| The Legend of 1900 Review |
| by Marty Mapes |
| The story is told by Max (Pruitt Taylor Vince), a sad and lonely guy
who's giving up his career as a musician. He tells the story as he sells
his trumpet to the man at the music shop. more |
| The Legend of 1900 Review |
| by Michael Dequina |
| _The_Legend_of_1900_ is, by every definition, a beautiful film: it's
lovely to look at--and perhaps even moreso to listen to; and the acting
is exquisite. Looks may not count for everything when it comes to
movies, but in the case of Giuseppe...more |
| The Legend of 1900 Review |
| by Scott Renshaw |
| THE LEGEND OF 1900
(Fine Line)
Starring: Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Clarence Williams III, Melanie
Thierry, Bill Nunn.
Screenplay: Giuseppe Tornatore, based on the monologue "Novecento" by
Alessandro Baricco.
Producers: Francesco...more |
| The Legend of 1900 Review |
| by Eugene Novikov |
| The Legend of 1900s is the year's most absurd movie, a rambling,
nonsensical piece of seafaring garbage that goes nowhere fast. It stars
thespian extraordinaire Tim Roth, looking wistful as ever, as a guy
named... 1900. You heard right. His name is, in...more |
| The Legend of 1900 Review |
| by Ross Anthony |
| A grand piano accompanied by its carefree pianist (Tim Roth) glide like a
Ouija oracle across a glorious marble-like dance floor aboard the teetering
cruise ship Virginia. It's 1926, the savant at the keyboard is an orphan
raised by the crew whose music...more |
| The Legend of 1900 Review |
| by Mark O'Hara |
| "The Legend of 1900" begins in a music shop in mid-century, viols and and
horns hanging down amid the glorious clutter. Suddenly we are in the boiler
room of a gargantuan steamship, men working their hardest to fill the maws
of the furnaces with...more |
| The Legend of 1900 Review |
| by Athan Bezaitis |
| [filmcritic.com presents a review from guest writer Athan Bezaitis. You
can find the review with full credits at
http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/f9c71c066258f8b78825682d0020b51e?OpenDocument more |
| The Legend of 1900 Review |
| by Steve Rhodes |
| With a pensive tranquility, the normally explosive Tim Roth plays
against type as a character known only as 1900. The unabashedly
sentimental, English-language film THE LEGEND OF 1900 by writer and
director Giuseppe Tornatore (CINEMA PARADISO) is based...more |
| The Legend of 1900 Review |
| by Jon Popick |
| Earlier this year, Brendan Fraser starred in Blast from the Past, a
comical fish-out-of-water story about a man that was forced to grow up
in a bomb shelter because of his father’s knee-jerk reaction to the
Cuban Missile Crisis. While the film was a bit...more |
| The Legend of 1900 Review |
| by David Dalgleish |
| Starring Tim Roth, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bill Nunn, Mélanie Thierry;
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore;
Written by Tornatore & Alessandro Baricco, from a novel by Baricco;
Cinematography by Lajos Koltai more |
