Cinema Paradiso

Il Postino Italian star and filmmaker Massimo Troisi was dying of heart failure even before this film, his dream project, began production, and he prevailed upon British director Michael Radford (White Mischief) to see him and the film through to the end. (The 40-year-old Troisi, a beloved ...	Life Is Beautiful Italy's rubber-faced funnyman Roberto Benigni accomplishes the impossible in his World War II comedy Life Is Beautiful: he shapes a simultaneously hilarious and haunting comedy out of the tragedy of the Holocaust. An international sensation and the most successful foreign langu...	The Bicycle Thief A beautiful simple story of man in post-war rome who needs his bicycle in order to work at his job. No sooner does he retrieve it from pawn then it is stolen. The heartwrenching search teaches the man and his son much about the meaning of life and just how far we will go when pus...	Ciao, Professore! From Academy Award(R)-nominated director Lina Wertmuller (Best Director -- SEVEN BEAUTIES; SWEPT AWAY) comes this spirited comedy hailed by critics coast-to-coast for its vitality and raunchy good humor. CIAO, PROFESSORE! is the story of an upper-class teacher from conservative N...	Cinema Paradiso: Original Soundtrack Recording (1988 Film) The initial effort in what's become an ongoing collaboration between filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore and composer Ennio Morricone (in this instance assisted by his son Andrea) remains one of the Italian musician's most internationally beloved works. The bittersweet tale of a young b...
Bread and Tulips Italy's magical fantasy of midlife crisis and rebirth in Venice, the city of lovers, swept the Italian film awards and charmed all of Europe. Director Silvio Soldini turns the tourist mecca of piazzas, canals, and stone bridges into a quaint little village out of time and fills t...	Malena When 12-year-old Renato, riding through his small Italian town on his new bicycle, sees the voluptuous Malèna, little does he know he's launching on an infatuation that will carry him through the tumultuous days of World War II. Malèna begins as an enraptured depiction of Renat...	Amelie Amelie is looking for love and perhaps for the meaning of life in general. We see her grow up in an original and slightly dysfunctional family. Now a waitress in central paris she interacts curiously with her neighbors and customers as well as a mysterious picture collector and o...	Jean De Florette / Manon of the Spring (MGM World Films) Disc 1 Side A: **Widescreen Feature Film - Jean de Florette Disc 2: **Widescreen Feature Film - Manon of the Spring	The Lives of Others The erotic & emotionally-charged story of one couple whose every private moment is being monitored by an east berlin secret police officer (the stasi) who is about to learn secrets that will change their lives - and his - forever. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03...

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.....

cinema paradiso
vhs tape in a very good quality. very happy with the purchase that i made.:)

I'm biased
This was my favorite film before I bought it, and it is still my #1.

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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!