Eduardo Geada
Eduardo Geada (born May 21, 1945 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese film critic and director .
Career
Eduardo Geada studied at the Faculty of Literature at the University of Lisbon (thesis on “German Philosophy”). As a student he was already active in the film club movement and was a film critic for various newspapers from 1968 to 1974, including A Capital and República . He made his first film in 1973 with the self-financed Sofia ea Educação Sexual (Sofia and the sexual education) , which was one of the last censored films of the Estado Novo regime. The socially critical film, which was released after the Carnation Revolution in 1974, was well received by critics and was also relatively successful commercially. After the revolution, under the sign of the turbulent social upheaval, he made political films with O Funeral do Patrão ( The Death of the Employer , 1975, based on a play by Dario Fo ) and A Santa Aliança ( The Holy Alliance 1980, shot 1975–1977) who looked at the relations between the working class and the capitalists . In the following years he made mainly documentaries and literary adaptations (including An Anarchist Banker by Fernando Pessoa ). From then on, his focus was on his academic work.
reception
The importance of Geada for Portuguese film is not so much in his films, which are more interesting for cineastes , but especially in his contribution to the filmic discussion in Portugal. His work as a film critic from the end of the 1960s onwards was new to the country's film landscape and provided filmmakers with important food for thought and assessments. His PhD thesis Os Mundos do Cinema: Modelos Dramáticos e Narrativos no Periodo Classico (“The Worlds of Cinema: Dramatic and Narrative Models of the Classical Period”) at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa also gained importance for film in Portugal. His films, on the other hand, were primarily a sign of cinematic reflections and were characterized by different quality and film languages.
Filmography
- 1974: O Direito à Cidade
- 1974: Sofia ea Educação Sexual
- 1976: O Funeral do Patrão
- 1978: Temos Festa (TV series)
- 1980: Mariana Alcoforado
- 1980: A Santa Aliança
- 1981: O Banqueiro Anarquista
- 1982: Uma Viagem na Nossa Terra
- 1983: O Homem Que Não Sabe Escrever
- 1983: Impossível Evasão (TV movie)
- 1984: Ritual dos Pequenos Vampiros (TV movie)
- 1986: Saudades para Dona Genciana
- 1990: Retratos da Madeira (TV series)
- 1994: Passem por Lisboa
Bibliography (selection)
- 1998: Os Mundos do Cinema (Editorial Notícias) ISBN 978-972-46-0955-3
- 1987: O Cinema Espectáculo (Edições 70) ISBN 978-972-44-0111-9
- 1985: O Poder do Cinema (Livros Horizonte) ISBN 978-972-24-0653-6
- 1977: O imperialismo eo fascismo no cinema (Moraes Editores)
literature
- A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-21-1763-7
- Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, ISBN 972-21-0446-2
Web links
- Eduardo Geada in the Internet Movie Database (English)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ A. Murtinheira, I. Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 105
- ↑ a b Jorge Leitão Ramos Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, page 172ff
- ↑ http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/clpic/tematicos/cinema/realizadores/geada_eduardo.html
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989–2003 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 268
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Geada, Eduardo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese film critic and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |