Last week we asked readers to let us know what they think of Cinema Paradiso, the much-loved Italian drama which passes its 25th anniversary this month. We particularly enjoyed these reviews from Dave ...

Cinestudio begins a weeklong run of a classic Italian drama beloved by cinephiles. “Cinema Paradiso” tells the story of a little boy who grows up in a small town and makes friends with the local ...

The mark of a truly classic film is that its themes and subject matter are timeless, relatable to each successive generation even if the direct circumstances have passed. Cinema Paradiso falls ...

Twenty-five years on, it seems extraordinary that a critically underperforming Italian movie – a nostalgic, sentimental movie about moviegoing, to boot – by an unknown 32-year-old director should, ...

Cinema is life. That idea has always been the heart of Cinema Paradiso (1988). But now, the film that was originally released in Italy nearly 15 years ago as Nuovo Cinema Paradiso is … well, nuovo, ...

Nostalgia is a tough concept to comprehend. The memory of often happy moments can lead to a piercing sense of melancholy that is difficult to summarize in words. It is because of this that movies have ...

In ‘Cinema Paradiso,’ the village movie theater is the one place Toto feels at home. “Going to the movies always felt like something sacred.” That is how I opened my first Catholic Movie Club column ...

Tornatore’s specialist subject is nostalgia - Italian lives fragmented by internal migration, and the necessity of growing away from the world of one’s childhood. It’s a fruitful line of enquiry for a ...

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