The darkly atmospheric ‘Partenope’ reveals another side to the late composer, best known for his melodious film scores ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The bad news about the Ennio Morricone documentary “Ennio” is its length: 2 1/2 hours. Far too short! Morricone scored hundreds of films, some of which are enduring masterpieces, and his work for ...

At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was as capable of breathing life ...

If a movie wants to have music (and most movies do), then there are two main options. A film can have a score, which is specifically composed for the work it’s attached to – see Ennio Morricone with ...

As a boy, Ennio Morricone dreamed of becoming a doctor, though as anyone who's heard the whistling Western themes that are his signature can tell you, medicine was not the composer's calling. "The ...