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If you lived outside of a major media center, you had to work hard to find the movies Morricone scored. And if you had a Morricone jones, you did the work.
The movie devotes itself to the glories of Morricone's soundtrack music, but it's also about his mischievously self-serious personality.
In “Ennio,” a lively, absorbing documentary about the composer, Morricone discusses his work on “Burn!” and so many other films.
Ennio Morricone, the Italian film composer whose career spanned 50 years, died Monday at the age of 91. And if you’ve ever pretended to shoot someone with your finger, there’s a good chance ...
“Ennio,” the documentary celebrating Ennio Morricone’s astonishing range of film scores, opens for a weeklong Chicago run at the Music Box.
“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.” That comeuppance came in the form of an ...
Owen Gleiberman on the death of Ennio Morricone, one of the most romantic of all film composers, even though he rarely scored a love story.
All Ennio Morricone asked of Quentin Tarantino, after committing to score his new Western, “The Hateful Eight,” was that the director feature his music prominently and give it the space… ...
Ennio Morricone, one of the most beloved movie composers of the 20th century, has died. The legendary Italian artist, who was 91, passed after suffering complications from a recent fall.
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.
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.