Unless you’re Paul Schrader, chances are you have fond
childhood memories connected to cinema if you’re an adult devotee of movies.
For me, it’s my faint memories of being an expert in inserting and ejecting VHS
tapes in my families VCR player before I even learned how to talk! That kind of
childhood connection to cinema can have long term effects that are felt well
into adulthood and Giuseppe Tornatore’s Oscar-winning feature Cinema Paradiso
isn’t just aware of this, it’s the foundation on which the entire story is
built. Unlike sand, the experience of youthful love for cinema turns out to be a great foundation on which to build something.
