With its famous medina, the Casbah, and glorious architectural and musical heritage, not to mention monuments to its ...

Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as ...

Tension and Resistance in the Streets of Algiers The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, remains one of the ...

TEHRAN-The cinematheque of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) will show “The Battle of Algiers,” a 1966 Italian-Algerian war film co-written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, on Sunday. The ...

Film composer Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) wrote scores for many great movies (“The Battle of Algiers,” “Days of Heaven,” “Once Upon a Time in America”), and at a certain point, you have to wonder: ...

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 ...

Then Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, Lina Wertmüller’s The Lizards, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Theorem, Marco Bellocchio’s Fists in the Pockets, Mauro Bolognini’s That Splendid November, ...

Merely revisiting Morricone’s epic string of triumphs is a flabbergasting experience, from Sergio Leone’s Westerns – his music from Once Upon a Time in the West seems to become more overwhelming as ...