Salvatore Cascio and Philippe Noiret in Cinema Paradiso courtesy Miramax Films
A movie about growing up at the movies she-demons vs holy man a time-travel comedy and moreQuestion I love reading your weekly column and know youll be able to help me I cant remember the name of an Italian movie I saw in the late 1980s or early 90s Its about a boy growing up in a small village he spends a lot of time at the cinema and the man who runs it becomes a father figure to him The church requires that the man cut out any kissing scenes before the movies are shown and the boy is always trying to look at the deleted scenes which the man keeps in a box Lots of stuff I dont remember happens in the middle but the boy grows up and I think he becomes a filmmaker When the old man dies the boy now a man returns to the village and finds that the man spliced together all the kissing scenes to create a movie and left it for him I remember it being a very moving story and would like to share it with my friends but I dont remember the title and I did
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Ask FlickChick Top Five Guilty Movie Pleasures and MoreQuestion I like challenging thought-provoking movies as much as the next guy but I also love pure unadulterated cheese real Mystery Science Theater 3000-quality junk My biggest guilty pleasure is Ed Wood movies Do you have any guilty pleasures or are you strictly into quality movies EliFlickChick Oh I have a soft spot for junk I also have a rant about guilty pleasures indulge me please that goes something like this The fact that you love Plan 9 from Outer Space 1959 doesnt inherently make you stupid or invalidate your love for Citizen Kane 1941 so stand by your low-brow passionsThere Now here are my top five really trashy movie faves in ascending order 5 Barbarella 1968What it is a sexadelic adaptation of the erotic comic series about a beautiful space tart Jane Fonda sorry astronavigatrex and her adventures across the universeWhats so bad Tacky ta
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