The Legend of 1900 (1998)
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.
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See, Crain (Sam Hazeldine: The Huntsman: Winter’s War , Grimsby ), an old acquaintance of Bishop’s who is Very Bad Indeed, wants to eliminate his rivals, Krill (Femi Elufowoju Jr.: The Legend of 1900 ), Cook (Toby Eddington), and Adams (Tommy Lee Jones: Jason Bourne , Hope Springs ).
Much like 1994's "Star Maker" and, to a lesser degree, last year's "The Legend of 1900," "Malèna" is a romantic fable in the "Paradiso" mold, a silky floe so tenderly conceived and expertly executed that it seems inconceivable it should fail.
After the bravura esoterica of such films as "A Pure Formality" and "The Legend of 1900," Giuseppe Tornatore, with "Malena," returns to the wide appeal of his classic "Cinema Paradiso."
Last year's "The Legend of 1900" -- drama about a pensive piano virtuoso who lived his entire life on a luxurious ocean liner -- wasn't as accomplished a film, but it was no less potent in bringing vividly to life its turn-of-the-Century ambiance and demeanor.
The correct answer has to be Giuseppe Tornatore, the man behind "Cinema Paradiso" and "The Legend of 1900."