“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 Oscar for ...

The movie devotes itself to Morricone's music, from the pop songs to the spaghetti Westerns to "The Untouchables" and beyond. But it's also about his impishly self-serious personality. The Morricone ...

Last week, the legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone died, leaving behind a remarkably deep catalog of work that spans multiple eras of filmmaking. Like John Williams or Hans Zimmer, he was ...

You could make a strong case that the late Italian master Ennio Morricone is the greatest film-score composer who has ever lived. Morricone started off in 1961, and he scored hundreds of movies before ...

Here, in its authentically quiet and unassuming way, is one of the great and revealing stories about the incomparable music of 78-year-old film composer Ennio Morricone, who is -- without question -- ...

Filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore assesses the career of his late collaborator, the renowned movie composer Ennio Morricone. By John DeFore Of all the filmmakers who owe debts to the great Ennio Morricone, ...

If would be hard to name an artist in any medium who illustrated Flaubert’s famous maxim of creativity (“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original ...