Even if you have trouble with the idea of God, says veteran producer David Puttnam in Ennio, Giuseppe Tornatore’s rapturous paean to his late collaborator Ennio Morricone, when you hear his music, …
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Ennio Morricone died last year, aged 91. Tornatore, whose best-known collaboration with the maestro was the Oscar-winning, spent five years assembling archival material and interviewing other directors, musicians and critics about his work. Morricone wrote everything from pop songs to experimental noise music but, of course, is known largely for having scored over 500 films.No one could actually believe how prolific he was.
Morricone was always described as shy. He resisted praise, sloughing off the Tarantino remark by saying that you wouldn’t know for another 200 years whether he rated with Mozart or not. At the same time, he had a strong sense of his own worth. There are Oscars he thought he should have won and isn’t at all shy about saying so.
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