Cinema Paradiso (1988) 

Sat. Apr. 25 

Doors – 7:00 PM  

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM  

Films – 8:00 PM  

Tickets - $10  

2hr 4min | PG | Drama | Italy/France 

Presented in partnership with WRCJ’s “The Soundtrack” to celebrate their 1 year anniversary! 

Post Film Q & A with Haley Taylor 

WRCJ’s Dave Wagner at the Mighty Wurlitzer before the show and at intermission 

Together with WRCJ’s film score focused radio program “The Soundtrack” the Senate Theater invites you to a special screening of Cinema Paradiso! To celebrate the magic of the movies (and The Soundtrack’s one year anniversary) we’re bringing this international art house sensation and its finely tuned romantic score to the big screen. You’ll be swept away by the ecstatic synthesis of moving pictures and moving melody by Italian master Ennio Morricone and his son Andrea Morricone. 

Winner of the Grand Prix du Jury at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and the 1989 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Cinema Paradiso is a poignant, tearjerking, ecstatically life-affirming trip through melancholy, joy, art and longing!  

This coming-of-age classic explores the power of cinema and nostalgia, told in vivid flashback through the eyes of a film director as he recollects the formative events of his childhood. Cinema Paradiso asks how the pull of a home left behind, the residue of youthful yearning for more, and the artist’s drive to create can continuously shape the understanding of oneself. Can we find truth through expression and reflection, through mutable memory, through the metamorphic potential of cinema—its extraordinary synthesis of sound and vision? 

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue