Comments on: Movie Review – The Timeless “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”

By: Farnoosh

Farnoosh — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:16:17 +0000

Indeed, a fabulous movie – my friends could not believe I had not seen this so I am very happy that we made the time to watch this movie one night. It moved me deeply. I would see it again too, Abbas. Thank you so much for sharing your love of this movie with me!

By: Abbas

Abbas — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:09:42 +0000

A Paradiso review!
Cinema Paradiso is one of my ” top 10″ for the long times, it is the movie I missed and I look for when I am sad or I feel happy, I have seen it more than 20 times and I have read many articles about it, although I found something new in your essay – poetical and emotional- like the movie, concerning the theme, the story and the characters of the story. So I enjoyed it and I will read it again and again!
Thank you very much for your paradiso review!

By: Farnoosh

Farnoosh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:00:15 +0000

Craig, and your comment was an unexpected gift among today’s mass of emails. Thank you and glad you enjoyed the movie much as I did. It was a true classic in every sense.

By: Craig Jones

Craig Jones — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:00:26 +0000

I never thought I would find someone who loves this movie as much as I do… I tell everyone about it. And I don’t speak Italian either, but that doesn’t stop me from crying through the whole movie. I don’t even remember what year it was I first saw this movie, but it was long before they came out with the Extended Cut version. Personally, I think it was quite complete the way I first saw it. I loved reading your review, you choose your words wonderfully. Your review just brought back the feeling of the film to me, but of course, I’ve watched it many times. Thank you for your beautiful review, it was an unexpected gift.

By: The fabulous Toronto International Film Festival | Prolific Living

The fabulous Toronto International Film Festival | Prolific Living — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:14:29 +0000

[...] Cinema Paradiso moved me deeply. I found it to be a timeless story and mention the strengths of Giuseppe Tornatore’s directing on the movie blog post. He has now created a second film very similar in plot, and characters and setting to Cinema Paradiso. I think perhaps his first mistake was just that, because you cannot create a second masterpiece by borrowing from the first one. Any masterpiece must stand alone. Baaria disappointed on many scales. This was a loud and incoherent film, filled by unrelated sub-plots running along topics of politics and particularly Communism as it influences the main character, superstition in the form of old woman and her crazy son, the element of the dream and possible time travel, the love story, the fathers and brothers, and the loud squeaks from children, animals, festivals, armies, trains, screaming women. He was trying to do too much, and not succeeding at any one single plot. Sadly, the plots did not weave into the main story and to me, Peppino’s life seemed out of focus and scattered over too many pieces to follow. This was a huge disappointment, as I was expecting heaps more from the reviews and reputation of the director. [...]