Word: paradiso
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Cinema Paradiso A little boy in a small Italian town serves as acolyte to the keeper of the flame -- the projectionist in the local theater. With graceful sentiment, director Giuseppe Tornatore evokes the magic by which our first films grasp at memory...
...latest roman a clef, An Inconvenient Woman (Crown; 458 pages; $19.95). And why not? Everyone else in the novel seems to have stepped directly from a '40s feature: plutocrat Jules Mendelson; his socialite wife Pauline; his long-suffering mistress Flo March; and a sexually ambiguous friend, the late Hector Paradiso. Hector's violent death was marked as suicide, but Mendelson knows who shot him and why. The cover-up is reminiscent of an actual Los Angeles scandal; the malicious dialogue and the insider's knowledge of West Coast society are Dunne's alone. The mix is simultaneously off-putting...
...niche marketing shrewdly chosen, low-budget "art house" films, most of which have been rejected by the big studios as noncommercial. Miramax Co- Chairmen Harvey Weinstein, 37, and his brother Bob, 35, have proved them wrong. Three of the ten films they released last year -- My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso and sex, lies, and videotape -- are up for a total of seven Academy Awards this month. The Weinsteins have also earned something rare among independents: big profits...
...CINEMA PARADISO. In this Oscar nominee for best foreign picture, a Sicilian boy of the 1950s sees movies as the whole world -- a panorama of laughter, drama and forbidden dreams...
Since early fall, Alethea W. Black '91 and Kristina W. Friberg '91 have sold Tasti D-Lite out of the Cafe Paradiso on Brattle St. Already they have a following...