Twenty-five years on, it seems extraordinary that a critically underperforming Italian movie – a nostalgic, sentimental movie about moviegoing, to boot – by an unknown 32-year-old director should, ...

“Cinema Paradiso” — Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1989 classic about Toto, the provincial Italian boy who adores movies, and Alfredo, the wounded old bear of a projectionist who nurtures him — has always been ...

Giuseppe Tornatore, the Italian director who won an Oscar for his 1989 film Cinema Paradiso, is in hospital after two men robbed him and beat him up in a Rome street. Tornatore, 51, has been in a Rome ...

From the start, Cinema Paradiso carries itself like one of the classics its adorable scamp gazes at, open-mouthed, from the projection room. It has an adorable scamp, for starters – and plenty besides ...

Cinema Paradiso is showing this Thursday, 30 July, at the Tim Hetherington Film Club at Farm Street in the Arrupe Hall at ...

A winner of awards across the world including Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, 5 BAFTA Awards including Best Actor, Original Screenplay and Score, the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film ...

Despite the crisis, the decreasing number of movie thea tres, the number of people who go to see movies is getting bigger day by day. Cinema Paradiso was a hit at the 1989 Cannes International Film ...

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