Cinema Paradiso
The lifelong story of a filmmaker and his love affair with the cinema, and all that surrounds it. Salvatore is a precocious young child who cannot be kept away from the town's local cinema. He is drawn to it at every opportunity, despite the protests of his mother, and the loving and feeble attempts of the projectionist to keep him away. He learns a lot about life and love through days spent watching film, and the lessons inform the rest of his life, eventually drawing him back to the town as a much older man, a man who has grown so much since his younger cinema bound days, but who is at the same time so indebted to his past there.
An emotional and enlivening film, the european sensibilities in both plot and filmmaking seem so fresh when compared to even the best films from Hollywood. I hope I watch this film many more times. 9/10