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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3      General Discussion: Ennio Morricone Film Fest in LA including MAESTRO!     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Aug 21, 2023 - 5:54 PM     By:   Morricone   (Member) Finally an Ennio Morricone Film Festival in LA that goes beyond the cliche. Good to have items like A FIST IN HIS POCKET, ALLONSANFAN, UN BELLISSIMO NOVEMBRE, SACCO AND VANZETTI and above all the Oscar winning INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION included amongst the usual classics like ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, NOVECENTO, BATTLEOF ALGIERS, THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY, CINEMA PARADISO, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE UNTOUCHABLES and many others in a large screen presentation worthy of them. https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/series/ennio-morricone-essential-scores-from-a-movie-maestro And the main reason to come is a rare presentation (it has only been shown once in LA !) of what I consider the very BEST documentary ever made on a film composer ENNIO: MAESTRO and I include that recent magnificent documentary MAX STEINER MAESTRO OF FILM MUSIC and the Herrmann doc and the dozens of other docs I own or have seen over the years. Director Giuseppe Tornatore started this one many years ago when a lot more filmmakers and composers were still alive to relate their experiences with Morricone. But the key is the one on one conversations with Ennio himself as he specifically explains how a theme came to be and what he was trying to do. I can't help but think that Spielberg saw this when he finally decided to do one on Williams, and as much as I anticipate that will be fantastic, I can't imagine it being better than this. Get tickets now to see it at the Academy in a large theater to appreciate the full power of this piece: https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/detail/ennio-018909a0-2eb3-6714-2176-78997d9ffda4    Posted:   Aug 22, 2023 - 12:57 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) What a neat idea! Is it a one-off or will it be an annual thing? Surely, with his vast filmography, a Morricone "film festival" could be ongoing for quite a few years.    Posted:   Aug 22, 2023 - 9:21 AM     By:   knisper.shayan   (Member) wow, this is just great and i hope people are just appreciating this! wishing i would be in L.A. for this!    Posted:   Aug 23, 2023 - 11:09 AM     By:   Morricone   (Member) What a neat idea! Is it a one-off or will it be an annual thing? Surely, with his vast filmography, a Morricone "film festival" could be ongoing for quite a few years. It is a one off but I haven't seen anything like this since 2009 when Ennio Morricone did his New York concerts and the NY Film Forum played 26 of his films (as opposed to the twenty here). But they had the luxury of 4 screens to work with and their screens are miniscule next to the Academy Museum's 2 enormous screens.    Posted:   Aug 25, 2023 - 7:24 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) Well, this is surely the best news I've seen in a month of Sunday matinees! THANK YOU, sir, and yes, I've just ordered my tickets for "Maestro"! (Thanks for making it so easy to do so.)    Posted:   Aug 26, 2023 - 11:53 AM     By:   Morricone   (Member) wow, this is just great and i hope people are just appreciating this! wishing i would be in L.A. for this! Well this tends to be a jaded town AND I have tended to find the US film score fan has been less of a Morricone enthusiast than the rest of the world. This has always been because the brunt of his greatest scores have been for Italian films and we are allergic to subtitles here. I actually took on my FSM name in 2001 when there was even less knowledge of his work. Once they do get to know the full breadth of his work, however, they are hooked. Here is the rundown of what they are playing at the Academy Museum: 10/1 CINEMA PARADISO 10/4 ENNIO; MAESTRO 10/6 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY 10/8 DAYS OF HEAVEN 10/21 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST 10/22 THE UNTOUCHABLES 10/27 BATTLE OF ALGIERS 10/28 I BASILISCHI 10/29 THE HATEFUL 8 11/3 TEOREMA/ A FIST IN HIS POCKET 11/4 UN BELLISSIMO NOVEMBRE 11/4 INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION/ A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY 11/9 SACCO AND VANZETTI 11/10 TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA 11/11 1900 11/16 IL DESERTO DEI TARTARI 11/18 ALLONSANFAN 11/18 THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE 11/25 ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA These are really essential and represents his full range of composition in his 400+ scores.    Posted:   Aug 26, 2023 - 3:01 PM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) wow, this is just great and i hope people are just appreciating this! wishing i would be in L.A. for this! Well this tends to be a jaded town AND I have tended to find the US film score fan has been less of a Morricone enthusiast than the rest of the world. This has always been because the brunt of his greatest scores have been for Italian films and we are allergic to subtitles here. I actually took on my FSM name in 2001 when there was even less knowledge of his work. Once they do get to know the full breadth of his work, however, they are hooked. Here is the rundown of what they are playing at the Academy Museum: 10/1 CINEMA PARADISO 10/4 ENNIO; MAESTRO 10/6 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY 10/8 DAYS OF HEAVEN 10/21 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST 10/22 THE UNTOUCHABLES 10/27 BATTLE OF ALGIERS 10/28 I BASILISCHI 10/29 THE HATEFUL 8 11/3 TEOREMA/ A FIST IN HIS POCKET 11/4 UN BELLISSIMO NOVEMBRE 11/4 INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION/ A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY 11/9 SACCO AND VANZETTI 11/10 TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA 11/11 1900 11/16 IL DESERTO DEI TARTARI 11/18 ALLONSANFAN 11/18 THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE 11/25 ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA These are really essential and represents his full range of composition in his 400+ scores. What a great double bill on 3rd November - my favourite Pasolini film and Marco Bellocchio’s stunning debut. Two disfunctional middle class families under attack from outside and within; I can see why they’re grouped together.    Posted:   Aug 29, 2023 - 8:18 PM     By:   Morricone   (Member) wow, this is just great and i hope people are just appreciating this! wishing i would be in L.A. for this! Well this tends to be a jaded town AND I have tended to find the US film score fan has been less of a Morricone enthusiast than the rest of the world. This has always been because the brunt of his greatest scores have been for Italian films and we are allergic to subtitles here. I actually took on my FSM name in 2001 when there was even less knowledge of his work. Once they do get to know the full breadth of his work, however, they are hooked. Here is the rundown of what they are playing at the Academy Museum: 10/1 CINEMA PARADISO 10/4 ENNIO; MAESTRO 10/6 THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY 10/8 DAYS OF HEAVEN 10/21 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST 10/22 THE UNTOUCHABLES 10/27 BATTLE OF ALGIERS 10/28 I BASILISCHI 10/29 THE HATEFUL 8 11/3 TEOREMA/ A FIST IN HIS POCKET 11/4 UN BELLISSIMO NOVEMBRE 11/4 INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION/ A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY 11/9 SACCO AND VANZETTI 11/10 TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA 11/11 1900 11/16 IL DESERTO DEI TARTARI 11/18 ALLONSANFAN 11/18 THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE 11/25 ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA These are really essential and represents his full range of composition in his 400+ scores. What a great double bill on 3rd November - my favourite Pasolini film and Marco Bellocchio’s stunning debut. Two disfunctional middle class families under attack from outside and within; I can see why they’re grouped together. Yes, plus it was the first score Morricone did for each of them.    Posted:   Sep 2, 2023 - 2:03 PM     By:   Morricone   (Member) Well, this is surely the best news I've seen in a month of Sunday matinees! THANK YOU, sir, and yes, I've just ordered my tickets for "Maestro"! (Thanks for making it so easy to do so.) Great, perhaps we can get together a little theater party beforehand. The Academy Museum has an interesting but a bit pricey restaurant called FANNY named after Fanny Brice.    Posted:   Sep 2, 2023 - 5:31 PM     By:   RonBurbella   (Member) READING THE ACADEMY ANNOUNCEMENT When I (with eyes wide) read the month-long schedule of Morricone-scored films scheduled to be screened this month at the Academy, I was blissfully unaware of the 2021 Italian feature film (156 minutes!) ENNIO (directed by Giuseppe Tornatore). Wow! I wondered...is it on video? MY RESEARCH I looked around and was happy to find ENNIO! (in a white box) on video at Amazon. It's a 2-disc set with a nice 20-page booklet full of photos (released Jan 13, 2022). However, the 6 pages of text is in ITALIAN only, so I guess the target audience was Italy/EEU. The dialogue is in ITALIAN only. As far as I can determine, there is no option for English subtitles, only for Italian subtitles (which helps a little). Although I have an Italian-sounding name, I'm Ukrainian. So I had no family upbringing exposure to the Italian language to help here. There is also ENNIO: EL MAESTRO (in black box) for sale, which I'm presuming is the same. If anyone has the second version, please feel free to comment if my presumptions are incorrect. MY SOLUTION (so far) My iPhone Google Translate app has a spoken/microphone feature, which works. Rather than go into neck spasms by incessantly looking up and down, I put my cell phone alongside the video screen, glanced slightly at one or the other, and this worked. I plan to hit the PAUSE button as many times as necessary. Certain issues in the Google Translate software cause the translation comes to a stop. If the Italian-speaker asks a question (real or rhetorical), translation comes to a halt and waits for me to either answer the question or hit the "microphone" button. ENNIO DISC ONE: DVD (4K ULTRA HD) (Dolby Atmos) (Region 2) DISC TWO: BLU-RAY (dts-HD Master Audio) (Zone B) I do have an OPPO DVD/Blu-Ray player that can be programmed for multi-region viewing. I plan for ENNIO to be part of my Labor Day Holiday Weekend viewing. By the way, the sound is terrific! Emptor caveat! Ron Burbella    Posted:   Sep 4, 2023 - 1:41 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) That's creative, Ron, but surely ENNIO is available in English too, or with subtitles? There are also some interviewees who speak English. But then I saw it in the theatre, I'm not up-to-date on its DVD/Blu-ray history.    Posted:   Sep 4, 2023 - 2:45 AM     By:   brofax   (Member) I was blissfully unaware of the 2021 Italian feature film (156 minutes!) ENNIO (directed by Giuseppe Tornatore). It was discussed here in 2022. https://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=148059&forumID=1&archive=0 This film started life as 'Ennio the Maestro' but the title appears to have been since shortened to just 'Ennio'. I've seen it several times, originally streaming online from Curzon Cinema at Home and subsequently on Sky. English subs in all cases. Available to stream currently for £4 from: UK: https://homecinema.curzon.com/film/ennio/ Also Ireland: https://www.ifihome.ie/film/ennio/ There are probably others. It requires multiple views to take it all in.    Posted:   Sep 4, 2023 - 2:49 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) This film started life as 'Ennio the Maestro' but the title appears to have been since shortened to just 'Ennio'. It has other names too, like THE GLANCE OF MUSIC: https://mubi.com/en/no/films/ennio-the-maestro Makes it all the more confusing.    Posted:   Sep 29, 2023 - 9:47 PM     By:   Morricone   (Member) A few months ago the Academy Museum announced their Ozu series with no guests mentioned. When the series began there were guests practically every night and all the latter films in the series sold out. This is pretty usual for the Academy as they have access and attract many notable guests from around the world. Indeed it has been announced that both ENNIO: MAESTRO and CINEMA PARADISO will have GIUESEPPE TORNATORE attending and both have sold out. Hopefully those interested got their tickets when I first announced this first "heads up". Now I am buying tickets to anything I am remotely interested in because I never know who the Academy may come up with as a guest. https://www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/series/ennio-morricone-essential-scores-from-a-movie-maestro    Posted:   Sep 30, 2023 - 12:47 PM     By:   Morricone   (Member) READING THE ACADEMY ANNOUNCEMENT When I (with eyes wide) read the month-long schedule of Morricone-scored films scheduled to be screened this month at the Academy, I was blissfully unaware of the 2021 Italian feature film (156 minutes!) ENNIO (directed by Giuseppe Tornatore). Wow! I wondered...is it on video? MY RESEARCH I looked around and was happy to find ENNIO! (in a white box) on video at Amazon. It's a 2-disc set with a nice 20-page booklet full of photos (released Jan 13, 2022). However, the 6 pages of text is in ITALIAN only, so I guess the target audience was Italy/EEU. The dialogue is in ITALIAN only. As far as I can determine, there is no option for English subtitles, only for Italian subtitles (which helps a little). Although I have an Italian-sounding name, I'm Ukrainian. So I had no family upbringing exposure to the Italian language to help here. There is also ENNIO: EL MAESTRO (in black box) for sale, which I'm presuming is the same. If anyone has the second version, please feel free to comment if my presumptions are incorrect. MY SOLUTION (so far) My iPhone Google Translate app has a spoken/microphone feature, which works. Rather than go into neck spasms by incessantly looking up and down, I put my cell phone alongside the video screen, glanced slightly at one or the other, and this worked. I plan to hit the PAUSE button as many times as necessary. Certain issues in the Google Translate software cause the translation comes to a stop. If the Italian-speaker asks a question (real or rhetorical), translation comes to a halt and waits for me to either answer the question or hit the "microphone" button. ENNIO DISC ONE: DVD (4K ULTRA HD) (Dolby Atmos) (Region 2) DISC TWO: BLU-RAY (dts-HD Master Audio) (Zone B) I do have an OPPO DVD/Blu-Ray player that can be programmed for multi-region viewing. I plan for ENNIO to be part of my Labor Day Holiday Weekend viewing. By the way, the sound is terrific! Emptor caveat! Ron Burbella Well you are tenacious Ron, but your stop and start technique would diminish CITIZEN KANE let alone MAESTRO for me.    Posted:   Oct 3, 2023 - 10:40 AM     By:   Morricone   (Member) The first night of the Ennio Morricone Film Fest got off to a great start with two of Morricone's sons attending and Giuseppe Tornatore presenting CINEMA PARADISO in the large Geffen Theater. Tornatore decided to complete the "thank you" he never got to give at the Academy Awards some thirty years ago because his producer took up all the acceptance time. We both cried for the umpteenth time at the film's finale.    Posted:   Oct 7, 2023 - 5:53 PM     By:   Morricone   (Member) The second night of the Ennio Morricone Film Fest was a triumph in many ways. I had seen ENNIO MAESTRO over a year and a half ago and questioned whether my assessment of it being the greatest documentary on any film composer ever filmed would hold, being I was prejudiced on the subject matter. I was also wondering how many came on my recommendation. It did not matter. The film is even better the second time around where I could assess the myriad ways director Giuseppe Tornatore told this labor of love. As I have told many, I strongly feel Steven Spielberg must have seen this when he recently decided to do his John Williams documentary. But he cannot achieve what Tornatore did simply because Tornatore had the foresight to begin his many years ago when most of the participants were still alive. Bravo to this monument in filmmaking!    Posted:   Oct 8, 2023 - 9:15 AM     By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member) Nicely put Henry.    Posted:   Oct 30, 2023 - 11:12 AM     By:   Morricone   (Member) The third night of the Ennio Morricone Film Festival was a film I have seen way too many times. - THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. I was curious whether seeing it on the enormous David Geffen Theater screen would make a difference. The answer was yeah, it does. Unlike the previous Dollar films Sergio Leone made this one more epic and I could not help noticing the number of magnificent vistas immaculately composed here. Also the presence of a substantial audience brought you more into the film with palpable reactions throughout. But this was Ennio's night and the first thing I noticed was how his "coyote" sound began high pitched at the beginning of the movie but then varied throughout the rest. He did the same with many of his themes, not assuming just because he wrote a brilliant tune you would want to hear it the same again and again. But, of course, that is one of the many things that make Morricone - Morricone. I bumped into a good friend Richard Kraft afterwards and we both agreed that the Blowing-up-the-bridge sequence always seemed it was out of some other movie. But, flaws and all, this was rousing good entertainment with a masterly score!    Posted:   Nov 2, 2023 - 4:58 PM     By:   Morricone   (Member) If I had to pick one single film everyone should see on the big screen from the Ennio Morricone Film Festival now at the Academy Museum it would be this Saturday screening of INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION. It won the Oscar in 1970 for Best Foreign Film and I thought Morricone's score had a lot to do with it. There are few movies I have ever seen where the music seemed to drive the film forward but this is definitely one. It has a lot of other things to recommend it. It is as close to Kafka as any film has come (and I include all those versions of THE TRIAL). And the central performance by Gian Maria Volonte (you may know him from two of Leone's Dollar trilogy) is absolutely electric. It was also Oscar nominated for best screenplay. It is a dark murder mystery, political thriller and satire. So for the score that got Stanley Kubrick to ask Morricone to do his CLOCKWORK ORANGE and dynamic filmmaking by Elio Petri by all means see this. https://www.academymuseum.org/.../investigation-of-a...     General Discussion: Ennio Morricone Film Fest in LA including MAESTRO!    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3

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