For the fifth episode of our special retrospective season, we’re looking back to our season on the awesome movie year of 1989 to feature another foreign film pick, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso. Written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore and starring Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Marco Leonardi, Agnese Nano, Salvatore Cascio and Leopoldo Trieste, Cinema Paradiso won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cinema-paradiso-1990), Desson Thomson in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/cinemaparadisonrhowe_a0b255.htm), and Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/02/movies/review-film-cinema-paradiso-memories-of-movies-in-a-movie.html).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for our next retrospective installment covering the awesome movie year of 1967, featuring another of Jason’s personal picks, Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde.