CINEMA PARADISO Tribute to Miramax: Ten Years of Hits

Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 1989 as well as the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, Cinema Paradiso is one of the most delightful films ever made about the joys of the movies. Cinema Paradiso is the story of a boy who learns to love cinema from the projectionist in a small town movie house in post-war Sicily and what happens to him in later life.The news that his mentor has died gives the boy, now an Italian film director, nostalgic memories about his apprenticeship in the theater of the title. “Tornatore has plugged into something vital about the hold movies have on us. Movie lovers will lose their hearts to Cinema Paradiso, not out of nostalgia, but for Tornatore’s vigorous demonstration of the enduring power of dream.” -Peter Travers