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Customer Ratings: 4.5 (from 300 reviews) |
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Amazon.com essential video
Giuseppe Tornatore's beautiful 1988 film about a little boy's love affair with the movies deservedly won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film and a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. Philippe Noiret plays a grizzled old projectionist who takes pride in his presentation of screen dreams for a town still recovering from World War II. When a child (Jacques Perrin) demonstrates fascination not only for movies but also for the process of showing them to an audience, a lifelong friendship is struck. This isn't just one of those films for people who are already in love with the cinema. But if you are one of those folks, the emotional resonance between the action in Tornatore's world and the images on Noiret's screen will seem all the greater--and the finale all the more powerful. --Tom Keogh |
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Cinema Paradiso's complex, interwoven tales of wartime Italy, a boy's coming of age, and the history of cinema can be viewed in their entirety on the Director's Cut included in this Deluxe Edition. Director Giuseppe Tornatore's additional 50 minutes of footage provides closure for the saga's detailing Alfredo's death, and Salvatore Di Vita's lost relationship with his teenage love, Elena. Most of the 50 minutes serves as a continuation of the story, rather than as previously deleted scenes. The original, already celebrated Cinema Paradiso follows Toto (Jacques Perrin), a Sicilian boy who persuades the town projectionist, Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), to teach him how to show films. Spanning nearly 50 years, the film craftily draws parallels between Toto's life and those lives he sees on screen. As Toto matures into Salvatore, a successful Italian filmmaker, the Cinema Paradiso ages as well. Salvatore's return home for Alfredo's funeral is also a goodbye to his Paradiso, demolished to become a parking lot. The film's heightened sense of nostalgia subtly mirrors our humanistic love of movies, making it a tribute to cinema as an artistic genre. The Director's Cut can be fulfilling if one felt unsatisfied by the more ambiguous ending of the theatrical release, but it also feels slightly overwrought. Two documentaries in this package feature fans and critics praising Cinema Paradiso, proving its endurance as a classic. However, as Salvatore discovers over the course of the film, there is no need to improve a masterpiece. --Trinie Dalton |
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| Product Details |
| Actor: |
- Antonella Attili
- Enzo Cannavale
- Isa Danieli
- Leo Gullotta
- Marco Leonardi
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| Aspect Ratio: |
1.33:1 |
| Audience Rating: |
R (Restricted) |
| Binding: |
DVD |
| Director: |
Giuseppe Tornatore |
| EAN: |
0065935145639 |
| Format: |
NTSC |
| Languages: |
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| Product Group: |
DVD |
| Region Code: |
1 |
| Theatrical Release Date: |
1990-02-23 |
| Title: |
Cinema Paradiso |
| UPC: |
065935145639 |
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| Customer Reviews |
Customer Rating: 5
Review Date: 2008-12-30
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Summary: amazing
I had first seemed this film in Prague and has become my old time favorite but had never seemed the director's cut which has brought closure to the Helena and Salvatore's love saga. I think this version is a must have for any fan of this masterpiece. If you do not have the director's cut; please get it, you will be treat it to a hold new dimmension of the director's point of view on what love and friendship really is.
Bravo, Bravo, Bravo..... |
Customer Rating: 5
Review Date: 2008-09-16
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Summary: cinema paradiso
vhs tape in a very good quality. very happy with the purchase that i made.:) |
Customer Rating: 5
Review Date: 2008-08-25
0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
Summary: I'm biased
This was my favorite film before I bought it, and it is still my #1. |
Customer Rating: 5
Review Date: 2008-08-13
0 out of 2 found this review helpful.
Summary: Another Great Transaction
As usual my transaction with Amazon was a pleasant experience. The product was ordered, confirmed and received in a timely manner. A tribute to the great service Amazon continues to provide their customers. |
Customer Rating: 3
Review Date: 2008-08-05
5 out of 5 found this review helpful.
Summary: What's wrong with the new version...
The undoubted sentimentality of Cinema Paradiso was nicely balanced by the elliptical restraint of the original release; the mundane details of the central tragedy was left unsaid, a teenage love was left unconsummated, (much like the love-stories shown at Cinema Paradiso, thanks to the censoring local priest) deepening Salvatore's loss to the point that it acquired universal application and appeal, and became art.
This courage and restraint has sadly been negated by the addition of the new material, or, more accurately, the material originally deleted. The effect is, to my mind, disastrous, reducing a vibrant, lilting film to a soap-opera which leaves little to the imagination. Now, instead of the poignant yearning of the original we have middle-age stalking, sordid fumbling in a parked car and rehashed declarations of undying love. Fom poetry to tellenovella in one easy step. Che peccato!
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