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Fuck. RIP Maestro. Before I could even possibly fathom the breadth of his work, and what he did to expand the lexicon of film music outside of the Hollywood tradition, he was one of the first to make me cry when I was just starting to get into this stuff. He was one of the very very few who was actually capable of touching of the heavens with his music. The kind of touch rarely equalled by even his own colleagues.

Just before his passing Ennio Morricone wrote a touching goodbye... “I, Ennio Morricone, am dead. So I announce it to all the friends who have always been close to me and also to those who are a little far away, whom I greet with great affection. Impossible to name them all. But a special memory is for Peppuccio and Roberta, fraternal friends very present in the last years of our life. There is only one reason that prompts me to greet everyone like this and to have a funeral in private form: I don't want to disturb you. I warmly greet Ines, Laura, Sara, Enzo and Norbert for sharing a large part of my life with me and my family. I want to remember with love my sisters Adriana, Maria and Franca and their loved ones and to let them know how much I loved them. A full intense and profound greeting to my children, Marco, Alessandra, Andrea and Giovanni, my daughter-in-law Monica, and to my grandchildren Francesca, Valentina, Francesco and Luca. I hope they understand how much I loved them. Last but not least (Maria). I renew to you the extraordinary love that has held us together and that I am sorry to abandon. To you the most painful farewell. " Translation from Italian using Google Translate https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/musica/2020/07/06/necrologio-morricone

“Dear Maestro unfortunately we never had the chance to meet and to have a conversation. Today I am going to tell you what I had in my heart but I never had the opportunity to express it to you. I always wanted to tell you when I heard from the very first time your music that I immediately understood your immense talent, your sense of melody and your innate capacity to touch directly with your music the soul of the people. And I have to thank you for that. I am sure that by now you travel to the place where harmony and music were born. And I hope that this makes you very content. Farewell,” - Vangelis http://elsew.com/data/latest.htm

I will close the day with this elephantine listing of Morricone's work - and that's only his film and tv stuff, not counting stage, advertising and classical works. His musical genius is one thing, but genius doesn't come often with such eye-popping productivity. So one thing to remember is that the endless tributes to his Leone work or selected american scores, i. e. The Mission or The Thing point you to but a tiny fraction of what he did and as someone who relentlessly downloaded everything Morricone off Napster in the early 2000's i can attest tho the fact that many on this list that no one here has ever heard are way better or at least on par with his famous works. 1960s Year Title Director Notes 1960 Run with the Devil Mario Camerini Orchestrations only Score composed by Piero Piccioni, Lipstick Damiano Damiani Orchestrations only Score composed by Giovanni Fusco L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni Le Pillole Di Ercole Luciano Salce Rejected score Replaced by Armando Trovajoli 1961 The Fascist First full score The Last Judgment Vittorio De Sica Arrangements and Conducting only Score composed by Alessandro Cicognini, 1962 L'italiano ha 50 anni Francomaria Trapani Orchestrations only Composed by Gino Peguri, Gli Italiani e le vacanze Filippo Walter Ratti N/A I motorizzati Camillo Mastrocinque N/A Crazy Desire Luciano Salce N/A Il Sorpasso Dino Risi Orchestrations only Score composed by Riz Ortolani I due della legione Lucio Fulci Orchestrations only Score composed by Luis Bacalov Eighteen in the Sun Camillo Mastrocinque N/A A Girl...and a Million Luciano Salce N/A 1963 Violenza segreta Giorgio Moser Orchestrations only Score composed by Giovanni Fusco Il Successo Dino Risi N/A Le monachine Luciano Salce N/A El Greco N/A Gunfight at Red Sands Ricardo Blasco Mario Caiano First Western film score I basilischi Lina Wertmüller N/A 1964 Una Nuova fonte di energia Daniele G. Luisi Documentary film Malamondo Paolo Cavara N/A I maniaci Lucio Fulci Composed with Carlo Rustichelli I marziani hanno 12 mani Franco Castellano Giuseppe Moccia N/A In ginocchio da te Ettore Fizzarotti N/A Bullets Don't Argue Mario Caiano N/A A Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score I due evasi da Sing Sing Lucio Fulci N/A Before the Revolution Bernardo Bertolucci N/A ...e la donna creò l'uomo [it] Camillo Mastrocinque N/A 1965 A Pistol for Ringo Duccio Tessari N/A Nightmare Castle Mario Caiano First horror film score Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary Sergio Grieco Title song only Score composed by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Highest Pressure Enzo Trapani Composed with Luis Enriquez Bacalov Slalom Luciano Salce N/A Menage all'italiana Franco Indovina N/A Fists in the Pocket Marco Bellocchio N/A Thrilling Carlo Lizzani Gianni Luigi Polidori Ettore Scola Composed with Bruno Nicolai Non son degno di te Ettore Fizzarotti N/A Se non avessi più te N/A Idoli controluce Enzo Battaglia N/A For a Few Dollars More Sergio Leone N/A The Return of Ringo Duccio Tessari N/A 1966 The Bible: In the Beginning John Huston First American film Uncredited; Composed with Toshiro Mayuzumi Seven Guns for the MacGregors Franco Giraldi N/A Wake Up and Die Carlo Lizzani N/A Agent 505: Death Trap in Beirut Manfred R. Köhler Composed with Bruno Nicolai The Hawks and the Sparrows Pier Paolo Pasolini Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo Composed with Pontecorvo The Hills Run Red Carlo Lizzani N/A Un uomo a metà Vittorio De Seta N/A How I Learned to Love Women Luciano Salce N/A For a Few Extra Dollars Giorgio Ferroni Composed with Gianni Ferrio Florence: Days of Destruction Franco Zeffirelli Documentary film Navajo Joe Sergio Corbucci N/A The Big Gundown Sergio Sollima N/A The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sergio Leone N/A 1967 Il giardino delle delizie Silvano Agosti N/A Dalle Ardenne all'inferno / Dirty Heroes Alberto de Martino Composed with Bruno Nicolai The Rover Terence Young N/A The Witches Luchino Visconti Mauro Bolognini Pier Paolo Pasolini Franco Rossi Vittorio De Sica Composed with Piero Piccioni The Hellbenders Sergio Corbucci N/A China is Near Marco Bellocchio N/A O.K. Connery Alberto De Martino Composed with Bruno Nicolai Matchless Alberto Lattuada N/A Composed with Gino Marinuzzi Jr. & Piero Piccioni Grand Slam Giuliano Montaldo N/A The Girl and the General Pasquale Festa Campanile N/A Arabella Mauro Bolognini N/A Face to Face Sergio Sollima N/A Her Harem Marco Ferreri N/A 1968 Danger: Diabolik Mario Bava N/A Tepepa Giulio Petroni N/A The Mercenary Sergio Corbucci Composed with Bruno Nicolai Eat-it Francesco Casaretti N/A Come Play with Me Salvatore Samperi N/A A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof Giulio Petroni N/A Ecce Homo Bruno Gaburro N/A Run, Man, Run Sergio Sollima Composed with Bruno Nicolai Escalation Roberto Faenza N/A Death Rides a Horse Giulio Petroni N/A Guns for San Sebastian Henri Verneuil Composed with Laurie Johnson Comandamenti per un gangster Alfio Catabiano N/A Theorem Pier Paolo Pasolini N/A Partner Bernardo Bertolucci N/A Roma come Chicago Alberto De Martino Composed with Bruno Nicolai Machine Gun McCain Giuliano Montaldo N/A Once Upon a Time in the West Sergio Leone Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score The Great Silence Sergio Corbucci N/A Alibi Vittorio Gassman Adolfo Celi Luciano Lucignani N/A Galileo Liliana Cavani N/A The Lady of Monza Eriprando Visconti N/A A Fine Pair Francesco Maselli N/A A Quiet Place in the Country Elio Petri N/A 1969 Cuore di mamma Salvatore Samperi N/A Listen, Let's Make Love Vittorio Caprioli N/A H2S Roberto Faenza N/A The Fifth Day of Peace Giuliano Montaldo N/A Fräulein Doktor Alberto Lattuada N/A The Invisible Woman Paolo Spinola N/A L'assoluto naturale Mauro Bolognini N/A La stagione dei sensi Massimo Franciosa N/A The Sicilian Clan Henri Verneuil N/A Burn! Gillo Pontecorvo N/A Sai cosa faceva Stalin alle donne? Maurizio Liverani N/A Senza sapere niente di lei Luigi Comencini N/A Metti una sera a cena Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score Brief Season Renato Castellani N/A Vergogna, schifosi Mauro Severino N/A That Splendid November Mauro Bolognini N/A The Five Man Army Italo Zingarelli N/A 1970s[edit] Year Title Director Notes 1970 Violent City Sergio Sollima N/A The Voyeur Franco Indovina N/A Hornets' Nest Phil Karlson N/A I cannibali Liliana Cavani N/A The Red Tent Mikhail Kalatozov Composed with Aleksandr Zatsepin Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Elio Petri N/A La califfa Alberto Bevilacqua N/A The Most Beautiful Wife Damiano Damiani N/A The Bird with the Crystal Plumage Dario Argento First collaboration with Argento Metello Mauro Bolognini Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score When Women Had Tails Pasquale Festa Campanile N/A Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It Salvatore Samperi N/A Compañeros Sergio Corbucci N/A Two Mules for Sister Sara Don Siegel N/A 1971 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Giuseppe Patroni Griffi N/A 1870 Alfredo Giannetti N/A Winged Devils Duccio Tessari N/A Duck, You Sucker! Sergio Leone N/A Cold Eyes of Fear Enzo G. Castellari N/A The Decameron Pier Paolo Pasolini N/A Tre nel mille Franco Indovina N/A The Cat o' Nine Tails Dario Argento N/A Incontro Piero Schivazappa N/A The Working Class Goes to Heaven Elio Petri N/A The Burglars Henri Verneuil N/A Short Night of Glass Dolls Aldo Lado N/A Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion Luciano Ercoli N/A The Case is Closed, Forget It Damiano Damiani N/A Maddalena Jerzy Kawalerowicz Features "Chi Mai" Oceano Folco Quilici Documentary film A Lizard in a Woman's Skin Lucio Fulci N/A Four Flies on Grey Velvet Dario Argento N/A Without Apparent Motive Philippe Labro N/A Sacco & Vanzetti Giuliano Montaldo Composed with Joan Baez Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score Veruschka: Poetry of a Woman Franco Rubartelli N/A 1972 Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio? Flavio Mogherini N/A What Am I Doing in the Middle of a Revolution? Sergio Corbucci N/A Who Saw Her Die? Aldo Lado N/A What Have You Done to Solange? Massimo Dallamano N/A D'amore si muore Carlo Carunchio N/A Fiorina la vacca Vittorio De Sisti N/A The Fifth Cord Luigi Bazzoni N/A I figli chiedono perché Nino Zanchin N/A Devil in the Brain Sergio Sollima N/A The Master and Margaret Aleksandar Petrović N/A Chronicles of a Homicide Mauro Bolognini N/A The Canterbury Tales Pier Paolo Pasolini N/A Sonny and Jed Sergio Corbucci N/A Bluebeard Edward Dmytryk N/A Black Belly of the Tarantula Paolo Cavara N/A Plot Yves Boisset N/A Life is Tough, Eh Providence? Giulio Petroni N/A L'ultimo uomo di Sara Maria Virginia Onorato N/A La cosa buffa Aldo Lado N/A My Dear Killer Tonino Valerii N/A When Women Lost Their Tales Pasquale Festa Campanile Composed with Bruno Nicolai This Kind of Love Alberto Bevilacqua N/A The Sicilian Checkmate Florestano Vancini N/A 1973 Property is No Longer a Theft Elio Petri N/A Here We Go Again, Eh Providence? Alberto De Martino Composed with Bruno Nicolai Crescete e moltiplicatevi Giulio Petroni N/A Giordano Bruno Giuliano Montaldo N/A My Name Is Nobody Tonino Valerii N/A Night Flight from Moscow Henri Verneuil N/A Libera, My Love Mauro Bolognini N/A Massacre in Rome George P. Cosmatos N/A Revolver Sergio Sollima N/A Woman Buried Alive Aldo Lado N/A The Master Touch Michele Lupo N/A 1974 Allonsanfàn Paolo Taviani Vittorio Taviani N/A The Murri Affair Mauro Bolognini N/A Arabian Nights Pier Paolo Pasolini N/A Around the World with Peynet's Lovers Cesare Perfetto Composed with Alessandro Alessandroni The Devil Is a Woman Damiano Damiani N/A La cugina Aldo Lado N/A Weak Spot Peter Fleischmann N/A The Secret Robert Enrico N/A Le trio infernal Francis Girod N/A Autopsy Armando Crispino N/A Almost Human Umberto Lenzi N/A Last Days of Mussolini Carlo Lizzani N/A Spasmo Umberto Lenzi N/A 1975 Eye of the Cat Alberto Bevilacqua Composed with Clément Janequin The Divine Nymph Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Composed with Cesare Andrea Bixio The Flower in His Mouth Luigi Zampa N/A Lips of Lurid Blue Giulio Petroni N/A The Sunday Woman Luigi Comencini N/A The Antichrist Alberto De Martino Composed with Bruno Nicolai Léonor Juan Luis Buñuel N/A Last Stop on the Night Train Aldo Lado N/A Fear Over the City Henri Verneuil N/A Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini N/A Todo modo Elio Petri N/A A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe Damiano Damiani N/A The "Human" Factor Edward Dmytryk N/A 1976 End of the Game Maximilian Schell N/A The Desert of the Tartars Valerio Zurlini N/A And Agnes Chose to Die Giuliano Montaldo N/A The Inheritance Mauro Bolognini N/A 1900 Bernardo Bertolucci N/A Down the Ancient Staircase Mauro Bolognini N/A Rene the Cane Francis Girod N/A San Babila-8 P.M. Carlo Lizzani N/A A Sold Life Aldo Florio N/A 1977 Hitch-Hike Pasquale Festa Campanile N/A The Cat Luigi Comencini N/A Il mostro Luigi Zampa N/A Il prefetto di ferro Pasquale Squitieri N/A Stato interessante Sergio Nasca N/A Orca Michael Anderson N/A Exorcist II: The Heretic John Boorman N/A 1978 Corleone Pasquale Squitieri N/A Stay As You Are Alberto Lattuada N/A Where Are You Going on Holiday? Mauro Bolognini Segment: "Sarò tutta per te" Holocaust 2000 Alberto De Martino N/A L'immoralità Massimo Pirri N/A One, Two, Two : 122, rue de Provence Christian Gion N/A Days of Heaven Terrence Malick Composed with Leo Kottke BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score La Cage aux Folles Édouard Molinaro N/A 1979 Lovers and Liars Mario Monicelli N/A Dedicato al Mare Egeo Masuo Ikeda N/A Bloodline Terence Young N/A I as in Icarus Henri Verneuil Nominated - César Award for Best Original Music A Dangerous Toy Giuliano Montaldo N/A La Luna Bernardo Bertolucci N/A Buone notizie Elio Petri N/A The Humanoid Aldo Lado N/A The Meadow Paolo Taviani Vittorio Taviani N/A Ogro Gillo Pontecorvo N/A 1980s[edit] Year Title Director Notes 1980 The Blue-Eyed Bandit Alfredo Giannetti N/A Il ladrone Pasquale Festa Campanile N/A La Cage aux Folles II Edouard Molinaro N/A Si salvi chi vuole Roberto Faenza N/A The Island Michael Ritchie N/A Fun is Beautiful Carlo Verdone N/A Men or Not Men Valentino Orsini N/A Windows Gordon Willis N/A 1981 Bianco, rosso e Verdone Carlo Verdone Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score Butterfly Matt Cimber Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song Nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score Espion, lève-toi Yves Boisset N/A The Lady Banker Francis Girod N/A La disubbidienza Aldo Lado N/A Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man Bernardo Bertolucci N/A The Lady of the Camellias Mauro Bolognini Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score The Professional Georges Lautner Featured "Chi Mai" from "Maddalena" Nominated - César Award for Best Original Music Buddy Goes West Michele Lupo N/A So Fine Andrew Bergman N/A White Dog Samuel Fuller N/A 1982 Copkiller Roberto Faenza N/A A Time to Die Matt Cimber Composed with Robert O. Ragland Blood Link Alberto De Martino N/A The Ruffian José Giovanni N/A Nana Dan Wolman N/A The Thing John Carpenter Nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score 1983 The Key Tinto Brass N/A Hundra Matt Cimber N/A Treasure of the Four Crowns Ferdinando Baldi N/A Le Marginal Jacques Deray N/A Thieves After Dark Samuel Fuller N/A Sahara Andrew V. McLaglen N/A 1984 Once Upon a Time in America Sergio Leone BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score La Cage aux Folles III: The Wedding Georges Lautner 1985 The Trap Giuseppe Patroni Griffi N/A The Repenter Pasquale Squitieri N/A Red Sonja Richard Fleischer N/A 1986 The Venetian Woman Mauro Bolognini N/A The Mission Roland Joffé BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score 1987 Control Giuliano Montaldo N/A Farewell Moscow Mauro Bolognini N/A The Gold Rimmed Glasses Giuliano Montaldo David di Donatello for Best Score Rampage William Friedkin N/A Quartiere Silvano Agosti N/A The Untouchables Brian De Palma BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score 1988 A Time of Destiny Gregory Nava N/A Frantic Roman Polanski N/A Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore Composed with Andrea Morricone BAFTA Award for Best Film Music David di Donatello for Best Score Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score 1989 Time to Kill Giuliano Montaldo N/A Casualties of War Brian De Palma Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Fat Man and Little Boy Roland Joffé N/A 1990s[edit] Year Title Director Notes 1990 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Pedro Almodóvar Nominated - Goya Award for Best Original Score The Palermo Connection Francesco Rosi N/A Hamlet Franco Zeffirelli N/A The Bachelor Roberto Faenza Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score The Big Man David Leland N/A Everbody's Fine Giuseppe Tornatore David di Donatello for Best Score State of Grace Phil Joanou N/A Tre colonne in cronaca Carlo Vanzina N/A 1991 Bugsy Barry Levinson Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Especially on Sunday Marco Tullio Giordana Giuseppe Tornatore Composed with Andrea Morricone Husband and Lovers Mauro Bolognini N/A Money Steven Hilliard Stern N/A 1992 City of Joy Roland Joffé N/A The Long Silence Margarethe von Trotta N/A Lorenzo's Oil George Miller N/A 1993 In the Line of Fire Wolfgang Petersen N/A Jonah Who Lived in the Whale Roberto Faenza David di Donatello for Best Score Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score The Escort Ricky Tognazzi Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score 1994 A Pure Formality Giuseppe Tornatore N/A Love Affair Glenn Gordon Caron N/A Disclosure Barry Levinson N/A Wolf Mike Nichols Nominated - Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media 1995 The Star Maker Giuseppe Tornatore Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score Nominated - Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Who Killed Pasolini Marco Tullio Giordana N/A The Night and the Moment Anna Maria Tatò N/A Sostiene Pereira Roberto Faenza N/A 1996 The Stendahl Syndrome Dario Argento N/A La Lupa Gabriele Lavia N/A We Free Kings Sergio Citti N/A The Nymph Lina Wertmüller N/A Strangled Lives Ricky Tognazzi N/A 1997 Cartoni animati Franco Citti Sergio Citti N/A Lolita Adrian Lyne N/A U Turn Oliver Stone N/A 1998 The Legend of 1900 Giuseppe Tornatore Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score The Phantom of the Opera Dario Argento N/A Bulworth Warren Beatty Nominated - Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media 2000s[edit] Year Title Director Notes 2000 Canone Inverso - Making Love Ricky Tognazzi David di Donatello for Best Score Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score Malèna Giuseppe Tornatore Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Score Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Mission to Mars Brian De Palma N/A 2001 Vatel Roland Joffé N/A Aida of the Trees Guido Manuli N/A Un altro mondo è possibile Various Documentary film La ragion pura Silvano Agosti N/A 2002 Senso '45 Tinto Brass N/A Ripley's Game Liliana Cavani N/A Carlo Giuliani, Boy Francesca Comencini Documentary film 2003 The End of a Mystery Miguel Hermoso N/A Instructing the Heart Giovanni Morricone Composed with Andrea Morricone Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score 2004 72 Meters Vladimir Khotinenko N/A Guardians of the Clouds Luciano Odorisio N/A 2005 Fateless Lajos Koltai N/A E ridendo l'uccise Florestano Vancini N/A 2006 The Unknown Woman Giuseppe Tornatore David di Donatello for Best Score Libertas Veljko Bulajic N/A A Crime Manuel Pradal N/A 2008 The Demons of St. Petersberg Giuliano Montaldo Nominated - Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score 2009 Baaria Giuseppe Tornatore David di Donatello for Best Score 2010s[edit] Year Title Director Notes 2011 Love Story Florian Habicht N/A 2013 The Best Offer Giuseppe Tornatore David di Donatello for Best Score Silver Ribbon Award for Best Score 2015 Come What May Christian Carion Nominated - César Award for Best Original Music Il Sole è buio Giuseppe Papasso Documentary film Composed with Paolo Vivaldi The Hateful Eight Quentin Tarantino Academy Award for Best Original Score ASCAP Award for Best Film Score BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score Nominated - Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media Nominated - Saturn Award for Best Music 2016 The Correspondence Giuseppe Tornatore Nominated - David di Donatello for Best Score Television films and series[edit] 1960s[edit] Year Title Notes 1960 Il Lieto Fine Television film Gente che va e gente che viene 1961 Enrico '61 Documentary special Alla scoperta dell'America 1963-64 Smash Theme music & 10 episodes 1970s[edit] Year Title Notes 1970-71 The Virginian Theme music; Season 9 1973 Nessuno deve sapere Theme music & 6 episodes 1974 Moses the Lawgiver Miniseries 1975-77 Space: 1999 Italian-language version Theme music & 48 episodes 1976 Drammi gotici Television film 1977 Forza Italia! Documentary special 1978 Noi lazzaroni Television film Il prigioniero 1978 FIFA World Cup Theme music Le mani sporche Miniseries 1979 Orient-Express Dietro il processo Television film 1980s[edit] Year Title Notes 1981 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George Theme music & 9 episodes 1982 Marco Polo Miniseries 1983 The Scarlet and the Black Television film 1985 Via Mala Miniseries 1985-95 La Piovra Theme music & 36 episodes 7 d'Or for Best Music 1986 C.A.T. Squad Television film 1987 The Secret of the Sahara Miniseries The Betrothed Theme music & 7 episodes 1988 Gli indifferenti Miniseries 1989 The Endless Game Gli angeli del potere Television film 1990s[edit] Year Title Notes 1990 Cacciatore di nave Television film Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair 1991 Il principe del deserto Miniseries Piazza di Spagna Theme music & 5 episodes 1992 Una storia italiana Miniseries 1994 Missus Genesis: The Creation and the Flood Television film Jacob 1995 Il barone Miniseries 1996 Samson and Delilah Television film 1997 Solomon In fondo al cuore Miniseries Nostromo Il quarto re Television film 1998 La casa bruciata Ultimo In fondo al cuore 1999 Ultimo 2 - La sfida Tower of the Firstborn I guardiani del cielo Miniseries Nana 2000s[edit] Year Title Notes 2000 Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth Miniseries 2001 La Piovra 10 Television film 2002 Perlasca, un Eroe Italiano Miniseries Un difetto di famiglia Il diario di Matilde Manzoni 2002-03 Musashi Theme music & 49 episodes 2003 The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII Miniseries Maria Goretti Television film ICS L'amore ti da' un nome Charlie Chaplin – Les années suisses Documentary special 2004 Ultimo 3 - L'infiltrato Television film 2005 Il Cuore nel Pozzo Miniseries Karol: A Man Who Became Pope Cefalonia Television film Lucia Bartali: The Iron Man Miniseries 2006 Karol: The Pope, The Man La provinciale Giovanni Falcone - L'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra 2007 L'Ultimo dei corleonesi Television film 2008 Résolution 819[19] 2009 Pane e libertà Miniseries Quatraro Mysteriet Theme music & 8 episodes 2010 Mi Ricordo Anna Frank Television film Filumena Marturano 2011 Napoli milionaria Napoli milionaria Questi fantasmi 2011-13 Come un delfino - La serie Theme music & 6 episodes 2012-13 L'isola Theme music & 12 episodes 2012 Sabato, domenica e lunedì Television film Paolo Borsellino: The 57 Days 2013 Ultimo 4 - L'occhio del falco Miniseries

Catch Me If You Can (John Williams)

I've been distraught for most of the day. Cannot listen to any of his music without feeling overwhelmed at the moment. I jotted down a personal homage on The Legacy of John Williams website, I hope it makes some sense: https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2020/07/06/rip-ennio-morricone/ Btw, here in Italy is basically a mourning day. He was loved by literally everyone.

RIP signore, maestro e grazie

Assembled this quick comparison/theme breakdown doc yesterday morning. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HlQHpJ9HxlGORQ_Kk614GH0dLcaFoyKrj0P_81v6VsY/edit?usp=sharing Corrections or suggestions are naturally appreciated if anyone has any!

Deeply saddening news. More about his genius... A certain quote from Morricone has fascinated me ever since I came across it. In a course by Italian musicologist Sergio Miceli in which Morricone took part (what a dream that surely was!), talking about themes, Morricone said: It is truly a genius who on the one hand had such low regard for themes yet on the other wrote themes so deeply moving that they betray a deep understanding of their inner workings.

Cinema Serenade, for instance.

We lost the man, but his legacy will live on longer than any of us.

I don’t understand the general dislike for Whedon’s Justice League? I get that Snyder had a new and “gritty” take on Superman and Batman, but very few people actually enjoyed those movies. I think Justice Leage was more of a reboot than a sequel. Yes, it follows the story set up in BvS, but it doesn’t really line up. The tone is different. The characters do not act the same. Batman is not a moron. Supes is not a stoic downer. Bringing in Elfman was a creative decision - among many others - to try to reboot the DCEU from the dark and boring movies that came before. And I think it was the right move. Far more classy than JXL. All in all, I think it worked. JL is as good as any Marvel movie, whereas Man of Steel and BVS is not. JL is not a perfect movie. But I think it’s a fun ride, it is more faithful to the core of the comics, and it’s not full of nonsensical moments like pa’ Kent stepping in to a tornado, pa’ Kent telling Clark that ‘maybe he shouldn’t save people’, Supes murdering Zod, hipster Lex, Batman’s logic on why Superman is ‘evil’ the ‘Supes killed those people in the desert’- conspiracy, the ’Martha’ moment, and on and on and on... My God! Why do people want Snyder to complete his “vision” when it was utterly crap???

R.I.P. I was just listening to his music. Easily the greatest living film composer (when he was alive). Hans Zimmer chimes in and there will be more words from notable people coming:

His villains include a plant girl, a guy in a spacesuit with a freeze ray, a fat gangster with a monocle called The Penguin, a lady in a catsuit and a guy who had acid splashed on half his face who wears bi-colored suits and flips a coin. Just because you can make this all tragic and "realistic" doesn't mean you should. You meet somewhere halfway and it tends to work.

There are those of us who don't go to see comic book movies to "consume tragedy." They can have those elements, but it's such a drag to see a miserable flick inspired by these comic books that has all the fun sucked out of it. Sure, they can also skew too far into the other direction, like seeing Batman fight aliens in Zack Snyder's terrible vision. What a bunch of shit. Joker is reminiscent of the Nolan movies in that it feels embarrassed by its source material. Many agree that it was so disconnected from the source that the various references to Batman lore felt out of place, and they did. We're not going to see a Batman flick for political social commentary or to feel more intellectual.

Look at them, our two Granddads!

RIP.

According to the original post, this was supposed to be the following: And I'm saying it's not "a score in the style of John Williams", it's a score taking existing themes, statements and moments from existing John Williams scores, and gluing them together in an attempt to fit a picture. Those are two very different things. It's like the adapting of Williams' Superman The Movie into the sequels, only less effective. I'm not criticizing it for not being John Williams, I'm saying don't say things like this because you're doomed to fail. It doesn't "emulate Williams' writing style" very well, and it doesn't "musically unify" it to the first three, either. The opening titles cue alone is a good example, because it's so busy stitching Williams themes together, that it sounds like an arrangement of blocks rather than a piece of music. There's no rhythm to it, so it fails to grab you, which opening titles should. It's also not good storytelling because the scene relies on the mystery of where we are and what's about to happen, and the re-score screams Voldemort all over the place.

This is truly sad. My prayers go out to his family. I was not familiar with his body of work, but I remember The Mission. A powerful film with a powerful score. R.I.P. Maestro Ennio Morricone. May you be welcomed into Heaven with this:

@bruce marshall , knock it off. If you don't have something positive to contribute to a thread, just don't post in it. Thanks!

Morricone arranged some songs on Aznavour's two first Italian albums. Ennio Morricone, Charles Aznavour and Sergio Leone.

It's called the new normal.

Are you implying that they're not the same person?

Are you implying that John Williams isn't related to John Williams the guitarist?

I recommend to start with the dollar trilogy.

From what I recall, it was Jonze’s decision, not the studio’s. He called Burwell beforehand to let him know he wasn’t going to use traditional score, to maintain the relationship, but ultimately asked him to write a little bit of music for the film.

Holko, that's great! Have you done similar theme breakdowns for any other scores?

Actually his was one of the first film scores I really took to and wanted to have (I was maybe 5 or 6), I remember recording one variation of the main theme on my flipphone for a ringtone. And I still love it.

Interesting!

john Williams wrote my childhood, but Ennio morricone wrote my heart. This has been my favorite melody of all time since I was 8 years old. I’m so sad today

Thanks for posting Holko, this is great.

Cinema Concerto. Listening to my first Morricone album. https://open.spotify.com/album/1uZZs1GClyOxKtVmbyvdb9?si=RkMAaTAXQ0CMTEJGzSIvRw Karol

Many people hate the film due to the fact that the mainstream audience sees it as THE edgy arthouse cinema masterpiece which it absolutely isn't. If you go that way to argue about the film you start headbutting with everyone. The reality, however, is that it's a decent film that thankfully achieved to take a broad audience out of their comfort zone. But it's not the ingenius social commentary everyone is talking about.

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IMAGES would have been a much cooler choice. THE LONG GOODBYE is also cool, but more playful. IMAGES is the proper abrasive, avantgarde score that heady filmmakers should choose. And no, Alberto Iglesias has no relation to Julio and Enrique, AFAIK. It's a fairly common Spanish name.

Lost a beat when I came across this. An absolute titan of a composer had left us. Awful.

Very sad news. End of an era, really. Like Thor, I'm not a fan of everything he created, but he created so much beautiful music that he will never be forgotten. I had the pleasure of seeing him three times at the concert and interviewing him one time. Below is a memoir article about Maestro Morricone I wrote in Polish. https://kultura.onet.pl/muzyka/wywiady-i-artykuly/ennio-morricone-nie-zyje-maestro-kina-kim-byl-kompozytor-biografia/m46lsks

Well, he should have hired someone entirely different for this, to rewrite it, because Junkie sucks. Addendum: no, I haven't heard the score yet, and no, I don't give a crap.

I feel like this proves more the point that Williams' original themes didn't fit in, the more the series went on, than it does the opposite. I'm certain John Williams could have made a lot of them work, but, well, this isn't John Williams. I feel like the project concentrated way too much on forcing one or several designated John Williams themes into any given scene, that don't sit comfortably. There's so much more to achieving a John Williams type score than pinching his themes and arranging them in ways to fit a picture. I'd be totally taken out of the picture if I heard some of the choices you made. A good part of it also doesn't flow very well. It's like you were so busy making the arrangements work that you neglected if it works as a film score. I mean, this is rather harsh for what's essentially a work of passion, I just want to add my feelings.

I’m always down for more Joe Kraemer.

I'm amazing Lucas didn't get JEJ to redub that line accordingly - retroactively dovetrailing ANH into the prequals.

Joker What the fuck? Terrible movie masquerading as an arthouse flick to make geeks feel smart, acknowledged and validated. Not one fun moment whatsoever, just a bleak, oppressive trek into realistic and relatable and dark and disturbing. How the hell did this turd make so much money?!

"The polarity of good and evil still remains, with the resonance of myth . Myth is what happens before history, or is the author of history, and it teaches us how to think and we all respond to a common mythology, to find similar stories in Chinese mythology, for example, and African mythology. And this common thread permeates the films" "Reading is enormously important, for inspiration and creation of music. There is more music to be found in poetry and in the quiet contemplation of nature, than in studying music itself." "Whatever we write, in prose or poetry, there is some individual identity that goes with the work; it's inescapable. We're still at the core what we have always been. Everything we do reflects our character, background, training, and what we write manifests these things." This is an incredible interview!!!

jurassicjello · At Home With Gustavo Dudamel And John Williams

So she's got nothing against JW. What a compliment!

The statement by Morricone has class and grace as well, and is a little more personal: https://www.fpa.es/en/princess-of-asturias-awards/laureates/2020-ennio-morricone-and-john-williams.html?texto=declaracion&especifica=0 "solitude", work "ethic", "constant dedication" are indeed also words that we have seen applied to Williams.

Gratitude from Williams. As always with class and grace.

Shorter than any of The Hobbit movies.

Williams mother is 93 and is still alive,and there is no father,he was born from the Midichlorians. K.M.