Salvatore saves Alfredo's life, but not before a reel of nitrate film explodes in Alfredo's face, leaving him permanently blind. Cinema Paradiso catches fire as Alfredo is projecting The Firemen of Viggiù after hours, on the wall of a nearby house. The local priest had ordered these sections censored, and the deleted scenes are piled on the projection room floor, where Alfredo keeps them until he can splice them back in for the film to be sent to the next town.Īlfredo eventually teaches Salvatore how to operate the film projector. During the shows, the audience can be heard booing when there are missing sections, causing the films to suddenly jump, bypassing a critical romantic kiss or embrace. Although they initially start off on tense terms, he develops a friendship with the middle-aged projectionist, Alfredo, who often lets him watch movies from the projection booth. Nicknamed Toto, he discovers a love for films and spends every free moment at the movie house Cinema Paradiso. As his girlfriend asks him who Alfredo is, Salvatore flashes back to his childhood.Ī few years after World War II, eight-year-old Salvatore is the mischievous, intelligent son of a war widow. Salvatore obviously shies from committed relationships and has not been to his home village of Giancaldo, Sicily in thirty years.
In addition, there will be a display of ephemera from the Vogue preserved by former Vogue staff members and local cinema archivist David Conover.In 1988 Rome, famous film director Salvatore Di Vita returns home late one evening, where his girlfriend sleepily tells him that his mother called to say someone named Alfredo has died. This fall marks the 20th anniversary since its closing and this series celebrates beloved films that played at the Vogue. Matthews packed houses and gave an informal film education to the region. Rated R.ĭeep in Vogue: Louisville’s Treasured Cinemaįor over 20 years, the Vogue Theater was Louisville’s celebrated arthouse cinema with a plethora of screenings of classic Hollywood fare, foreign films, wild cult films, children’s matinees, American independent releases, and the ever-popular The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 1988, Italy, DCP, in Italian with English subtitles, 123 minutes. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the highs and lows that shaped his life come flooding back as Salvatore reconnects with the community he left 30 years earlier. This multi award-winning homage to the love of cinema tells the story of Salvatore, now a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was a projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood.
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