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Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject: Ennio goes to Russia
Ennio Morricone Gives Single Concert in Moscow Kremlin
13.02.2008
Ennio Morricone Gives Single Concert in Moscow Kremlin
Prominent composer and conductor Ennio Morricone who turns 80 this year is going to give a single concert in the State Kremlin Palace, Moscow, on the 7th of March.
"Maestro will treat the audience with his hits performed by Rome Symphony Orchestra, the soloists of which have been selected by the composer himself from the best opera houses and conservatories of the world" - the tour organizers point out.
Ennio Morricone is renowned as a film composer first of all. He has also collaborated with Russian filmmakers, in particular, composing soundtracks for the pictures Krasnaya palatka (The Red Tent) (1969) and 72 metra (72 Meters) (2004).
http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/5757/
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Композитор и дирижер Эннио Морриконе, которому в этом году исполняется 80 лет, 7 марта даст единственный коlenta.ruнцерт в Государственном Кремлевском дворце, сообщает «Lenta.ru».
Как рассказали организаторы тура, «маэстро подарит зрителям свои хиты в исполнении Большого симфонического римского оркестра Эннио Морриконе, солисты которого были выбраны лично композитором в лучших оперных театрах и консерваториях мира».
Эннио Морриконе прославился прежде всего как кинокомпозитор. За свою карьеру он написал музыку почти к 500 фильмам, среди которых такие известные картины, как «Хороший, плохой, злой», «Однажды в Америке», «Миссия», «Неприкасаемые», «Декамерон», «Профессионал», телесериал «Спрут» и другие.
Композитор сотрудничал и с российскими кинематографистами, создав музыкальные темы к фильмам «Красная палатка» и «72 метра».
Эннио Морриконе был пять раз номинирован на «Оскар». В 2007 году он получил главный приз американской киноакадемии за выдающийся вклад в кинематограф. Кроме того, в 1987 году за музыку к фильму «Неприкасаемые» он был удостоен премий «Золотой Глобус» и «Грэмми». _________________ A good sound track will let me relive the movie, I can cry over them as well. Hand me the tissues...please.
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Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:30 pm Post subject: Ennio writes again for Tonatore
The Unknown Woman
La Sconosciuta: The Unknown Woman
Written by JOSEPH N. FEINSTEIN
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Ah the trust we give so fully, so completely to people who work for us though we know so little about them. In his newest film, The Unknown Woman - a story of mystery and love, writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore of Cinema Paradise fame, once again is joined by the composer, Ennio Morricone and actress, Xenia Rappoport as the heroine in a most unusual "film noir".
Cunning, calculating, vicious, abused and ever-resourceful, Ms. Rappoport, as Irina, creates a character we will not soon forget in a setting which Mr. Tornatore films with his sharp, determined eye, clearly delineating each step along the way. Abbreviated cuts which flash before our eyes help tell the story of Irina's cruel and sordid past. And when necessary, close ups and a lingering camera look in on her to help assuage the anger of an irate audience into more compassion for her. Fabio Zamarion's expert photography zeroes in on faces, expressing so much pain, relief, satisfaction and joy but the overriding sense of mystery and fury lingers during those flashbacks of terror in Irina's past.
Child actress Clara Dossena in her first film appearance, is absolutely sensational as Tea. Her alternate looks of satisfaction, pain and frustration are totally priceless for she will be bounced and trounced in Irina's attempt to help build her confidence to stand up and fight her schoolyard bullies.
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Tea's mother, Valeria, played astutely by Claudia Gerini and father Donato, played by Pierfrancesco Favino, display the sort of love-distanced relationship so often seen by couples wealthy enough to have a nanny while attending to a most busy, harried life of their own. Money, important positions and a regular schedule can often get in the way of proper parenting or the time to spend with your child; hence a nanny to occupy your space and time. In this case, the nanny is there, having removed the previous nanny in a most purposeful "accident".
The Unknown Woman bears all the marks of excellence in every department of filmmaking and the haunting terror it evinces will keep you glued to your seat. It's raw and tender, all at the same time. This one is a winner!
Opening March, 2008, In Italian with English subtitles _________________ A good sound track will let me relive the movie, I can cry over them as well. Hand me the tissues...please.
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Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:17 am Post subject: Someone owns Ennio now!
ICM scores deal with Morricone
By Kimberly Nordyke
March 6, 2008
Ennio Morricone, who has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions over a 45-year career, has signed with ICM. The composer-conductor-musician has earned five Oscar nominations for original score -- for "Days of Heaven," "The Mission," "The Untouchables," "Bugsy" and "Malena" -- and received an honorary Oscar last year.
Rome-born Morricone also is known for his long collaboration with director Sergio Leone on such films as "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "Once Upon a Time in America." His other credits include "Cinema Paradiso," "Lolita," "Bulworth," "In the Line of Fire" and "La Cage aux Folles." His current project, "Leningrad," directed by "Cinema Paradiso" helmer Giuseppe Tornatore, is set for release later this year.
The Hollywood Reporter
ICM=International Creative Management, Inc. (ICM) is one of the world's largest talent and literary agencies, with offices in Century City, California, New York and London. _________________ A good sound track will let me relive the movie, I can cry over them as well. Hand me the tissues...please.
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Thu May 01, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: Oh to be in New York this week...
MoMA Celebrates Leone's Greatest Western
Movies | Review of: Once Upon a Time in the West
By BRUCE BENNETT
May 1, 2008 updated 4:20 am EDT
It's fitting that the immaculate new restoration of Sergio Leone's 1968 magnum opus "Once Upon a Time in the West," which made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival, will be on display in screenings at the Museum of Modern Art for the next five days. Leone's film is perhaps the single most shameless modernist movie collage of tropes, scenes, themes, shots, and plot points from other films that was not intended to be satire.
The director's previous Westerns had all borrowed heavily from their American progenitors, but the story that Leone and co-scenarists Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento created out of the pieces of Nicholas Ray's "Johnny Guitar," John Ford's "The Iron Horse," Robert Aldrich's "The Last Sunset," and a dozen other American oaters of various vintages is a narrative Frankenstein. In making "Once Upon a Time in the West," however, Leone brought his movie monster to life by creating something remarkably fresh and timeless out of the conceptual scraps of the pictures he loved.
The story — in which a nameless, harmonica-playing gunslinger (Charles Bronson), a widowed New Orleans prostitute (Claudia Cardinale), a world-weary outlaw (Jason Robards), a terminally ill railroad baron (Gabriele Ferzetti), and his ruthless regulator (Henry Fonda, cast deliriously against type) mingle destinies — is doled out so gradually that it borders on the irrelevant. Late in the film, Robards's character, Cheyenne, describes himself and others who live by the pistol as being motivated by "something to do with death," and for much of its running time, that's about as specific as the film gets. And yet there is nothing vague or generalized about the emotions on display or the changing distances the characters keep from one another and from the inevitable oblivion of frontier history made at gunpoint.
"Once Upon a Time in the West" was brutally recut by Paramount Pictures, which shortened the film by some 20 minutes prior to its American release. Though shunned by stateside critics and audiences alike for decades, an unofficial restoration in the 1970s, undertaken by the 16 mm educational movie rental company, Films Incorporated, helped to begin a slow march to cult-film supremacy. That goal was finally achieved via a 35 mm release in 1984 of Leone's original 165-minute international cut and subsequent home-video editions.
The architects of the current restoration have taken particular care with the soundtrack of "Once Upon a Time in the West." This is only fitting, as the film's musical score, by Ennio Morricone, is arguably even more revered than the movie itself. Mr. Morricone's musical cues (the first of which doesn't arrive until well into the second reel of the movie) were written in advance of the film's script, and his music's extravagantly emotional surges and brittle, anxious punctuations account for much of the power and gravity that "Once Upon a Time in the West" sustains.
The film's symphonic tempo, in turn, gave Leone's actors an opportunity to stretch out. Italian films of that era required their multinational casts to do post-recorded dialogue after their scenes were shot. But this potential hindrance proved to be an unusual opportunity for Robards, in particular, who attacked what few lines he has in the film with epicurean relish.
As in the rest of Leone's 1960s work, the use of the bargain-price wide-screen format, Techniscope, adds much. Conventional wide-screen optics would never tolerate the luxurious depth of field and tight close-ups through which Leone told his stories. The Techniscope process — in which conventional lenses are used to create two wide-screen images per frame of film, rather than using a Cinemascope lens to squeeze a single distorted image onto the camera negative — allowed Leone to indulge himself to his heart's content. The camera work and composition on display in "Once Upon a Time in the West" is poetic, baroque, and stunning from start to finish.
Like the old saw about how, from an engineering standpoint, a bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, in some ways "Once Upon a Time in the West," a horse opera in which characters stare at one another far more than they shoot, shouldn't work at all. Long and slow, narratively obtuse and oblique, the film can seem to the uninitiated like a compendium of its director's stylistic obsessions run in slow motion. Its silences and spaces are vast enough to strand an impatient viewer in a three-hour movie purgatory. But Leone's tectonically paced lullaby to the Western is a result of an immense, brooding romanticism unequaled in any of the director's other films. It stands alongside Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," a movie that also turns 40 this year, as a pinnacle of '60s auteurism run magnificently amuck, and genre filmmaking redefined, re-invigorated, and forever changed thereafter.
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http://www2.nysun.com/article/75665 _________________ A good sound track will let me relive the movie, I can cry over them as well. Hand me the tissues...please.
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Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:35 am Post subject: Not a memorable ST
Thing about this ST, Navajo Joe is more the actors and music than the movie itself. A good spaghetti western to be sure. Here is a review I just got.
Navajo Joe |
The Film
For those of us who like spaghetti westerns, there are a number of advantages that they have over their American counterparts. First of all, they represent a European, and possibly more objective eye, on the formation of the United States of America. There is no national chauvinism to overcome in the re-writing of the history, and even if the films remain Euro-centric they are at least decidedly more liberal than the homegrown product. Secondly, they are less predictable. I can't imagine that Hollywood would make anything as downbeat as The Great Silence or as crackers as Django Kill, If You Live Shoot. Finally and most importantly, their heroes are less clean cut, less wholesome and less white, if only sometimes purely in the screenplay.
Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe features a very pink Burt Reynolds as an avenging Native American called on to help a town fight back against outlaws. This town, Esperanza, is full of supposedly respectable people who are actually weak, venal racist chinless wonders and they find themselves dependent on the help of a man whom they would normally have paid one dollar for as a corpse. Interestingly, when Joe offers his services to save their hides he values their lives the same - one dollar a head. Joe is protecting the townsfolk from a half-breed whose hatred of his roots made him the natural assassin for Joe's fellow Indians when the town had him on the payroll. Once Duncan, their former henchman, becomes an embarrassment to his former employers he returns as their nemesis.
True to form, Corbucci sets up parallels between Duncan and Joe. They are both possibly of mixed race, their status is undesirable with respect to Esperanza's bourgeoisie, and they both kill for a dollar a head. Reynolds' Joe may be a more temperate man than Duncan but when he savours his revenge he becomes like a beast as he pummels and tries to kill with his bare hands as his bloodlust rises. Corbucci makes neither of these characters true monsters, this status is left for the crooked capitalist and the director shows the pompous weak priest as no use to anyone with his sermonising. In Navajo Joe, the good are whores, servants and social outcasts.
So Western norms are turned on their head, with the Native American the hero and the villain a product of a hateful world of prejudice and corruption. Clearly this is less successful when the hero is in fact played by the poster boy for wholesome American heterosexuality, albeit looking somewhat raw from too long in the desert sun, but Reynolds is physically impressive and allows his character's revenge to take on a rather nasty edge. Solid support comes from Aldo Sambrell as the self loathing Duncan, Fernando Rey as the useless priest, and Nicoletta Machiavelli reddens up to be Joe's love interest.
You will recall parts of the score from its use in the set pieces in Kill Bill as Ennio Morricone delivers another belter for Corbucci which allows the fights and the climax to exceed their purely dramatic elements. The screenplay comes with involvement from Fernando Di Leo and even if the film does not have particularly quotable dialogue there is enough in the way of doppelganger allusions and leftie politics to make things satisfying, if not achieving top notch status. The company the film keeps in the director's career may embarrass it, with Django made the same year and better efforts like The Mercenary, Companeros and The Great Silence appearing in the next two years. Still this is a film which is every bit as flawed and enjoyable as The Hellbenders and as such a good to middling example of this sub-genre.
Navajo Joe is a solid if not distinguished spaghetti western that Reynolds seems to have made by mistake - he allegedly believed Leone would be directing. Some trademark playing with politics, and a lone outsider hero guarantee an entertaining ride.
The Disc
Cut by six seconds to remove supposed animal cruelty, the film comes on a dual layer region two disc with the single extra of a theatrical trailer. The quality on the trailer is somewhat rough with the action cropped and squeezed into full screen from the original Techniscope ratio and the colours are muddy and dark and wear and tear is unavoidable. The trailer is presented as one of the three options on the very simple menu, along with "Play" and "scene select".
The audio track provided here is an English mono dub which is a reasonable quality track given the usual materials offered up for other cult westerns. The track distorts when the music swells and there is an almost metallic tone to some of the dialogue, along with an amount of echo on some of the sound effects. The imperfections don't irritate greatly and the voices are easily discerned and the music presented well enough. Visually, this is a film with a lot of evening scenes and the changes in light were not always well managed by the contrast. Some action is very dark and there is a lack of detail at times even if the sharpness is usually very strong. Contrast looks a little boosted at times, just look at the sky in the above still, and edges around the landscapes are over emphasised. Still this is very acceptable given what has been offered before with previous releases. The film comes in the original aspect ratio of 2.35:1.
Summary
This seems to be a basic port of the R1 release with few extras. Corbucci fans won't be able to help themselves if they don't own the R1 disc and fans of the genre will definitely need to give this a rental. _________________ A good sound track will let me relive the movie, I can cry over them as well. Hand me the tissues...please.
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I had a great time reading this thread, so thanks to all ita contributors. Just wanted to say that.
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Couple weeks ago while watching an NFL football game.. yes we lost...an ad appeared. No biggy.. expect the music. I did not pay much attention to the ad as the music was Ennio Morricone! whoa
Had to see it a few more times to realize it was about two football players and Nike!
take a look
The players are Troy Polamalu and Ladanian Tomlinson (again, spelling?), for the Steelers and Chargers respectively.
UPDATE: I get a bulletin about Ennio Morricone. I have since we went to NYC to see him. It was posted in there that the commercial was running and how cool it was. HOWEVER, the music was credited to JayZ, some yahoo rapper! {don't go off on me now} I got miffed!
So I said so. and then got vindication! SWEET!
fair is fair and right is right! humph!! _________________ A good sound track will let me relive the movie, I can cry over them as well. Hand me the tissues...please.
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Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:08 am Post subject:
You know I am addicted to Ennio Morricone music. Duhhh...Whether I ever get to see him again or not it was the best thing ever to get to go to NYC. However, there might be a next best thing.
There is a group I have been seeing in my Morricone news flash. Last few weeks they are getting a lot of press about their show. They are called
The Spaghetti Western Orchestra.
"The Spaghetti Western Orchestra premiered in 2007 and was the sell-out hit of The Montreal Jazz Festival. It then played L'Europeen Theatre in Paris, the St Pauli Theatre in Hamburg, the Koln Philharmonie and The Athenaeum Theatre In Melbourne.This year, the show returned to Montreal for the En Lumiere Festival at the Outremont Theatre.
The show has just completed a four week season in Paris playing at the Cafe De la Danse Theatre from Sept 16 to Oct 11."
THE SHOW
The Orchestra rides into town, with a wagon train of instruments, to perform all the classic Ennio Morricone music including; The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon A Time In The West and For A Few Dollars More.
With a fistful of humour and a bucket-load of fun, the orchestra underscores these brilliant musical adventures: all the sound effects of the iconic spaghetti western movies - every punch up, gunshot, and jangling spur - is recreated using coat hangers, cornflakes, nail clippers, rubber gloves and other ingenious ‘instruments’ pulled from their saddlebag of tricks.
The show is a tribute to the maestro Morricone, performed by a posse of magnificent musicians.
Spaghetti Western Orchestra home page:
http://www.spaghettiwesternorchestra.com/pages/swo/home _________________ A good sound track will let me relive the movie, I can cry over them as well. Hand me the tissues...please.
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Just to let you know that Ennio is going to give a concert in Belgrade, Serbia on Saturday 14 February 2009
It includes 50 years of music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Ennio Morricone.
You can purchase CDs, DVDs and single tracks recorded during his concerts and in studio, now available in mp3.
All the recordings have been supervised and authorized by Maestro Morricone.
_________________ A good sound track will let me relive the movie, I can cry over them as well. Hand me the tissues...please.
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