NCMA Cinema: Cinema Paradiso

 
Friday, May 10 | 8 pm
(1988) Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Salvatore Cascio. (123 min.) Italian with English subtitles.

A film director returns to the village where his childhood was illuminated by the movies and the man who projected them. Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. “There are films as lovely, but none lovelier than Cinema Paradiso, a folkloric salute to the medium itself, flickering with yesterday’s innocence and lingering on the mind like bubbles in wine” (Washington Post).