Janelle has an extensive career as a writer, with over a decade of freelance experience, especially when it comes to pop culture. Although her first love was music, she also enjoys digging into ...

“At first, I thought making music for the cinema was humiliating,” the late film composer Ennio Morricone once said. “By writing, I got my revenge.” That comeuppance came in the form of an Oscar for ...

The movie devotes itself to Morricone's music, from the pop songs to the spaghetti Westerns to "The Untouchables" and beyond. But it's also about his impishly self-serious personality. The Morricone ...

If you’ve watched a handful of Westerns and/or a decent number of movies produced in Italy before, there’s a good chance you’ve run into an Ennio Morricone score or two in your time. As far as ...

"Cinema Paradiso" director Giuseppe Tornatore pays tribute to his friend and collaborator with a star-studded and compelling look at his musical genius. I suppose there’s a more interesting film to be ...

The maestro was a man of routine. Besides not talking much about his work, which consisted of some of the most memorable film scores in movie history, he was a quiet man of prayer. Every morning at ...

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 ...

When "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly" premiered in 1967 in the U.S., the critics were not impressed. The New York Times called it, quote, "the most expensive, pious and repellent movie in the history ...

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 ...

Italian cinema is in the spotlight at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles where the screening series “Ennio Morricone: Essential Scores from a Movie Maestro,” programmed in partnership with Cinecittà, ...