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Giuseppe Tornatore and Wong Kar-Wai join together for a documentary on Ennio Morricone




Cinema News Card
By Matteo Regoli
February 18, 2020

La Block 2 Distribution, the production and distribution company founded by the master Wong Kar-wai, has secured international distribution rights for the all-Italian documentary Ennio: The Maestro, made by Giuseppe Tornatore and focused on the legendary Ennio Morricone.

The project will mark the thirteenth collaboration between Morricone, 91 years old, and the Sicilian Oscar-winning director, a professional relationship that includes, among others, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, a beloved film beloved the world.

The director Wong Kar-wai, legendary for some of the most beautiful films ever made such as Days of Being Wild, In The Mood For Love and Ashes of Time, is among the numerous directors and composers interviewed for the documentary, alongside Bernardo Bertolucci, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood and Bruce Springsteen. The interviews are edited together with fragments of Morricone's private life, recordings of his concerts around the world, clips from films embellished with his soundtracks and a vast assortment of anecdotes from colleagues and friends, famous and otherwise.

In his long career, which he concluded a few months ago , Morricone has composed music for over 500 films and television programs, with some of his best known works associated with the production of spaghetti westerns, for which he is a signature like Sergio Leone , Clint Eastwood and Sergio Corbucci . Over the years, he has also worked for Terence Malick, Brian de Palma and many others, with his albums selling over 70 million copies worldwide.

In 2016 he received his first Oscar for Tarantino 's The Hateful Eight soundtrack, making him the oldest person to win a competitive Academy Awards (he had already received an honorary Oscar). The documentary is in post-production phase and will be distributed by the end of 2020.

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