paulo International Jury Award, 2000. Special features: photo gallery and trailers for Cubanissimo, Tolerance, Al manar and Cops story.
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| Plot: | In Portugal on April 24, 1974 the words of poet Jose Alfonso in the banned song "Grandola" sparked a revolution when the song was broadcast over the radio over and over again as a signal for a military coup against the oldest dictatorship in Europe.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Portugal. History. Revolution, 1974. Historical films. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | O convento / The convent |
| Director: | Manoel de Oliveira |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | New York : Fox Lorber Home Video, c1997. |
| Language: | English, French and Portuguese with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Strand Releasing ; a co-production of Gemini Films ... [et al.] ; argumento, diálogos e realização, Manoel de Oliveira ; produtor, Paulo Branco ; script, Júlia Buisel. Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.
Credits Director of photography, Mário Barroso ; editors, Manoel de Oliveira, Valérie Loiseleux ; music, Sofia Gubaidulina, Igor Stravinski, Toshir¯o Mayuzumi. Performer Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira.
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| Plot: | An American professor travels with his beautiful wife Hélène to a Portuguese monastery to prove his theory that Shakespeare was actually of Spanish Jewish origin. The host at the convent is the sinister Baltar, who becomes infatuated with Hélène. A classic battle of good versus evil ensues as the flirtation between the two develops leaving the viewer wondering which one of these characters is the Devil himself.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Portugal. Convents |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Um filme falado / A talking picture |
| Director: | Manoel De Oliveira |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) |
| Imprint: | New York : Kino on Video, [2005] |
| Language: | Portuguese, French, or Greek, with optional English subtitles.
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| Notes: | DVD release of the 2003 motion picture.. a co-production of Madragoa Films, Gemini Films, Mikado Film, France 2 cinema ; a film by Manoel De Oliveira ; produced by Paulo Branco ; written and directed by Manoel De Oliveira. Cinematographer, Emmanuel Machuel ; editor, Valérie Loiseleux. Special features: "Manoel de Oliveira: A Career" an essay by Richard Peña, program director, Film Society of Lincoln Center and Associate Professor of Film Studies, Columbia University; trailer; stills gallery; a Manoel de Oliveira filmography. Performer Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich, Irene Papas, Stefania Sandrelli, Leonor Silveira, Luis Miguel Cintra, Filipa de Almeida.
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| Plot: | Eight-year-old Maria and her history professor mother embark on an ocean cruise from Portugal to Bombay, India. As three mysterious and glamorous women board the ship, their picturesque journey begins to grow in tension and complexity.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Portugal. Mothers and daughters. Ocean travel. Bombay (India) |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | O judeu |
| Director: | Jom Tob Azulay |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | Lisboa : Uniportugal distributor, 1995. |
| Language: | In Portuguese with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | produção, Metrofilme ... [et al.] ; produção, Jom Tob Azulay, António Vaz da Silva, Claudio Kahns ; realização, Jom Tob Azulay ; roteiro e diálogos, Geraldo Carneiro, Millor Fernandes, Gilvan Pereira. From the idea of Alberto Cavalcanti, based on the life of António José da Silva. Credits Director of photography, Eduardo Serra ; art director, Adrian Cooper ; editors, José Manuel Lopes, Pedro Ribeiro ; music, Rui Luis Pereira. Performer Filipe Pinheiro, Dina Sfat, Mario Viegas, Jose Lewgoy.
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| Plot: | In 18th-century Portugal, a popular writer is accused of heresy despite his "conversion" to Catholicism. Imprisoned and faced with a difficult choice, he must stand up to a ferocious church hierarchy at odds with a decadent monarchy.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Portugal. António José da Silva, 1705-1739. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Lisbon story |
| Director: | Wim Wenders |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, c1997. |
| Language: | In English, Portuguese and German with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Road Movies presents a film by Wim Wenders ; prodotto da Ulrich Felsberg, Paolo Branco ; scritto e diretto da Wim Wenders. Originally released as a motion picture in 1994. Credits Photography, Lisa Rinzler ; edited by Peter Przygodda, Anne Schnee ; music, Madredeus. Performer Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Teresa Salgueiro, Madredeus.
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| Plot: | When sound engineer Phillip Winter receives a cryptic message from his friend, a self-obsessed director, he drives to Lisbon. But upon his arrival, Winter is unable to find the director, and an unfinished silent film is the only clue to his whereabouts. As a result the engineer finds himself roaming the streets of Lisbon recording sound for his friend\'s unfinished silent film.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Portugal. Lisbon |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Party |
| Director: | Manoel de Oliveira |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, 2001 |
| Language: | Portuguese and French language soundtrack with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Paulo Branco apresenta um filme de Manoel de Oliveira ; argumento de Manoel de Oliveira ; diálogos de Agustina Bessa-Luís ; uma co-produção Madragoa Filmes, Gemini Films ; com a participação de Instituto português da arte ... [et al.] ; produzido por Paulo Braco ; realização, Manoel de Oliveira. Note Full-screen format, Dolby digital mono. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1996. Container includes synopsis, credits, and chapter index. Credits Photography, Renato Berta ; editing, Valérie Loiseleux. Performer Michel Piccoli, Irene Papas, Leonor Silveira, Rogério Samora.
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| Plot: | "Leonor and Rogério celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary by hosting a party at their luxurious seaside villa. As the party wears on, Leonor finds herself pursued by an aging lothario, Michael, a powerful, cunning man with a razor-sharp wit. This game of cat-and-mouse heats up, leading to a wild and surprising revelation from the ordinarily passive Rogério"--Container.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Portugal |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Tudo isto é fado |
| Director: | Luís Galvão Teles |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ;; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 4) |
| Imprint: | Manaus: Videofilmes , 2004 |
| Language: | Portuguese
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| Notes: | Videodisc release of the 2004 motion picture. intérpretes
Ana Cristina de Oliveira, Ângelo Torres, Danton Mello
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| Plot: | Do Rio de Janeiro a Lisboa, os amigos Amadeu e Leonardo coleccionam fracassos e desilusões. Agora, querem dar o golpe das suas vidas e, para isso, procuram um escritor de policiais com fama de cometer os crimes que descreve. É então definida a missão: roubar um quadro verdadeiro de uma exposição de arte falsa, na noite da final do Campeonato de Futebol.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Brazil. Portugal. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Vale Abraão / Abraham's Valley |
| Director: | Manoel de Oliveira. |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (187 min.) : (Region All) sd., col. ;; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | Lisbon: Madragoa Films. 2003 |
| Language: | Portuguese dialogue, subtitles in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.
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| Notes: | Argumento e diálogos de Manoel de Oliveira ; [producer, Paulo Branco ; writer, Augustina Bessa-Luis]. Cinematography, Mário Barroso ; editors, Manoel de Oliveira, Valerie Loiseleux. Based on the novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís./ Participants: Leonor Silveira, Cécile Sanz de Alba, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ruy de Carvalho, Luis Lima Barreto./ Originally released as motion picture in 1993.
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| Plot: | Story of Ema, a very attractive young girl with enormous power over men. She marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend and they move to the Valley of Abraham. With time she begins to feel unhappy about her marriage, so, with all the freedom she has, she takes a lover. A Portuguese reworking of themes from "Madame Bovary."
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Portugal. Literary Adaptation. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Viagem ao princípio do mundo / Journey to the beginning of the world |
| Director: | Manoel de Oliveira |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in DVD 9 (all regions); |
| Imprint: | Santa Monica, CA: Strand Releasing, 1999. |
| Language: | In French and Portuguese with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1997. Strand Releasing ; uma co-produção Madragoa Filmes, Gemini Filmes ; argumento e diálogos de Manoel de Oliveira ; produzido por Paulo Branco ; realização de Manoel de Oliveira. Cinematographer, Renato Berta ; editor, Valérie Loiseleux ; music, Emmanuel Nuñes ; French translation, Jacques Parsi.
Performer Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira, Isabel de Castro, Diogo Dória.
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| Plot: | An aging film director, on location in Portugal, takes three actor friends on a driving tour of a mountain village where one of the actors, born in France but of Portuguese descent, is united with an elderly aunt he has never met. The filmmakers speculate on beginnings and endings, what remains of the past and what is lost.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Portugal |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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