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Costs include $300 for a Harvard police officer to monitor ticket sales, another $300 for the projectionist and the machine and upwards of $1,000 for the actual film. Usually, the more popular the film, the more the distributor charges...
Stotland failed her junior and senior years of high school but still obtained her General Equivalency Diploma (GED). She worked as a museum guide, an Omniplex projectionist and a free-lance caterer before attending Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania for two years, then coming to Harvard as a junior transfer student...
...younger of them, Shade (Fairuza Balk), narrates the story of a crucial few months in their lives. She has a busy, dreamy mind. She may moon over the romantic fictions shown at a little Hispanic theater and end up falling for the Latino boy who works as its projectionist. But she's also up and doing -- looking for (and eventually finding) her lost dad, arranging a really awful blind date for her mother. Her sister Trudi (Ione Skye) is more troubled and rebellious. She has a "fast" reputation, and a sexual trauma in her past, a doomed love affair...
Cinema Paradiso A little boy in a small Italian town serves as acolyte to the keeper of the flame -- the projectionist in the local theater. With graceful sentiment, director Giuseppe Tornatore evokes the magic by which our first films grasp at memory...
...this alternative religion, Toto will rise from novice (as the projectionist's assistant) to parish priest (he takes over when Alfredo is blinded in a nitrate-film fire) to bishop (he becomes a director). But it is one of the many graces of Cinema Paradiso that it is content merely to observe the analogies between two faiths, not point up the conflict between them. Writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore's manner is gently reflective, not satirical. His largest aim, and greatest success, is to re-create the lost spirit of a vanished movie era: the late 1940s and early...