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

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

When famed composer Ennio Morricone passed away on July 6, 2020, he left behind a body of work that eclipses the idea of “productivity” itself. In addition to composing thousands of hours of ...

The Italian maestro Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) hardly needed more than a handful of those scores for him to gain entrance to the realm of screen theme immortals.

Morricone’s longtime lawyer and friend, Giorgio Assumma, said the Maestro, as he was known, died in a Rome hospital of complications following a recent fall in which he broke a leg. During a ...

Maestro Morricone was an exceedingly modest person, he never bragged on his brilliance and depth. But it all is in his book, Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words, which is a sheer intellectual ...

Best known for his iconic film scores, Morricone’s deep Catholic faith led him to compose a Mass that now stands among his greatest works.

Hollywood’s directors, musicians and composers are bowing to the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at age 91. Filmmakers like Edgar Wright, Asif Kapadia and John Carpenter ...

Ennio Morricone is sitting with his wife in a sun-splashed corner of Jean-Georges restaurant. Passing up the petits fours, he embarks on an animated explanation about interweaving comic and dramati… ...

Watching Clint Eastwood translate Italian film composer Ennio Morricone's acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement Oscar at the Academy Awards in February was a highlight of a frequently drab ...

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.