José de Matos-Cruz

José de Matos-Cruz

José de Matos-Cruz (born 9 February 1947 in Mortágua, Portugal) is a Portuguese writer, journalist, editor, high-school teacher, investigator, encyclopedist. From 1980 to 2010, he works at the Cinemateca Portuguesa (Portuguese Film Archive), in Lisbon. He is a prominent historian of the Portuguese cinema (see: Cinema of Portugal).[1][2]

Contents

Biography

José de Matos-Cruz [3] is a licentiate in Law by the University of Coimbra, 1973. He writes in newspapers and magazines since the sixties.

He writes fiction and poetry books, some worth mentioning: Tempo Possível (Possible Times), in 1967, Cafre (Kaffir), 1970, Alma de Cadáver (Soul of a Corpse), 1985, A Erosão dos Lábios (Lips Erosion), 1992, Hexálogo (Hexalog), 2000, Os EntreTantos (Meantimes), 2003, and O Infante Portugal ( The Prince Heir of Portugal ), 2007. He is the founder of several comics magazines and the coordinator of a comics section entitled Quadradinhos (Comic Strips) in the evening paper A Capital. In 2004, he starts publishing a periodical webzine, Imaginário (Imagery).

He also writes books on cinema, such as monographies on Charles Chaplin (1981), Manoel de Oliveira (1996), António de Macedo (2000), Artur Ramos (2003), António Lopes Ribeiro and Francisco Ribeiro (2008). His masterpieces include O Cais do Olhar (The Quay of Sight), 1980–1999, which brings together all Portuguese long feature films in the 20th century; in 1989 a Prontuário do Cinema Português, hand-book with a detailed description of the Portuguese films produced from 1896 to 1989; O Cinema Português (Portuguese Cinema), a catalog of Portuguese films from 1986 to 1998, printed in 1998; and in 2002, 30 Anos com o Cinema Português (30 Years of Portuguese Cinema).

From 1986 on, he writes film reviews in the newspaper Diário de Notícias. In 1995, he gives counsel on the series (Portuguese Film History), broadcast by the RTP, the Portuguese national TV station. He also gives counsel on dictionaries, encyclopaedias and several RTP programs (1989–94) and on production (1989–99).

From 2000 to 2010, he is a professor at the Escola Superior de Teatro e de Cinema. He creates a film data base called Cinema Português (2002–09), published by a department of the Portuguese Foreign Office, the Instituto Camões. In 2003, he starts teaching a film course at the Universidade Moderna, Lisbon. From 1980 to 2008, he organises Filmografia Portuguesa (a systematic list of Portuguese films and their features) at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, the Portuguese National Film Archive.

José de Matos-Cruz - Memórias Afectivas e Outras Histórias (José de Matos-Cruz, affective memories and other stories) is a DVD film by Delfim Ramos, who portrays him as a living and creative testimony.

In 2005, he publishes a monograph of the actor Joaquim de Almeida (Joaquim de Almeida - 1838-1921 - Um Actor de Montijo), which would become a digital handbook on Portuguese theatre, the Anuário Teatral - Portugal - Século XIX, work still in progress.

In 2010, he becomes member of the board of the Fundação D. Luís I, in the town of Cascais.

See also

References

Bibliographic references

Books

Texts online

SEVERAL

ARTICLES

External links

  • (Portuguese) Cinema Português – Portuguese cinema database by José de Matos Cruz

Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • José de Matos-Cruz — (Mortágua, Portugal, le 9 février 1947) est un écrivain portugais, journaliste, éditeur, professeur de l’enseignement supérieur, chercheur, encyclopédiste. De 1980 à 2010, il fut un membre de la Cinémathèque Portugaise, à Lisbonne. Il est connu… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • De Matos — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. De Matos peut désigner : Salir de Matos, une freguesia portugaise, Gregório de Matos (1636 1696), poète brésilien, José Norton de Matos (1867 1955),… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spanish Congress Electoral District) — Santa Cruz de Tenerife is one of the 52 electoral districts (circunscripciónes) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It was first contested in modern times in the 1977… …   Wikipedia

  • Mauro Matos — Nacimiento 6 de agosto de 1982 (29 años) Castelli, provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina Nacionalidad …   Wikipedia Español

  • Cinema of Portugal — European cinema  • Cinema of Albania  • Cinema of Armenia  • Cinema of Austria  • Cinema of Azerbaijan  • Cinema of Belgium  • Cinema of Bosnia Herzegovina  • Cinema of Bulgaria …   Wikipedia

  • O Pão e o Vinho — (English: Bread and Wine) is a 1981 Portuguese documentary feature film produced and directed by Ricardo Costa, his second docufiction after Changing Tides (Mau Tempo, Marés e Mudança) – 1996/7. The third is Mists (Brumas) 2003. Contents 1… …   Wikipedia

  • Cine de Portugal — La primera exhibición de cine en Portugal fue el 18 de junio de 1896. No se proyectó ninguna película portuguesa o rodada en Portugal, sino una muestra de filmaciones de William Paul ofrecida en el Real Coliseo de Lisboa por Edwin Rousby. Tal fue …   Wikipedia Español

  • Changing Tides — (Portuguese: Mau Tempo, Marés e Mudança 1976) is a Portuguese feature length film by Ricardo Costa, his first docufiction, preceding Bread and Wine (1981) and Mists (2003). Manuel Pardal, fisherman and native poet, plays the star. This film and a …   Wikipedia

  • Ricardo Costa (réalisateur) — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Ricardo Costa. Ricardo Costa (né le 25 janvier 1940 à Peniche) est un réalisateur et producteur portugais. La plupart de son œuvre sont des films documentaires, beaucoup d eux contaminés par la fiction… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Portugiesischer Film — (Cinema Lusitano) ist der Film, der in Portugal gedreht wurde. Zwei wichtige und anerkannter Regisseure sind João César Monteiro und Manoel de Oliveira. Vor allem Autorenfilme und Erzählkino sind bis heute, da es oftmals an finanziellen Mitteln… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”