Cinema Paradiso
1988 ‘Nuovo Cinema Paradiso’ Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Synopsis
A celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies.
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
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My Favorite Movie Ever, Ever, Ever.
I remember the first time I saw Cinema Paradiso. I was in high school, at a friend's party. After we all went to sleep, I was the first to wake up, and since I knew I would be the only one up for quite a while, I looked through my iPod for movies I had downloaded. One of them was Cinema Paradiso, which had been recommended to me by my friend.
Fast forward nearly 3 hours later (I watched the Director's Cut), and I was in tears, hoping none of my friends would wake up to see me in such an emotional state.
I immediately knew I had seen something special.
Now, I've noticed…
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Film #9, Country #9 (Italy) in the 30 Countries in 30 Days Challenge
What a brilliant and charming tale! Cinema Paradiso is a tale for the ages. There is an intriguing story, pace, memorable characters and the inescapable beauty of the Italian countryside.
Cinema Paradiso is an ode to the traditional movie theaters and the mesmerizing effect it has on it's audience. Writer and director Giuseppe Tornatore touching tale of Salvatore's tormenting first love affair and his return to the town as a middle-aged man all come back to one thing, passion. Whether it be passion for another person, or passion for the cinema. The movie is obviously born from director Giuseppe Tornatore's childhood memories. Tornatore, was inspired the realization… -
A wonderful film and yes it gets a little cheesy in parts but it's so delightfully charming and full of innocence I find it impossible to fault.
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30 Countries Challenge // #3 - Italy
As this film progressed, I found myself getting more and more annoyed. Not because I wasn't enjoying the film, but because Netflix had fobbed me off with the shortened 'International version' of the film, which cuts out half an hour from the original, and I simply didn't want it to end.
Cinema Paradiso is probably the best cinematic homage to cinema ever made, and makes Scorsese's recent effort of Hugo look like a mess. It manages to pay respects to almost every genre of film, while incorporating all of them into its own story as well. Love, drama, laughter, happiness, sadness - Paradiso takes you through the whole spectrum of emotions and pulls…
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A film about love, cinema, and the love of cinema.
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Un clásico que todo cinéfilo debe amar. Conmovedora y profunda película de Giuseppe Tornatore. Aparte, la película muestra aspectos relativos a la realidad italiana de ese período. Es un homenaje al cine, que nos enseña el impacto de éste en la sociedad.
Hace referencia a figuras de la historia del cine como Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, sólo por citar a algunos.
Phillippe Noiret hace una actuación excelente como una figura paternal para Totó, de quien las interpretaciones cumplen.
Por otro lado, el maravilloso Soundtrack de Ennio Morriconne, conmovedor, eriza la piel.
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this coulda been pretty good if it was like only the first half and less boring
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Heard alot about this film..and its just fantastic..a absolute classic.Straight in to my top 20 of all time...be scared to watch it again as my watch was so damn brilliant...got me very emotional too.
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This is a charming movie about a kid named Toto growing up in the 40s and 50s in Italy and his friendship with a projectionist that eventually becomes his own job. The first half was funny and engaging, but it lost me a little bit with the "so what?" love story in the second half which became quite sappy at times. However, the last scene of the movie is very sweet.
My favorite part was this story the projectionist told to the boy. There's an explanation to the story later on in the movie which is sappy, so I'll just leave you with the story which makes it seem like a dark, but interesting, tale.
Alfredo: I'll tell you a…
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Still delightful.
I haven't seen the extended cut, but I read about it after watching this. Yeah, I'll be skipping it.
I love that it's about the love of movies and friendship and first loves and not the more serious turn that the extended seems to go to.
Some of the dubbing is distracting and while a lot of the shenanigans are sweetly wacky, it does get to be a bit much by the end.
But oh, the end. What a wonderful, perfect way to end a movie about movies. Hell, to just plain end a movie.
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Part of the Pacific Cinematheque's 24-Hour Film Festival.
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Like most of a certain generation of Irish kids I studied this at school for the Leaving Cert. So it brings back a mix of memories, mainly a class of about 30 all straining to read the subtitles on the tiny TV at the front of the class room. Other memories include awe, tears, a warm fuzzy feeling in my chest where previously there had been only emptiness, and that last scene of Toto and what Alfredo left for him, you know the one. Maybe the greatest scene in all of cinema?
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La vi en clases. Nunca la habia visto y me lamento de eso. Que belleza que peliculón.
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kiss kiss
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Un clásico que todo cinéfilo debe amar. Conmovedora y profunda película de Giuseppe Tornatore. Aparte, la película muestra aspectos relativos a la realidad italiana de ese período. Es un homenaje al cine, que nos enseña el impacto de éste en la sociedad.
Hace referencia a figuras de la historia del cine como Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, sólo por citar a algunos.
Phillippe Noiret hace una actuación excelente como una figura paternal para Totó, de quien las interpretaciones cumplen.
Por otro lado, el maravilloso Soundtrack de Ennio Morriconne, conmovedor, eriza la piel.