Centennial

I have misssed a couple anniversaries already this week - (Pearl Harbor!? John Lennon's death) - so I don't want to miss this one: Manoel de Oliveira's birthday! 100 Years old and still at it, with what appears to be another film about doomed love in production.... (Thanks to Tativille for the reminder.) He's had an astonishing career and life - how many filmmakers' centennial's are celebrated with the filmmaker still around? let alone still working, and working steadily... And while he sometimes gets more attention for being the Oldest Living Filmmaker, he deserves more for being one of the best living filmmakers - I admit that his work can be a bit uneven, but everything I've seen has been intriguing, and at his best, he's among the best....