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
Genre: Dramas
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
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
The 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
The 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
Turns 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
In 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
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06/29/02
This director's cut -- which adds 51 minutes -- takes a great film and turns it into a mundane soap opera.
06/28/02
Where 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
I'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
As it turns out, you can go home again.
06/27/02
I don't think most of the people who loved the 1989 Paradiso will prefer this new version. But I do.
06/27/02
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