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Mia Wasikowska in Stoker (2013) ♡

anyway tommy trying not to cry in front of alfie and alfie making him smile moments after/telling him about his own glasses to try and cheer him up….these are GANGSTERS MA'AM

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Peaky Blinders Season 2 | Episode 1

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Philippe Noiret and Salvatore Cascio in Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)

Cast: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Agnese Nano, Antonella Atti, Enzo Cannavale, Isa Danieli, Leopoldo Trieste, Roberta Lena, Nino Terzo, Leo Gullotta, Tano Cimarosa, Nicola Di Pinto. Screenplay: Giuseppe Tornatore, Vanna Paoli. Cinematography: Blasco Giurato. Production design: Andrea Crisanti. Film editing: Mario Morra. Music: Ennio Morricone.

Will today’s kids feel sentimental about the multiplexes in which they see movies, the way I feel about the small-town theaters where I grew up, the places where I learned to love movies? I have my own lost cinema paradises, so I should be the right audience for Cinema Paradiso, with its tribute to a bygone era of moviegoing. Tornatore’s movie has some good things going on, including the performance of Philippe Noiret as Alfredo, and the wonderful rapport between Noiret and young Salvatore Cascio as Toto. Leopoldo Trieste’s performance as the censorious Father Adelfio is also a delight, and ending the film with Alfredo’s assemblage of the kissing scenes the priest made him excise is a masterly bit. But once Toto grows up to be the lovestruck teenager Salvatore (Marco Leonardi), I begin to lose interest, as Tornatore’s screenplay lards on more and more sentimentality. I’ve seen the 155-minute version twice now, though I have yet to see the 173-minute “director’s cut” of the film, in which, I am told, the grownup Salvatore (Jacques Perrin) is reunited with his teen love Elena (Agnese Nano), now grown up and played by Brigitte Fossey. Frankly, I don’t much want to: The 155-minute version seems overlong as it is. Cinema Paradiso is beloved by many, and often makes lists of people’s favorite foreign-language films, but I find it thin and conventional.