Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Lee P (A) on June 30, 2002 at 01:35:32

In Reply to: Re: Malena ? terrible ! cinema was better,but.. posted by patricku on June 28, 2002 at 10:16:26:

I didn't say Cinema Paradiso wasn't good (3.5 stars out of 5 is more realistic), it wasn't good enough to give it a oscar for the best foreign picture.

Malena, there's just a minority who didn't like it. Read the review at www.imdb.com, most of them agree with me that Malena is a excellent movie (4.5 stars).

BTW, there's a film very similar to Cinema Paradiso: Shadow Magic, which is a really good film and won some award for best picture (4 stars):

Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. Liu's work with Wallace brings him conflict with tradition and his father's authority, complicated by his falling in love with Ling, daughter of Lord Tan, star of Beijing's traditional opera. Liu sees movies as his chance to become wealthy and worthy of Ling. When the Shadow Magic pair are invited to show the films to the Empress Dowager, things look good. But, is disaster in the script? And, can movies preserve tradition even as they bring change?

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