“Ennio,” the documentary celebrating Ennio Morricone’s astonishing range of film scores, opens for a weeklong Chicago run at the Music Box.

Our critic recalls the Ennio Morricone interview in which he talked about his radical music-making with an experimental ensemble known as the Group.

It’s a documentary devoted entirely to a celebration and exhaustive analysis of Morricone’s music — a portrait of the artist as virtuoso soundtrack renegade.

Ennio Morricone - The Thing (theme) by deviantrake on YouTube Among cues that weren't used in the film, but which turned up on the soundtrack album, was one later appropriated by Quentin Tarantino ...

Ennio Morricone and Charlie Daniels debut on Billboard’s Social 50 chart dated July 18 following their July 6 deaths.

Sticking to that script led Ennio Morricone to become one of the most popular composers in film history; diverging from it made him one of the most influential. The two-time Oscar winner, who died ...

Ennio Morricone, an Italian composer whose wildly inventive soundtracks — from the electric guitar, whistle, whip crack and coyote howl of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” to the dramatic ...

The bad news about the Ennio Morricone documentary “Ennio” is its length: 2 1/2 hours. Far too short! Morricone scored hundreds of films, some of which are enduring masterpieces, and his work ...

There’s too much ground to cover for “Ennio” to drill all that deep into the individual facets of Morricone’s innovations, but lip-service is paid to the music he mined from everyday ...

'Ennio,' a new documentary about Ennio Morricone, will tell the composer's life story.

Italian composer Ennio Morricone, whose career in film spanned six decades and hundreds of films has passed away at age 91. Ennio Morricone/YouTube Morricone’s lawyer Giorgio Assumma announced ...

The movie devotes itself to the glories of Morricone's soundtrack music, but it's also about his mischievously self-serious personality.