Giusseppe Tornatore Reflects on 'Cinema Paradiso' 25 Years After Its Oscar Win — hollywoodreporter.com

1989: it's not only a Taylor Swift album, but also the year that changed Giuseppe Tornatore's life. That much became clear when I sat down with the 58-year-old Italian filmmaker — who is best known for directing Cinema Paradiso, a semi-autobiographical film about a young cinephile which won the Cannes Film Festival's grand jury prize and the best foreign language film Oscar in that final year of the eighties — last week at a hotel in Beverly Hills.

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