- José de Matos-Cruz
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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]
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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
- O Cais do Olhar - reference by Randal Johnson: Manoel de Oliveira, Google books.
- Against the Grain, article by Randal Johnson (ref. in 6th paragraph)
Books
- (Portuguese) Generic bibliography for Cinema of Portugal
- Books search at DocBweb
Texts online
SEVERAL
- (Portuguese) Download - from Instituto Camões
ARTICLES
- (Portuguese) No exemplo de Ana - article about Ana (film) by António Reis (filmmaker) and Margarida Cordeiro
- Ricardo Costa and the flowing pictures – article about the films by Ricardo Costa (filmmaker)
External links
- (Portuguese) Cinema Português – Portuguese cinema database by José de Matos Cruz
Categories:- 1947 births
- Living people
- Portuguese writers
- Portuguese historians
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