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  Review by höddi ★★★★★ 60

  Tonight, halfway through my third viewing of Giuseppe Tornatore´s "Cinema Paradiso", I asked myself a question. A question that I had asked myself a hundred times before, but never really known the answer to.

  "Why do I love cinema?"

  There are three things that I hold more dearly than anything in this world. My family, my friends and cinema.

  In short, my family gives me warm comfort and unconditional love.

  My friends give me idiotic laughter and unbreakable trust.

  So what about cinema?
  Is it the wonderful and imaginative escapism, one of the few means to transport yourself away from the mundane life you find yourself leading, and into a dream?
  Is it my ongoing search for an emotional connection?…

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★ 22

  i am just a kid. i've only been into movies for about 8 months and i know i have found my calling, my passion, and my life. in 10 years, will i still be insane and watch a movie every single day? will i still go to the cinema with my best friend and my mom? will i still spend all of my money of DVDs, just dreaming of having my own collection?

  i really hope so. cause this community, these movies, this life, is exactly what i want. there is nothing i want more. i love everything about it. i love what movies give people. not only do they give me a good laugh, tears, a smile, but they…

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  Review by kársten ★★★★½ 1

  need toto’s reaction to Uncut Gems (2019)

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★ 4

  “whatever you end up doing, love it”

  a movie about movies making me cry at 5:30 in the morning... silly behavior! but this is who i am

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  Review by maria ★★★★½

  theatres: projecting movies on building walls because of quarantine
  me: nice cinema paradiso reference

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 5

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  It’s wild how movies literally used to be able to burst into flames and blind you. Those were the days.

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  Review by SARAH🦕 ★★★★★ 2

  I wish Italians were real :/

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  Review by Jay ★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  alfredo rolling in that coffin after hearing toto came back to giancaldo

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  Review by BRÁT ★★★★ 4

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  they paved paradiso and put up a parking lot

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  Review by truman ★★★★★ 1

  hi i really love cinema and am NOT crying right now

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★★★ 13

  Pure magic

  Giuseppe Tornatore captures the joy of childhood, the power of cinema, and the ache of nostalgia all in one go. It will make you cry, laugh, and appreciate the people in your life. It is cinema.

  I rewatched this on an outdoor projector with some friends in light of Ennio Morricone's passing as I felt this was the best way to honor his legacy and this film. Ennio has meant so much to me throughout my life, and will continue to. I have played Gabriel's Oboe at three weddings now on cello and hope to have it played at mine as well.

  A couple years ago when I was going to study abroad in Paris, I found out…

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 9

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Watched the 174 min. director’s cut at the New Beverly– my first film at the New Bev, somehow! Wonderful. A really special film to see in a theater, and very clear how much Tarantino loves this movie ‘cause it’s influence is all over Inglourious Basterds. (And a bunch of other people’s movies!)

  I always feel very moved by a movie about how wonderful it is to make or love movies but this isn’t that. This is a movie about the theater as a church. Not in its religious aspect, but in the community of it– how a theater can hold your special memories, can feel like a little town of it’s own, can introduce you to your innermost desires and…