`Pain and Glory` and `The Farewell` top the year in movies
(WorldNews Entertainment)

`Cinema Paradiso` could have been about me. My dad ran the projectors while I stood on a stool and watched the movies from the booth in Port Angeles, Washington. I was hooked for life. My weekly trek to the theater takes me back to those days. Just for the record, I try to sit where I can pretend I´m the only one in the theater. I will usually choose the first empty row nearest the screen, and sit on the aisle. I´m now the only one in the bijou. Roll the film and don´t disturb me. I get a little sentimental when a year ends and I reflect back at the movies I saw. Once upon a career, I reviewed 200-plus movies a year in Seattle - everything that hit town. Now it´s 104 per year, two per week....