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Yeah that's a good thread joanie, give it a read.
I have to say I thought it was brilliant film but I found it very moving - too moving - and it brought a lump in my throat many times.
I think Tornatore should turn it into an 8 part series, dig out all his original interviews and double the length lol.
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Feb 10, 2024 - 7:42 AM
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CK
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Joan, if you have a care, here are my thoughts about seeing this movie last year:
So I saw this yesterday evening...and like everybody else before me, I cannot recommend this moving film enough. Fittingly, it was my first post-Corona movie that I went to see in a cinema (with, in the end, perhaps 20 other patrons).
The day before, I had watched a retrospective of the life of Pope Benedict XVI. "Ennio - The Maestro" shows a person whose personality and character traits strongly reminded of what I saw from the Pope. Apart from the consummate artist with an immense knowledge and serious work ethic, Ennio Morricone was shown and described, both in his own words and those of his long-time collaborators, as a deeply humane and humble person, with a wry sense of humour, sincere, authentic and, for lack of a better word, "sound". Perhaps their growing up and living during the same time period has something to do with this?
He was a unique composer and human being and the World could do with another, oh I dunno, five million of his kind.
I haven't watched many documentaries in a cinema, much less about a single person. This one made me laugh, cheer, cry and wistful. My exposure to Ennio Morricone's music isn't as broad or deep as for some of you; my personal highlights are getting my autograph request fulfilled by him many years ago, seeing him get an embrace from John Williams after winning the Oscar for The Hateful Eight, experiencing the man and his music in concert in Munich in 2017, and then having the chance last October to briefly visit his (unmarked) grave outside of Rome and saying thanks for his beautiful music.
If this movie is playing anywhere within an hour's driving distance, I'm beseeching you to go see it, no matter how big (or small) a fan of Morricone you are. And perhaps take someone with you. It'll be absolutely worth your time and dime.
CK 
PS: Which music was used for the end credits crawl? 'coz I need dat!
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Feb 10, 2024 - 8:20 AM
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Leo Nicols
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Joan, if you have a care, here are my thoughts about seeing this movie last year:
So I saw this yesterday evening...and like everybody else before me, I cannot recommend this moving film enough. Fittingly, it was my first post-Corona movie that I went to see in a cinema (with, in the end, perhaps 20 other patrons).
The day before, I had watched a retrospective of the life of Pope Benedict XVI. "Ennio - The Maestro" shows a person whose personality and character traits strongly reminded of what I saw from the Pope. Apart from the consummate artist with an immense knowledge and serious work ethic, Ennio Morricone was shown and described, both in his own words and those of his long-time collaborators, as a deeply humane and humble person, with a wry sense of humour, sincere, authentic and, for lack of a better word, "sound". Perhaps their growing up and living during the same time period has something to do with this?
He was a unique composer and human being and the World could do with another, oh I dunno, five million of his kind.
I haven't watched many documentaries in a cinema, much less about a single person. This one made me laugh, cheer, cry and wistful. My exposure to Ennio Morricone's music isn't as broad or deep as for some of you; my personal highlights are getting my autograph request fulfilled by him many years ago, seeing him get an embrace from John Williams after winning the Oscar for The Hateful Eight, experiencing the man and his music in concert in Munich in 2017, and then having the chance last October to briefly visit his (unmarked) grave outside of Rome and saying thanks for his beautiful music.
If this movie is playing anywhere within an hour's driving distance, I'm beseeching you to go see it, no matter how big (or small) a fan of Morricone you are. And perhaps take someone with you. It'll be absolutely worth your time and dime.
CK
PS: Which music was used for the end credits crawl? 'coz I need dat!
If my rapidly fading memory serves me correctly it was 'Deborah's Theme' from 'Once Upon A Time In America'
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Can not wait to see it. Hope it pops up in my town or on a streaming service.
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Well, almost two months later and it DID pop up in my town, and seeing ENNIO in a very, very old movie theater that probably showed quite a few Morricone classics over the decades, was an added plus.
The film was wonderful, though light on personal details in his adult years. The main course was the music and the creator of the music, and that aspect didn't disappoint. An extensive interview with EM runs throughout, aided by bits with collaborators and famous fans, plus an incredible amount of archival footage, much of it from his pop arranging days. Most of the major scores were touched on, as were quite a lot of more obscure ones. Grear to see such a breakdown of how EM came up with the theme from "The Sicilian Clan," for instance.
Finally, it is worth the price of admission to see and hear the maestro scream the famous coyote call.
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I also hope that this film will shed light on some deserving Morricone scores that are out of print and now costly on the secondary market such as Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and Uccellacci E Uccellini. Both are featured in the documentary.
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If you don't have to own it, you can always rent it from Amazon.
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