Remembering Ennio Morricone on his birthday.

The streaming platform Kanopy is highlighting Giuseppe Tornatore’s epic Morricone documentary, “Ennio” (2021), among its featured offerings for November.

There was something about the then-young filmmaker that struck a chord with the composer when he agreed to write the music for “Cinema Paradiso” in 1988. The movie went on to win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and of course the music became one of Morricone’s most beloved scores. Morricone scored every one of Tornatore’s films thereafter. Whenever he pondered retirement in an interview, he was always careful to mention that he might be tempted back by another Tornatore project. His final film score was for Tornatore’s “Correspondence” in 2016.

I posted some observations on the documentary after watching it in March. You’ll pardon me if my “review” wound up being almost as long as the movie!

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Access to Kanopy is free with your public library card, but you’ll need to sign up if you don’t already have an account..

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