When I heard that Ennio Morricone had died, at 91, my first thought was that the cinema had lost one of the most romantic of all screen composers. Morricone, who worked with filmmakers from around the ...

Morricone’s Global Legacy: Redefining Film Scores Before Ennio Morricone, film scores were mostly predictable and stayed in the background. This Italian composer changed that. He used electric guitars ...

When composer Ennio Morricone, well into his 80s, lets loose on the “coyote howl” theme he wrote for “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and sings the howling part — in a fully committed a capella attack ...

“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 ...

"Cinema Paradiso" director Giuseppe Tornatore pays tribute to his friend and collaborator with a star-studded and compelling look at his musical genius. I suppose there’s a more interesting film to be ...

Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...

“Ennio” is a virtual love letter of a documentary from Italy’s Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (“Cinema Paradiso”) to his distinguished, Oscar-winning compatriot, the prolific maestro of ...

It’s taken decades, but after composing more than 450 film scores by his count (IMDB clocks him in at more than 500), Ennio Morricone is finally getting his due in Hollywood. Last night, Il maestro, ...

The maestro was a man of routine. Besides not talking much about his work, which consisted of some of the most memorable film scores in movie history, he was a quiet man of prayer. Every morning at ...

"I never thought music would be my destiny." Music Box Films has revealed a brand new US trailer for the documentary film titled Ennio, a biopic doc about the legendary Italian film composer Ennio ...