COMMENTARY: The late composer’s score for The Mission is not only a masterful composition, it is truly sacred music. Ennio Morricone at the Estadio Bicentenario de la Florida in 2013. (photo: ...

It’s hard for me to recall the most vivid moments in “Mission to Mars,” Brian De Palma’s outer-space drama from 2000, without hearing the great music of Ennio Morricone. That probably isn’t how you ...

Hollywood is reeling at the death of composer Ennio Morricone, who died unexpectedly on July 6 at age 91. In the global film community, he’s as revered as any screen composer from Nino Rota and ...

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 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 ...

Giuseppe Tornatore's portrait of the Oscar-winning composer of 'The Hateful Eight,' 'Mission' and 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' will get a special, out-of-competition screening in Venice. By Scott ...

Jeremy has more than 2000 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

“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 ...

Quentin Tarantino had never used an original score for any of his films before “The Hateful Eight,” but it was the late Ennio Morricone who finally made him “break down” and entrust the process to the ...

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 ...