Some very interesting and important differences, but as a work on its own -- too long, tedius. See the original, nicely-edited version first.
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01/23/06
Cinema Paradiso Director's Cut (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 23
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 7.9/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Jun 14, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: Cinema Paradiso is the story of a famous Italian film director who returns home to a Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years away. At home he is re-connected with he life and... [More]
Starring: Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli, Leo Gullotta, Marco Leonardi
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
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Reviews for Cinema Paradiso Director's Cut
Tuvieron que pasar 5 años para que pudiéramos apreciar la historia original como la concibiera su creador; no obstante, prácticamente se trata de dos películas distintas.
09/17/04
This version's no classic like its predecessor, but its pleasures are still plentiful.
11/20/02
'Film aficionados cannot help but love Cinema Paradiso, whether the original version or new Director's Cut.'
07/26/02
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07/21/02
Top CriticThe heightened symmetry of this new/old Cinema Paradiso makes the film a fuller experience, like an old friend haunted by the exigencies of time.
07/19/02
In the director's cut, the film is not only a love song to the movies but it also is more fully an example of the kind of lush, all-enveloping movie experience it rhapsodizes.
07/19/02
Top CriticThe film's final hour, where nearly all the previous unseen material resides, is unconvincing soap opera that Tornatore was right to cut.
07/19/02
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07/19/02
Top CriticTurns out to be much more complex than the originally released gem.
07/18/02
Still rapturous after all these years, Cinema Paradiso stands as one of the great films about movie love.
07/11/02
Top CriticIn the new release of Cinema Paradiso, the tale has turned from sweet to bittersweet, and when the tears come during that final, beautiful scene, they finally feel absolutely earned.
07/01/02
This director's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera.
06/28/02
Top CriticWhere the original release was an essay in childish delight and adolescent longing, topped off by a muted coda implying that you really can go home again, the reissue is a fully realized epic of the heart.
06/28/02
Top CriticI'm happy to have seen it -- not as an alternate version, but as the ultimate exercise in viewing deleted scenes.
06/28/02
Top CriticThe additional storyline is interesting and entertaining, but it doesn't have the same magical quality as the beginning of the story. I like the new footage and still love the old stuff.
06/28/02
Less front-loaded and more shapely than the two-hour version released here in 1990.
06/27/02
Top CriticAs it turns out, you can go home again.
06/27/02
Top CriticI don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 Paradiso will prefer this new version. But I do.
06/27/02
Top CriticThis version moves beyond the original’s nostalgia for the communal film experiences of yesteryear to a deeper realization of cinema’s inability to stand in for true, lived experience.
06/26/02
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