SciFi Wold Portugal

One month after I first reported the upcoming project, the Portuguese horror film magazine was officially launched. Actively reaching its audience from a simple intelligible website, the twittering blue bird and the social machine Facebook, it is sustained by a wide spectrum of backgrounds (bloggers, screenwriters, fans) and is partners with prestigious film festivals such as Fantasporto or Stiges.

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Um mês depois de ter anunciado a chegada do projecto, a revista portuguesa de filmes de terror foi oficialmente lançada. Activamente alcançando a sua audiência através de um simples e inteligível website, do cantarolante pássaro azul e da máquina social Facebook, é sustentada por um vasto espectro de experiências (bloggers, argumentistas, fãs) e é parceira de festivais prestigiados como o Fantasporto ou Stiges.

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Miguel G. Mendes takes the wheel of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Miguel Gonçalves Mendes spent four years with Nobel Prize for Literature winner José Saramago and his wife, Pilar del Rio, times out of which he shaped one of the most beautiful, complete and sensitive films the Portuguese cinema has ever seen. That is José and Pilar, a 125-minute documentary that strewed all over the world in film festivals and that has recently inspired a popular movement asking the Portuguese Institute of Cinema to pick it up for the country's submission for the Academy Awards' Best Foreign Movie categorie.

Although in film one shall never consider the closing of a cycle, for each film sprawls itself throughout the history, this project is actually coming to a point of recognized accomplishment and well deserved sense of fulfillment. And within the next months, because we still have to wait to see how it goes (if it goes) in the other side of the Atlantic, it is time for new adventures.


"It is the most cinematic of José Saramago's novels, the one with the adequate structure for film." states Miguel seconds after announcing he's preparing the adaptation of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ in a production with an international cast and crew, still unannounced.

"This film is about how cruel the mankind can reach, whether it is because of power, money, relationships or some god.". Among the other homonyms adaptations of the writers work we count George Sluizer's La Balsa de Piedra (2002), Meirelles' Blindness (2008) and António Ferreira's Embargo (2010).

Fernando Pessoa wrote for the screen

Foram compilados e estão prontos para ser divulgados uma série de argumentos cinematográficos da autoria de Fernando Pessoa. Sob o título de Film Arguments, escritos em três línguas, o poeta português terá desenhado um conjunto de curtas histórias para cinema, ainda na altura do cinema mudo. São descritas pelos tradutores da obra em que serão lançados (Patrício Ferrari e Claudia J. Fisher) como thrillers, com toques de comédia, baseados em trocas de identidade, ressonância temática dos seus conhecidos e deliciosamente complexos versos. Além disso, terão sido encontrados planos do escritor para a criação da sua própria produtora cinematográfica, a Ecce Film, cujo logotipo terá sido desenhado pelo próprio. A obra, Obras de Fernando Pessoa, chega às livrarias a 08 de Julho.

A series of screenplays written by Fernando Pessoa have been collected and are set to be released. Entitled Film Arguments, written in three languages, the Portuguese poet has designed an array of short stories for the screen, during the silent-era. The translators of the piece in which the scripts will be revealed described them as thrillers with a comic touch, based on identity mismatches, thematic resonance of his known and deliciously complex verses. Besides, there have been found some plans for the creation of his own film production company, the Ecce Film, whose logo has been drawn by Pessoa himself. The piece, Obras de Fernando Pessoa, hits the libraries on the 8th of July.

Guião e notas de Monteiro, em Recordações da Casa Amarela

Um grande achado de Paulo Soares. O guião de Recordações da Casa Amarela de João César Monteiro teria sido, por si só, uma descoberta surpreendente, mas esta vai mais longe e deixa-nos as notas e os rabiscos que fez o a meu ver melhor argumentista que o cinema português alguma vez teve. Deixo o link.

A huge discovery by Paulo Soares. João César Monteiro's Recollections of the Yellow House screenplay alone would've been a surprising dig, but this one goes further and unveils us the notes and sketches drawn by who I consider to be the greatest screenwriter the portuguese cinema has ever had. Have the link.