With a legacy of iconic work, there isn’t a composer today that has left as much of an impact as Ennio Morricone. The Italian maestro defined the sound of the western with his work on Sergio Leone classics, collaborated with such great directors as Terrence Malick, Gillo Pontecorvo, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Carpenter, Brian De Palma, and most recently, delivered an excellent score for Quentin Tarantino‘s The Hateful Eight.
He’s now rightfully the subject of a new feature-length documentary titled The Glance of Music, which is directed by Giuseppe Tornatore, a collaborator with Morricone since Cinema Paradiso. Today brings the fairly lengthly first trailer for the film, which finds Morricone sharing a Leone anecdote and dropping some brilliant insights, notably, “A film is what we see or hear but music represents the unsaid and the unseen.”
Said to be “coming soon,” check out the trailer below, along with Tarantino’s acceptance speech for one of the very few awards the Golden Globes got right this year.
What’s your favorite score from Morricone?