Morricone: Greatest Hits--March 14 – 27 At VIFF With The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Untouchables & More!
While music has always been integral to the power of cinema, few composers have made a more dramatic impact than Ennio Morricone (1928-2020). The son of a trumpet player who grew up in a working class neighbourhood in Rome, Morricone was an avant-garde composer who found he had an affinity for movies. His scores for Sergio Leone’s 1960s spaghetti westerns revolutionized the form: incorporating electric and Spanish guitar, Jew’s harp, bells, whistles, cracking whips and gunshots, and the human voice, Morricone’s music was galvanizing, ironic, raw… In Leone’s films, it’s never subservient to the images, but triangulated with the actors and the camera (in fact the later films were choreographed to the score).
In this series we pull out half a dozen of Morricone’s most memorable scores from a filmography of more than 400 titles, and we showcase Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore’s loving profile of his friend and collaborator, Ennio.
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Ennio--Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore 150 min
Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore proves the perfect filmmaker to craft this loving tribute to one of the all-time greats: composer Ennio Morricone (1928-2020).
Friday, March 14th 4 pm
Sunday, March 16th 5pm
Tuesday, March 18 230 pm
Saturday, March 22 130 pm
A Fistful of Dollars--Dir. Sergio Leone-96 mins
Morricone's clamorous score -- with its chanting, flamenco guitar, bells and whistling -- encapsulated everything that was exciting and new about Sergio Leone's revolutionary spaghetti western, its brazen cheek and style.
Friday, March 14 930 pm
Saturday, March 15 8 pm
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly-Dir. Sergio Leone-179 min
The third and the best of the so-called 'Dollars' trilogy amplifies Leone's baroque style: crane shots, shock cuts and Morricone music all vying for attention as three rogues hunt buried gold in a series of triangular variations.
Saturday, March 16 8 pm
Saturday, March 22 230 pm
Once Upon a Time in the West Dir. Sergio Leone 166 min
A magnum opus from Sergio Leone, the most operatic of Westerns, with a magnificent, soaring score to match its scale and set the tempo by Ennio Morricone, music that speaks of yearning, loss, and perseverance.
Monday, March 17 345 pm
Sunday, March 23 730 pm
The Mission Dir. Roland Joffe 125 min
Written by Robert Bolt (Lawrence of Arabia; A Man for All Seasons), The Mission is the story of an C18th Catholic outpost on the lands of the Guarani people, near the Iguazi Falls. Music is a transcendent force here, and Morricone's score is inspired.
Wednesday, March 19 845 pm
Thursday, March 20 4 pm
Days of Heaven Dir. Terrence Malick 94 min
As in Badlands, Malick tells a sensational story – here a love triangle – through the oblique perspective of a child, collateral damage in this tale. In place of melodrama, he gives us cinematic poetry.
Friday, March 21 930 pm
Monday, March 24 420 pm
Thursday March 27 850 pm
The Untouchables Dir. Brian de Palma 119 min
With a screenplay by David Mamet and a magnificenct cast (De Niro, Costner and Connery!) De Palma enjoyed one of his biggest hits with this big scale, mythic rendering of the Al Capone story, bolstered by one of Morricone's most stirring scores.
Grammy Award: The score won a Grammy Award for "Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television".
Saturday, March 22 840 pm
Wednesday, March 26 9 pm
The Great Silence Dir. Sergio Corbucci 105 min
A mute gunfighter, Silenzio (Jean Louis Trintignant) circles the vicious bounty hunter Loco (Klaus Kinski) in the snowy mountains of Utah, in this, one of the greatest westerns ever made. Morricone's music caps an under-seen but unforgettable classic.
Tuesday, March 25 9 pm
Wednesday, March 26 645 pm
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