As a young man, The Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter discovered Ennio Morricone’s score for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — and everything changed. The instrumental “Forte (The Strong),” in ...

All you have to do is hear the first 30 seconds of the theme to know what you’re dealing with. Morricone’s avant-garde style was so arresting, it would go on to influence future filmmakers, composers ...

Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t ...

“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 amazing life and career of composer Ennio Morricone is explored in a new documentary, Ennio, which will be in theaters on February 9. Via Rolling Stone: The documentary, which was made by ...

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is a classic 1966 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach, it follows the epic quest of three ...

“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 ...

In 1966, Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood gave the world the greatest standoff in the history of the Western genre, and it's ...

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 ...

Por fin, la reivindicación está al alcance de un compositor ganador del Oscar que buscaba demostrar que era tan capaz de dar vida a ...