Fernando Lopes (filmmaker)
Fernando Marques Lopes ( born December 28, 1935 in Macas de Dona Maria, Leiria; † 2, 2012 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese director of " Cinema Novo ".
Career
As an avid filmmaker he was engaged student days already in Lisbon film clubs. In 1957 he began the new medium of television, the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal ( RTP) (the second channel RTP2 as director between 1978 and 1980 re- hosted ). In 1959 he went with a scholarship from the National Film Fund Portugal at the London Film School, where he made his directing diploma.
He debuted in 1964 to feature length with Belarmino, a semi- documentary film about the Lisbon amateur boxer Belarmino Fragoso. The socially critical tone, the aesthetics of the film, the music (jazz Manuel Jorge Veloso and the Hot Club Portugal) were features of the Cinema Novo, the New Portuguese film (the main movie Belarmino was Os Verdes Anos (English: The green years) by Paulo Rocha ). The atmosphere and the style of the film inspire critics and filmmakers to this day, though commercial success was more modest.
1965 followed a three-month work in Hollywood. Back, he founded together with Fernando Matos Silva, Alberto Seixas Santos, Alfredo Costa and Manuel Tropa the film company Média. Média produced in 1971 his second feature film, Uma Abelha na Chuva ( Eng.: A Bee in the Rain ), a screen adaptation of the neo-realist novel by Carlos de Oliveira. Lopes turned here, however, by no means a neo-realist film, but that earned an unusual narrative style, with static images, mute or backed by foreign sound passages, and the aesthetics of poetry and painting. The film was released in 1972 and the criticism is excited today.
Lopes was in 1970 the first chairman of the 1969 he co-founded Centro Português de Cinema, a film collective that should the Cinema Novo forms prevail.
His next film, Nacionalidade: Portuguese (German: Nationality: Portuguese, 1972), was a documentary about the situation of Portuguese migrant workers in the suburbs of France and was banned by the censorship of the Estado Novo.
The deep social and economic upheavals in Portugal after the Carnation Revolution in 1974 also changed perspectives and themes of the cinema. A key issue should be the work of Fernando Lopes especially the loneliness and alienation of man in a technological and economized world, with films such as Lá Fora (2004), 98 Octanas (2006) or Os Sorrisos do destino ( 2009). Great deal of attention was his film adaptation of O Delfim (2002 ) of the same book ( 1968) by José Cardoso Pires.
Paulo Branco produced most of the films of Fernando Lopes.