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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Ennio Morricone died at 91 in 2020, cinema lost one of its greatest craftsmen. For more than half a century, his name ...

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 ...