Ennio Morricone

Born 10th Novemeber 1928 he is considered one of the most prolific and influential film composers of his era. Morricone has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and TV productions.[3] He is well-known for his long-term collaborations with international acclaimed directors such as Sergio Leone, Brian De Palma, Barry Levinson, and Giuseppe Tornatore.

He wrote the characteristic film scores of Leone's Spaghetti Westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). In the 80s, Morricone composed the scores for John Carpenter's horror movie The Thing (1982), Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Roland Joffé's The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma's The Untouchables (1987) and Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso (1988).

Western Film Clips

Spaghetti Western Clips

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Music

Western Music

Spaghetti Westerns

During the 1960s and 1970s, a revival of the Western emerged in Italy with the "Spaghetti Westerns" or "Italo-Westerns". The most famous of them is The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Many of these films are low-budget affairs, shot in locations (for example, the Spanish desert region of Almería) chosen for their inexpensive crew and production costs as well as their similarity to landscapes of the Southwestern United States. Spaghetti Westerns were characterized by the presence of more action and violence than the Hollywood Westerns. Also, the protagonists usually acted out of more selfish motives (money or revenge being the most common) than in the classical westerns.
The films directed by Sergio Leone have a parodic dimension (the strange opening scene of Once Upon a Time in the West being a reversal of Fred Zinnemann's High Noon opening scene) which gave them a different tone to the Hollywood Westerns. Charles Bronson, Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood became famous by starring in Spaghetti Westerns, although they were also to provide a showcase for other noted actors such as Jason Robards, James Coburn, Klaus Kinski and Henry Fonda.

Westerns

The Western is a genre of art that may be found in film, television, radio, literature, painting and other visual arts. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 but most are set between the end of the American Civil War (1865) and the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.Early Westerns were mostly filmed in the studio, just like other early Hollywood films, but when location shooting became more common from the 1930s, producers of Westerns used desolate corners of Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, or Wyoming.

Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States circa 1971 when many exploitation films were made specifically (and perhaps exclusively) for an audience of urban black people.

Famous films include -

Hammer Starring Fred Williamson as B.J. Hammer, a boxer who gets mixed up with a crooked manager who wants him to throw a fight for the Mafia.
Cleopatra Jones and its sequel, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975), star Tamara Dobson as a karate-chopping government agent. The first film marked the beginning of a subgenre of blaxploitation films which focused on strong female leads who took an active role in shootouts and fights
Jackie Brown (1997) Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, and an all-star supporting cast, director Quentin Tarantino partly pays homage to the blaxploitation genre. Based on the Elmore Leonard novel Rum Punch, Tarantino's title change, casting of Grier, and '70s-style poster art, are all references to Grier's 1974 film Foxy Brown.

Music In Inglourious Basterds

this is the soundtrack used in Inglorious Basterds, it is made up of 22 songs!


■ The Green Leaves of Summer – Nick Perito – From the movie The Alamo
■ The Verdict – Ennio Morricone – From the movie The Big Gundown
■ L’incontro Con La Figlia – Ennio Morricone – From the movie The Return of Ringo
■ White Lightning – Charles Bernstein – From the movie White Lightning
■ Il Mercenario (Reprisa) - Ennio Morricone – From the movie Il Mercenario
■ Slaughter - Billy Preston – From the movie Slaughter
■ Algiers, November 1954 – Ennio Morricone & Gillo Pontecorvo – From the movie The Battle of Algiers
■ The Surrender (La resa) – Ennio Morricone – From the movie The Big Gundown
■ One Silver Dollar (Un Dollaro Bucato) – Gianni Ferrio – From the movie Blood for a Silver Dollar
■ Bath Attack – Charles Bernstein – From the movie The Entity
■ Davon geht die Welt nicht unter – Zarah Leander – From the movie Die große Liebe
■ The Man With The Big Sombrero – June Havoc – From the movie Hi Diddle Diddle
■ Ich wollt ich wär ein Huhn – Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch – From the movie Glückskinder
■ Main Theme From Dark of the Sun – Jacques Loussier – From the movie Dark of the Sun
■ Cat People (Putting Out Fire) – David Bowie – From the movie Cat People
■ Mystic and Severe – Ennio Morricone – From the movie Death Rides a Horse
■ The Devil’s Rumble – Mike Curb and The Arrows – From the movie Devil’s Angels
■ Zulus – Elmer Bernstein – From the movie Zulu Dawn
■ Tiger Tank – Lalo Schifrin – From the movie Kelly’s Heroes
■ Un Amico – Ennio Morricone – From the movie Revolver
■ Eastern Condors – Sherman Chow Gam – Cheung – From the movie Eastern Condors
■ Rabbia e Tarantella – Ennio Morricone – From the movie Allonsanfàn

Inglourious Basterds

Rotten Tomatoes -88%

Some positive comments -
Simply Tarantino's best. A very intelligent script that combines war movie elements with some pointed observations about violence in movies and in society.
Tarantino's visual style and flare for the fantasy make for an intriguing and colorful World War II drama.
This is filmmaking at its bravest, and whether Tarantino is a genius or a fool, he does nothing by accident.

Some negative comments -
It's these fine sequences that can make you truly regret Tarantino's snarky, in-joke impulses, not to mention his arrogant -- perhaps even dangerous -- lack of concern with the story's moral dimensions.
Its biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might seem a stodgy thing to bring up in the context of a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it takes such center stage that it needs to be examined.
One basterd of a movie... Who wants to hear Quentin Tarantino dialogue in a foreign language, thus having to read it?

Filmography

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Four Rooms
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Sin City
Death Proof
Inglourious Basterds
Past Midnight
True Romance
Natural Born Killers
Crimson Tide
From Dusk till Dawn
The Rock
Curdled

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Born Quentin Jerome Tarantino
March 27, 1963 (
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation Film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor

An American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and occasional actor.