Director: Giuseppe Tornatore. 156 min. Documentary.
- It's true: Ennio Morricone is one of those rare movie music composers, that if you've seen just a few movies he's composed, when the next one comes by, you know it's him (Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri and James Horner are some other stylists with that attribute that come to mind). And this film is a tribute to that grandeur. Following his career through interviews with the recently deceased artist and some other shining stars of film and music (Clint Eastwood, Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, Wong Kar-Wai, Dario Argento, Barry Levinson, Bernardo Bertolucci, Bruce Springsteen, Quincy Jones), in a film directed by none other than Giuseppe Tornatore (whose Cinema Paradiso was graced by the master's heavenly themes), we watch how some of Morricone greatest melodies came to fruition - from the coyote cry of The Good the Bad, and the Ugly, to the thrilling tension of The Untouchables, to the choir melodies of The Mission. And while his "Ecstasy of Gold" is certifiably one of the greatest synchronizations of film and music in cinema history, by the time he was describing "Jill's theme" in Once Upon a Time in America, I was almost teary-eyed. This long documentary is worth your time, even if you think you don't know Morricone's work ... to realize how well you do.
MoGo's rating: 8/10
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