His collaborators reverently called him Maestro! This is even how we now refer to this great name in film music, this great name in 20th century music. We therefore call him Maestro, or even simply by his first name: Ennio. Enniothis is also the title of the new film by Giuseppe Tornatore, the Italian director of Cinema Paradiso followed the immense Ennio Morricone for five years, from 2015 to his death in July 2020. And he met illustrious admirers from Bruce Springsteen to Joan Baez via Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, John Williams or Dario Argento.
This documentary of more than two and a half hours is currently in theaters.
To talk about Ennio Morricone, the man with 253 soundtracks (Once upon a Time in the West ; Assignment ; The clan of the Sicilians; The good, the bad and the ugly…), we welcome the musical columnist and composer Alex Jaffrayand Stéphane Lerouge who directs the collection “ Listen to the movies! at Universal and has published two Ennio Morricone box sets, ie 32 CDs, a colossal work including booklets with unpublished interviews, in particular the ultimate interview with Ennio Morricone.
