The best Manuel Mozos’s documentary movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Manuel Mozos’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Manuel Mozos.
The Glory of Filmmaking in Portugal
6.3/10
On 18 September 1929, José Régio sent a letter to Alberto Serpa expressing his desire to create a production company and start making films. For almost 90 years, nothing more was known: no reply was ever found and Régio never mentioned the subject again. The discovery of some old reels in a collector’s hoard seems to provide the ending to the story.
João Bénard da Costa: Others Will Love the Things I Have Loved
7.2/10
Director Manuel Mozos draws an intimate portrait of João Bénard da Costa, programmer, critic, actor and, for 18 years, director of the Portuguese Film Museum, who passed away in 2009.
A Portuguese Film
7.3/10
A documentary about the world of portuguese cinema, with interviews with some critics and directors.
Times Are Changing, Not Me
Manuel Mozos, the Portuguese director, talks about his films, cinema and Sam Peckinpah.
A Noite do Golpe de Estado
7.5/10
The operational commander of the "Captains Movement", describes and recreates a quarter of century later the crucial 24 hours of April 25, 1974, that would topple the Portuguese government and start a democratic regime in Portugal - since another military coup, May 28, 1926, installed a one-party dictatorship there. The scenes in the claustrophobic operation room are recreated, with him alone and a few voices.
Ama Romanta: Uma Utopia que Fazia Discos
In the second half of the 1980s, an Portuguese independent music publisher was created, Ama Romanta. It was the alternative to the hidden censorship of the big label industry and its founder was João Peste (the charismatic vocalist of Pop Dell'Arte).
