{"id":84,"date":"2012-11-15T23:24:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T12:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2018-12-26T20:17:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T09:17:03","slug":"cinema-paradiso-a-film-by-giuseppe-tornatore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"‘CINEMA PARADISO’ (1989): A FILM BY GIUSEPPE TORNATORE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some gifts have the power of stirring our deepest, most dormant memories by simultaneously conjuring the ghostly legacies of others.<\/p>\n

In writer\/director Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso<\/em> (1989), Salvatore ‘Toto’ de Vita, a prominent Rome-based filmmaker, returns to his Sicilian hometown of Giancaldo after receiving news of the death of Alfredo, the projectionist of its eponymous cinema and his former childhood mentor. Arriving after a thirty-year absence, Salvatore encounters a landscape that has changed as much by the vicissitudes of time and technology as by the facility (and fallibility) of his own memory.<\/p>\n

After attending Alfredo’s funeral in the company of the townsfolk of his childhood, Salvatore reunites with his grieving widow who presents him with a package: a steel canister containing a reel of 35 mm film prepared by her deceased husband. Returning to Rome, Salvatore screens the footage in a studio theatre and encounters the sensuous (and censored) fragments of motion pictures that coloured and shaped his childhood.<\/p>\n

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film, Tornatore’s nostalgic, post-war drama is a tender love story and a triumphant love letter to cinema. And more than twenty years on, it maintains its poignancy, relevance and stature as a masterpiece of story telling.<\/p>\n

– Dr. Varga Hosseini<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some gifts have the power of stirring our deepest, most dormant memories by simultaneously conjuring the ghostly legacies of others. In writer\/director Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso (1989), Salvatore ‘Toto’ de Vita, a prominent Rome-based filmmaker, returns to his Sicilian hometown of Giancaldo after receiving news of the death of Alfredo, the projectionist of its eponymous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kinetikink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}