José Fonseca e Costa

José Fonseca e Costa was born on 27 June 1933 in Caála, Angola. A critic and film-club leader in Lisbon, he ran a publishing house where a series on the language of cinema was born that trained the following generation. Ranked first in the competition for assistant at the nascent television service, he was barred from it by the political police; a scholarship to study cinema in the United Kingdom was refused him, and he was arrested for his activities against the regime. In 1961 he left for Italy, where he was a trainee under Michelangelo Antonioni. He died in Lisbon on 1 November 2015.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe MessageO RecadoJosé Fonseca e Costa · 1972Cinema