Films Of Pioneering Portuguese Director João César Monteiro To Receive 4K Restorations, Cinema Guild Lands North American Rights
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The subversive and experimental works of Portuguese filmmaker João César Monteiro have long been unavailable or difficult to view in the U.S.
thanks to tight copyright laws and poor preservation. But that’s all about to change. The NYC-based Cinema Guild has acquired North American distribution rights to Monteiro’s films and is planning a broad theatrical retrospective of the films—all newly restored in 4K—in the U.S.
and Canada in early 2025. The deal was negotiated by Edward McCarry and Peter Kelly of Cinema Guild with Branco of Leopardo Filmes.
Digital and home video releases will follow the theatrical retrospective in 2025. Born into a wealthy Catholic family and raised in Lisbon, Monteiro was one of the most controversial and unusual filmmakers of his generation.
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