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.

There are few film composers who have created music as iconic as Ennio Morricone. Some of his most memorable soundtracks were ...

‘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.

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 ...

Ennio Morricone Music Box Films “At first, I thought making music for the cinema was humiliating,” the late film composer Ennio Morricone once said. “By writing, I got my revenge.” ...

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 ...