Drama · Romance
Italian (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
1988 · Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore · 124 min
In a small Sicilian village after the Second World War, a boy becomes captivated by the local cinema and by the gruff projectionist who runs it. The film is told as a memory, mixing comedy, tenderness and longing for a vanished way of watching movies.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of late-twentieth-century cinephile nostalgia, it carried the Italian tradition of Fellini-style memory films to a worldwide audience just as the old neighbourhood cinema was disappearing.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a film about memory: notice how the past is warmer, funnier and more vivid than the present.
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