Ennio Morricone composed over 500 film scores during his illustrious 70-year career but few demonstrate his brilliance better than the one created for John Carpenter’s The Thing.

“Ennio Morricone composed the magnificent score for my movie The Thing,” Carpenter said in a statement. “Because we weren’t finished editing the movie, Ennio had to score without seeing a ...

Read more: Il Maestro: Ennio Morricone’s 10 best film scores Carpenter explained to IndieWire how The Thing theme came to be, through close collaboration “It was all way too flourishy and ...

Ennio Morricone - The Thing (theme) Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter’s theme for “The Thing.” By Randall Roberts. July 6, 2020 12:28 PM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options.

‘Ennio’ Review: Ennio Morricone, the Maestro of the Movie Soundtrack, Gets the Entrancing Documentary He Deserves Reviewed at Film Forum, Jan. 31, 2024. Running time: 156 MIN.

Perfect Days, The Taste Of Things, Out Of Darkness, The Monk And The Gun, Here, Drift and and an Ennio Morricone documentary by Giusseppe Tornatore.

Watching “Ennio,” you barely learn such essential details about Morricone as the fact that he had four children; that he lived his entire life in Rome; that he was married to the same woman ...

With his substantial documentary “Ennio,” director Giuseppe Tornatore — who worked with Morricone for nearly all his films, including 1988’s “Cinema Paradiso” — turns an overdue ...

Morricone’s father, Mario, was a trumpet player, and soon Ennio was playing it, too. He began composing music as a child and studied it formally at a conservatory in Rome, where one of his ...

The amazing life and career of composer Ennio Morricone is explored in a new documentary, Ennio, which will be in theaters on February 9. Via Rolling Stone: The documentary, which was made by ...