#Cinema Paradiso (1988)

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[vincekris]

Cinema Paradiso (1988), Giuseppe Tornatore

[wehavewords]

“Whatever you end up doing, love it.”

Cinema Paradiso, dir. Giuseppe Tornatore

[watchmorecinema]

I was thinking about the Super Mario Bros movie for some reason. Not the weird fun one from the 90's, the new popular one. I didn't really like it, because it was mainly a bunch of references to Mario. Meandering plot, uninteresting writing - you'd get the same emotional response from reading a wikipedia page listing all the products Mario was in.

It got me thinking about how Ready Player One was the same way, and why. Why wouldn't I like a movie about a bunch of stuff I already like?

Cinema Paradiso is about the joy you find in watching films. The Fablemans is about the joy of creating films. Living in Oblivion is a critique of how the process of making a film is long, boring and mostly annoying, with the end message being that every film that gets released is a miracle. High Fidelity is literally about music store employees, but it can be generalized to be about the kind of person that enjoys anything seriously. Film buffs, literature nerds, gym rats, anyone that's really into something is represented by that film.

Even if the movie isn't really about art it can still be about nostalgia. Wild Strawberries, My Dinner with Andre, The Holdovers and Mirror are all movies about reflecting on the life you've had and dealing with the emotions of regret and nostalgia. About a time of your life that you wish you could go back to so you could relive it, or a terrible time you'd like to fix retroactively.

Ready Player One and the Mario movie aren't about celebrating films, or games, or any kind of culture and they're not about reflecting on anything. They're just lazy regurgitations of pop culture. Ready Player One will remind you that Akira exists, but it doesn't have anything interesting to say about it. It doesn't have anything to say about the time period that produced movies like Robocop, just that Robocop existed at one point. What reflections or thoughts are to be gained from being told that Back to the Future happened? You're better off just watching Back to the Future.

To prove my point: I namedropped a bunch of movies in this post and it was probably really, really annoying to read as a result.

[theoscarsproject]

Cinema Paradiso (1988). Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.

Honestly can't believe it took me this long (and The Oscars Project) to finally watch this one. What a staggering feat of cinema, not just a love story to the medium itself, but the community it creates around it. Profoundly beautiful and tender and oddly un-self-consious for a movie of this sort. An all-timer for me, I think. 10/10.

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

柯一正 Yizheng Ke (b. 1988)

Shanghai, China

生活並不像電影裡那樣。 生活要困難得多。

Life is not like in the movies. Life is much … harder.

─ Cinema Paradiso (1988) 新天堂樂園

[tinyreviews]

The feels would have hit harder if Alfredo knew Elena had hidden the note and personally intervened to intercept the note, only to give it back to Toto, with his apologies, should Toto ever return.

Cinema Paradiso (Italian: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) is a 1988 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. This Italian-French co-production stars Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Leopoldo Trieste, Marco Leonardi, Agnese Nano and Salvatore Cascio.

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Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Letterboxd: 4.5⭐ País: Italia Duración: 124 mins

[gutierrezferreira]

totó e os amigos no cinema paradiso.

Ha vuelto

[cosmicportal]

Cinema Paradiso (1988) Director: Giuseppe Tornature

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Cinema Paradiso (1988)

[davidboreanaz]

Cinema Paradiso (1988) dir. Giuseppe Tornatore

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cinema paradiso (1988)

[mattydemise]

Cinema Paradiso, 1988.