We lost a true cinema legend on Monday. Ennio Morricone wasn’t just a mere film composer, he was the one who gave a massive swath of cinema its mood, its voice, and in a lot of cases, its longevity.

Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning composer of more than 500 film scores, has died at the age of 91. The Italian musician leaves behind an extraordinary body of work that includes collaborations with ...

His Spaghetti Western scores are known by all, yet they form just a small part of Ennio Morricone's vast body of work. Fan Simon presents a curated selection of some lesser-known gems. Some Morricone ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto's management team has shared his "final playlist", curated by the late composer for his own funeral. Shared yesterday via Spotify, the 33-track playlist titled 'Funeral', features ...

Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t such a drawback. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Naples, Italy Thirty ...