Director Giuseppe Tornatore’s CINEMA PARADISO ('88) nostalgically portrays the magic of cinema through the lens of a young boy who grows up to become a filmmaker. Despite its modest box office success, the film went on to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and remains a cherished film among cinephiles, projectionists, and filmmakers alike. See it tonight as we close out our final evening spotlighting Coming of Age Films this month, it all starts at 8pm ET. | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Bernardo Bertolucci beautifully captured the essence of Pasolini’s cinematic language — a style at once ancient and radical, stripped to its bones and pulsing with immediacy. “Pasolini’s style can be defined as Romanesque, a frontal style that has a kind of primitive essentialism. His tracking shots resemble the first tracking shots in the history of cinema. His close ups resemble the invention of the close-up.” — Bernardo Bertolucci on Mamma Roma (1962), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Pasolini