“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lively, absorbing documentary about the Italian composer whose music is featured in hundreds of movies, from “A Fistful of Dollars” to “Kill Bill.” By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...

“You must always make a nice melody,” Libera Ridolfi told her young son, Ennio. “That’s how you will become famous.” Sticking to that script led Ennio Morricone to become one of the most popular ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...