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Volume 1 (1999/2000)
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Alan Early
Marian College, Mohill, Co. Leitrim
The new English Leaving Cert Course includes a list
of five films to study. Alan Early reviews them:
Dances with Wolves
Cinema Paradiso
Room With A View
My Left Foot
The Third Man
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, this Italian (subtitled) movie won the
Oscar for Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1989. It has truly wonderful, memorable
moments. We begin by meeting Toto, a prominent Italian film director who
gets a phone call from his mother informing him that one of his old, good
friends, Alfredo has just died. Toto goes home for the funeral and on
his way remembers back to when he was a young boy, lost in the world of
movies - a world he believed that Alfredo, the projectionist, created.
Many of his memories strongly resemble scenes from the silver screen
that Toto loved, ranging from slapstick (a man falling off a ladder) to
romantic and extremely poignant (a first love moving away). Don't let
the fact that this film is subtitled put you off watching it. The imagery
is often stunning, especially the montage of kisses that Alfredo had to
edit out by order of the Village priest, proving that the gruff projectionist
really had a soft heart. And you will too after watching this. Highly
recommended!
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