Letters from Fontainhas three films by Pedro Costa.

DVD 2010

"Portuguese director Pedro Costa has been steadily building an impressive body of work since the late eighties, and these are the three films that put him on the map: spare, painterly portraits of battered, largely immigrant lives in the slums of Fontainhas, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon. In Ossos, after a suicidal teenage girl gives birth, she misguidedly entrusts her baby's safety to the troubled, deadbeat father. In Vanda's Room is...

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Fontainhas (Lisbon, Portugal) Drama

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Older men Portugal Lisbon Drama

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Urban poor Portugal Lisbon Drama

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Women drug addicts Portugal Lisbon Drama

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ISBN:

9781604652390
9781604652383
9781604652376
9781604652369

Description:

4 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
polychrome
digital optical
videodisc
NTSC
video file DVD video

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Notes:

Collective title from container
Ossos also known as Bones; In Vanda's room has Portuguese title No quarto da Vanda; Colossal youth has Portuguese title Juventude em marcha
Ossos in 1.66:1 aspect ratio; In Vanda's room and Colossal youth in 1.33:1 aspect ratio
Originally produced as motion pictures between 1997 and 2006
Features: [disc 1] video conversations between Costa and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin; video interviews with critic João Bénard da Costa and cinematographer Emmanuel Machuel; video essay by artist Jeff Wall; gallery of photos by Mariana Viegas. [disc 2] audio commentary for In Vanda's Room featuring Costa and Gorin; gallery of photos by Richard Dumas. [disc 3] video conversations between Costa and filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin [disc 4] new selected-scene audio commentary for Colossal Youth with critic Cyril Neyrat and author-philosopher Jacques Ranciere; All Blossoms Again, a feature-length documentary on Costa; Tarrafal, and The Rabbit Hunters, two short films by Costa; Little Boy Male, Little Girl Female, a video installation piece by Costa featuring outtakes from In Vanda's Room and Colossal Youth. Booklet featuring essays by critics Cyril Neyrat, Ricardo Matos Cabo, Luc Sante, Thom Andersen, and Mark Peranson, as well as a reprint by Bernard Eisenschitz
[1st work] cinematography, Emmanuel Machuel ; editor, Jackie Bastide. [2nd work] filmed by Pedro Costa ; editors, Dominique Auvray, Patricia Saramago. [3rd work] editor, Pedro Marques ; cinematography, Pedro Costa, Leonardo Simões
Vanda Duarte, Nuno Vaz, Maria Lipkina, Isabel Ruth, Inẽs de Medeiros. [2nd work] Vanda Duarte, Zita Duarte, Lena Duarte, António Semedao Moreno, Paulo Nunes [3rd work] Ventura, Vanda Duarte, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta, Cila Cardoso, Isabel Cardoso
DVD; Dolby digital stereophonic; NTSC; region 1
Dialogue in Portuguese, with English subtitles

Contents:

[disc 1.] Ossos / Paulo Branco apresenta ; realização Pedro Costa ; uma co-produção Madragoa Filmes, Gémini Films, Zentropa Productions (1997)
[disc 2.] No quarto da Vanda / Contracosta apresenta en co-produçao com Pandora Film e Ventura Film ; réalizado, Pedro Costa ; produtores, Francisco Villa-Lobos, Karl Baumgartner, Andres Pfaeffli (2000)
[disc 3.] Juventude em marcha / Contracosta apresenta em co-produção com Les Films de l'Étranger .. [and others]; réalizaçio, Pedro Costa ; produtor, Francisco Villa-Lobos (2006)
[disc 4.] Supplements

Control Number:

3310662

UPC:

715515053013

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