Cinema Paradiso on TCM 7:00 CST.

This is not a travel post, but it certainly is an Italian post! Actually, it can serve as a great way to imagine yourself back in Italy until you can actually be there.

IMHO - one of the very best Italian movies with wonderful music.
Enjoy,
Carol

Do you know if they are showing the 2 hr. edited version or the extended version?

carol,
i love that movie soooooo much. i bought it several years ago and watch it regularly.
i've always wished i could have experienced italy in the 1950s, and this is as close to it as i'll get.

I hate the "extended version"/"Director's cut". So full of melodromatic cr@p and completely ruins the effect imho.

I've kept my old crumbling VHS recording of the edited version that won the Oscar. If anyone knows where I can get a DVD of the edited version, let me know!

Saint_Bambi, is your mum Valda in Australia?
Because that DVD is available on ebay in Australia right now here.

And there are 17 for sale in Italy.

It sounds like a good movie

It's the original (short version).

Cinema Paradiso - TCM

Thanks for the heads up. All I have to do is see the opening shot and hear the music and I start blubbering. My husband and I did a slide show of us when we were kids and our families/friends etc at our wedding three years ago and we used the music from Cinema Paradiso. The last slide was the duomo in Florence!

Thanks!

I hardly ever watch TV so excuse how clueless I am but what channel is TCM?

It's Turner Classic Movies.

Thanks for posting this. I watched it and it was delightful!

One of Josh Groban's CD's has that beautiful song on it and he sings it in Italian. I have always loved that song and didn't realize it was from a real Italian movie. Thanks for the heads up on this very moving movie.

Sharon J

I cannot tell a lie !
I saw it last nite for the first time. I was very moved--what a great story.

Persia, yes, I'm Valda's daughter.

Unfortunately, the DVD version for sale is the Director's Cut with 45 minutes of added garbage.

If you come to Sicily make sure you pay a visit to Palazzo Adriano, a village not far from Corleone where the movie was shot. See the piazza of Cinema Paradiso and the Museum with pictures taken at the time of the actual filming.

Michele Gallo

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