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The Concert
Why this pick
A warm, sweeping ode to musicians whose long-buried gifts find expression again, balancing comic humanity with a cathartic musical finale.
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MOVIE1998 2h 50m ITA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Shine
Why this pick
Its virtuoso piano performances and emotionally direct storytelling share 1900’s reverence for extraordinary musical talent, though in a more grounded biographical mode.
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The Piano
Why this pick
For the sense that a piano can hold a whole inner world: it is visually lyrical, intensely musical, and centered on expression beyond ordinary speech.
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Once Upon a Time in America
Why this pick
Its nostalgic, non-linear remembrance and operatic emotional scale closely suit Tornatore’s style, turning friendship, loss, and memory into a grand elegy.
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The Music of Chance
Why this pick
A melancholy, fable-like tale of chance and self-invention with a measured, literary rhythm—well suited to 1900’s wistful, enclosed-world atmosphere.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The story is told ''in medias res'' as a series of Flashback (narrative)s. Max Tooney, a musician, enters a secondhand music shop just before closing time, broke and badly in need of money. He has only a C.G. Conn trumpet, which he sells for less than he had hoped. Clearly torn at parting from his prized possession, he asks to play it one last time. The shopkeeper agrees, and as the musician plays, the shopkeeper immediately recognizes the song from a broken Matrix (record production) he found inside a recently acquired secondhand piano. He asks who the piece is by, and Max tells him the story of 1900.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tim Roth
Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Max Tooney
Peter Vaughan
'Pops', the Shopkeeper
Alberto Vazquez
Mexican Stoker
Nigel Fan
Chinese Stoker
Roger Monk
Irish Stoker
Bernard Padden
Boatswain