Before the double feature night starts, he watches the trailer of Stagecoach (1939). Toto not only sneaks into the projection room, but he also visits Cinema Paradiso as a paying customer. Behind hilm, under a Laurel-Hardy still, there is a ripped poster of Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942). Little Toto visits the projection room, where Alfredo recuts films. He becomes angry with the kissing scene and orders Alfredo to cut it. The film that Father Adelfio watches is Jean Renoir’s Les bas-fonds (1936), aka Verso la Vita. Our first encounter with the interior of Cinema Paradiso is when Father Adelfio’s private screening of next week’s film starts, in order to examine possible immoral scenes.Behind him, we can see Italian posters of John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939), aka Ombre Rosse. The film contains an enormous number of other film references in the form of screenings and posters. Giuseppe Tornatore’s sentimental tale of how a young boy’s life was affected by the local cinema and its projectionist. We celebrate the 300 posts of Films in Films with an extensive look into the endless film references from Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988).
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