Manoel de Oliveira @ 100.

"When Portugal's Manoel de Oliveira turns 100 on Friday, the world's oldest filmmaker will be doing what he loves most: shooting a movie - in this case his 46th feature-length film." The AFP reports.

Online viewing tip. Marco Lemos talks with Oliveira for euronews.

Cahiers du cinema offers a pictorial salute.

Updated through 12/13.

Congrats in the German-language papers: Walter Haubrich (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Claudia Lenssen (taz), Josef Nagel (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), Hanns-Georg Rodek (Welt) and Jan Schulz-Ojala (Tagesspiegel).

See also: Scott Foundas (LA Weekly, March), Randal Johnson (Senses of Cinema, 2003) and Jonathan Rosenbaum (Film Comment, July/August).

Updates: Flickhead gives us "a discussion between Oliveira and Jacques Parsi, who worked on several of Oliveira's scripts, aiding in the French translation and dialog on Party (1996), Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo and O Princípio da Incerteza (2002). For Je rentre à la maison (2001), Parsi worked on the screenplay and played a small role. Conducted for its presskit, the two men discuss Je rentre à la maison, sex, Buñuel and James Joyce."

"What makes Oliveira unique, is that he is not only the oldest living working director, but that his films have retained their quality," writes Ronald Bergan in the Guardian.

Michael J Anderson: "For those who are less familiar with the director, let me direct you to a series of posts that I have dedicated to Oliveira during my three-and-a-half years writing for this site."

Update, 12/13: Wim Wenders wishes Oliveira all the best in Die Zeit (and in German).

Posted by dwhudson at December 11, 2008 6:24 AM