CINEMA PARADISO BY GIUSEPPE TORNATORE

This cinema paradiso theme is about a film director named Salvatore and a cinema projectionist named Alfredo. The film roles to its flash back after Salvatore learnt from his sleeping girl friend that someone named Alfredo have died. The flash back features a little but a very intelligent boy of a war widowed mother discovers his love for cinema at the age of six when he befriends with a fatherly projectionist called Alfredo in a cinema hall called paradise. There due to censorship the film often jumps from one scene to the other to avoid some intimate scene. One day the movie house catches with fire Salvatore saves the life of Alfredo but cannot save him from being permanently blind. After Alfredo Salvatore becomes the projectionist but Alfredo brain washes him to leave the small town to fulfill his dreams. When Salvatore returns to the town to attend Alfredo's funeral he is given on behalf of Alfredo an unnamed reel of some movie and a stool on which Salvatore used to stand when he was small. Salvatore returns to Rome and checks the reel. To his surprise the reel consists of all the censored kisses that were cut out of the reels.

Key casts are Marco Leonardi as Salvatore (adolescent), Salvatore Cascio as Salvatore (child), Jacques Perrin as Salvatore (adult), Philippe Noiret as Alfredo.



10 Reasons you should watch Cinema Paradiso:

1. The film is a charming Italian cinema emphasizing on friendship between two people who belong to two different generations.
2. The film reaffirms the power and magic of cinema.
3. Cinema Paradiso is a movie lover's delight.
4. The emotion, bondage and sentiments that are shown between a young boy and his mentor is great.
5. Cinema Paradiso film is one of the best Italian movies.
6. This one of the top Italian language films is also one of the top 100 foreign films of all time.
7. Director Giuseppe Tornatore has created a masterpiece with his movie Cinema Paradiso.
8. The actors have mesmerized the audience with their performances.
9. cinema paradiso movie has own a number of prestigious awards.
10. The film is the winner of The Academy awards for The Best Foreign Film.

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Everybody's fine: The film is about a retired Sicilian railroad worker who is a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs.

Blue Valentine: he film talks about a contemporary married couple who are charting their evolution over a wide span of years by cross-cutting.

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* Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 March 1956) is an Italian film director.Born in Bagheria near Palermo.Tornatore's best known screen work was released in 1989: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, a film narrating the life of a successful film director who has returned to his native town in Sicily for the funeral of an old friend.
* He worked initially as a freelance photographer. Then, switching to cinema, he made his debut with Le minoranze etniche in Sicilia (The Ethnic Minorities in Sicily), a collaborative documentary which won a Salerno Festival prize. He then worked for RAI before releasing his first full-length film, Il Camorrista, in 1985. This evoked a positive response from audience and critics alike and Tornatore was awarded the Silver Ribbon for best new director.

* 1986: The Professor (Il camorrista)
* 1989: Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
* 1990: Everybody's Fine (Stanno tutti bene)
* 1993: Especially on Sunday (segment "Il cane blu")
* 1994: A Pure Formality (Una pura formalità)
* 1995: The Star Maker (L'uomo delle stelle)
* 1995: Lo schermo a tre punte (documentary)
* 1996: Ritratti d'autore: seconda serie documentary) * 1998: The Legend of 1900 (La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano) * 2000: Malèna
* 2006: The unknown woman (La sconosciuta)* 2008: Baarìa - La porta del vento * TBA: Leningrad

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