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Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso

8,4 /10 (4,816 Votes)
1988 IT 124 min

Overview

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

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Release date

17/11/1988

Votes

4,816

Popularity

10.7

An enchanted village. A wonderful friendship. Star-crossed lovers. And the magic of the movies.

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

Language

IT

Runtime

124 min

Budget

$5,000,000

Revenue

$35,962,062

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Andres Gomez

2012-11-13

⭐ 8

Nice comedy-drama about the youth at the small town of an Italian kid.

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Shreyance Parakh

2017-05-04

⭐ 10

**Soulful** Why did it had to end... The movie was like a breath of fresh air.Every thing about it was so refreshing and soulful that you can never get bored of it.It's one of those movies that you can watch again and again and again...The music, the story, the acting, the direction, the editing, all of it makes this an absolutely beautiful gem of a movie. One of the best movies that i ever saw and will ever see not because it was any different from other movies or better written, directed or acted, but because it's MAGIC, it stays with you.The soul of the movie stays with you beyond the cr…

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tmdb86370050

2017-05-14

⭐ 9

When you think about cinematography, nowadays you usually think about digital cinematography. But during the early '50s, '60s, and onward, there was a use of this thing called film. Film was what they used in cameras before cameras actually saved them into memory slots digitally. Projectionists actually had to crank the film projectors early on, before the automatic film projectors started coming in, otherwise the film would catch on fire. This movie is about friendship between a projectionist in a film watcher/altar boy, and the film watcher/altar boy was young, maybe 4th grade age. This movi…

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

2023-04-03

⭐ 10

**Magnificent.** I saw this movie for the first time a good few years ago, but I only decided to talk about it now, after seeing it again. For me, it is one of the best Italian films ever made. It's like a modern fairy tale, showing us the fascinating side of cinema and reminding us why we love it. Of course, everything passes, and cinema has gone through many phases, it has undergone metamorphoses, and the end of the great classic movie theaters was one of them. And now? The pandemic has shown us that cinema can learn to survive without its theaters. And if we consider the manufacture of t…

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