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Manoel de Oliveira

December 2023

  • Ridley Scott directing Joaquin Phoenix in Napoleon.

    No country for old men? Why Miyazaki, Loach and Scott can’t stop making movies

    Together with Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood, long celebrated film directors are proving that entering their ninth decade and beyond is no barrier to ambition

August 2021

  • Almost pre-cinematic film-making … Visit, or Memories and Confessions

    Visit, or Memories and Confessions review – Manoel de Oliveira’s remarkable testament

    The Portuguese director’s stately cine-memoir about his singular life was shot nearly four decades ago but withheld at his request until his death, aged 106
  • Portuguese film director Manoel de Oliveira at a Cannes photocall in 2010

    Manoel de Oliveira: his intriguing films are a rebuke to ageism – appreciation

  • Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira

    Manoel de Oliveira: a life and career in pictures

  • Manoel de Oliveira in front of a montage announcing an exhibition of his work in 2009 in Berlin

    Manoel de Oliveira obituary

  • Manoel de Oliveira shooting The Magic Mirror in 2005.

    Manoel de Oliveira, legendary Portuguese director, dies aged 106

August 2010

May 2010

  • Portugal's Manoel De Oliveira - the world's oldest active movie maker - on the red carpet at Cannes

    The Strange Case of Manoel de Oliveira, still making films at 101

    Portuguese movie maker premiered The Strange Case of Angelica at Cannes - after 64 years in the making

December 2008

  • Manoel Oliveira

    Film blog
    Happy 100th birthday, Manoel Oliveira

    Ronald Bergan: No cinema by old men? The continuing career of birthday boy Oliveira proves directors can produce amazing work well into their dotage

March 2008

  • Film blog
    Manoel de Oliveira is still going strong

    While many young film-makers moan about the crushing debilitation of making movies, this centenarian continues to cheerfully, tirelessly outpace them

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