World’s Oldest Director, Manoel de Oliveira, Dies at 106

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World’s Oldest Director, Manoel de Oliveira, Dies at 106 inconnu 04/03/15 (Fri) 06:53:01 No.4274

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/manoel-de-oliveira-dead-oldest-filmmaker-dies-at-106-1201465173/

> Manoel de Oliveira, the oldest living active filmmaker, with a career that spanned nine decades from the silent era to the present, has died. He was 106. News of Oliveira’s death was confirmed on the website for the city of Porto, Portugal, where the director was born in 1908.

> Oliveira had completed only two features by age 55 but subsequently made 29 by the time he was 102. Even more unusual is that one of these films, “Memories and Confessions,” was not to be publicly shown, by the director’s expressed wishes, until his death — meaning that a new Oliveira film may be soon unveiled. The director’s most recent film, “The Old Man of Belem,” premiered at last year’s Venice Film Festival.

inconnu 04/05/15 (Sun) 20:23:05 No.4304

Bummer. I'm assuming I can find his earlier works somewhere, like Benilde or the Virgin Mother?

inconnu 04/05/15 (Sun) 22:27:49 No.4306

>>4304
Yeah it looks like it was released. Karagarga is featuring all his films this month, including that one.

>>4274
> “Memories and Confessions,” was not to be publicly shown, by the director’s expressed wishes, until his death

That's pretty interesting. I don't know of other examples of that aside from Mark Twain.

inconnu 04/05/15 (Sun) 22:34:02 No.4307

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>>4306
> Yeah it looks like it was released.

Whoops, I didn't look closely enough…

> Unfortunately there’s nothing better than this hard-subbed version from Italian TV.

but there are custom Eng subs

inconnu 04/07/15 (Tue) 05:02:30 No.4328

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so where's the best place to start with this guy?
i'm leaning toward Aniki Bobo even though it's decades removed from his other stuff

inconnu 04/10/15 (Fri) 06:48:14 No.4370

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

here he is dancing with a vocal group at age 99

the obvious question: who is now the oldest active director? before oliveira i think it was leni reifenstahl.

inconnu 04/10/15 (Fri) 14:27:29 No.4373

>>4370
> who is now the oldest active director?

Here are some of the oldest. I don't know about oldest active.

Richard L. Bare born
12 August 1913 in Modesto, California, USA
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0054374/reference

Lester James Peries born April 5, 1919 in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0673754/reference

Michael Anderson born January 30, 1920 in London, England, UK
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027183/reference

inconnu 04/17/15 (Fri) 20:43:46 No.4423

Lol @ his yellow ass teeth smh

inconnu 05/05/15 (Tue) 05:13:48 No.4560

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>>4373

>Richard L. Bare born

>12 August 1913 in Modesto, California, USA

Died 28 March 2015, Newport Beach, California, USA

Another one bites the dust! Richard L. Bare was best known for directing the TV series Green Acres. He had died a few days before Oliveria but his IMDB page was not yet updated.

Currently the oldest Western director is the 95 year-old Michael Anderson who made Logan's Run. His last project was The New Adventures of Pinocchio in 1999.