Made in Italy: Morricone, Leone, and More
July 12–August 31, 2024
BAMPFA celebrates the legacy of composer Ennio Morricone (1928–2020) with a series of films he scored for great Italian directors, including Marco Bellocchio, Liliana Cavani, Sergio Leone, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elio Petri, Gillo Pontecorvo, and Lina Wertmüller.
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A Fistful of Dollars © 1964 Unidis, S.A.R.L. All Rights Reserved.
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion © 1970, 1996, 1998 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Once Upon a Time in America
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The Battle of Algiers
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The Lizards
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A Fistful of Dollars
Sergio Leone
Italy, 1964Friday, July 12 7:00 PMPrerecorded Video Introduction by Carmine-Emanuele CellaView DetailsThis first “spaghetti” Western features a lanky Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name, an itinerant gunslinger who finds himself in a beat-up border town ruled over by two ruthless clans. Ennio Morricone’s bravura mix of surf guitar, gongs, and rustic choir only adds to the delirium of this virtuosic oater filled with tumbleweed nihilism.
The Lizards
Lina Wertmüller
Italy, 1963New 4K Digital Restoration
Sunday, July 14 7:00 PMView DetailsEnnio Morricone’s inventive score for his first “auteur film” adds a wry, poignant atmosphere to Lina Wertmüller’s chronicle of the suffocating structures of small-town life in the south of Italy.
For a Few Dollars More
Sergio Leone
Italy, 1965Saturday, July 20 7:00 PMView DetailsEnnio Morricone’s haunting score for Sergio Leone’s follow-up to A Fistful of Dollars both grounds and complements the mounting mayhem of bounty hunters (Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef) versus the brutal, deranged Gian Maria Volontè and his gang.
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
Italy, 1966New 4K Digital Restoration
Wednesday, July 24 7:00 PMPrerecorded Video Introduction by Carmine-Emanuele CellaView DetailsOne of the best films on revolution ever made, Gillo Pontecorvo’s classic concerns Algeria’s struggle for independence against French occupation. Ennio Morricone and Pontecorvo’s pan flute theme for the revolutionary Ali suggests the breath, body, and humanity of the people’s struggle.
Fists in the Pocket
Marco Bellocchio
Italy, 1965Sunday, July 28 6:30 PMView DetailsMarco Bellocchio’s “urgent, impulsive” depiction of a murderously dysfunctional bourgeois family is accompanied by the eerie bells, strings, organ, and vocals of Ennio Morricone’s score.
A Fistful of Dollars
Sergio Leone
Italy, 1964Thursday, August 1 7:00 PMPrerecorded Video Introduction by Carmine-Emanuele CellaView DetailsThis first “spaghetti” Western features a lanky Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name, an itinerant gunslinger who finds himself in a beat-up border town ruled over by two ruthless clans. Ennio Morricone’s bravura mix of surf guitar, gongs, and rustic choir only adds to the delirium of this virtuosic oater filled with tumbleweed nihilism.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Sergio Leone
Italy, 1966Extended Cut
Saturday, August 3 7:00 PMView DetailsEnnio Morricone’s now-legendary score provides depth to Sergio Leone’s brutal characters and resonance to the violent vistas in which this classic fable of American greed plays out.
A Quiet Place in the Country
Elio Petri
Italy, 1968Wednesday, August 7 7:00 PMView DetailsFeaturing art by Jim Dine and music by Ennio Morricone and the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Elio Petri’s Giallo ghost story chronicles the declining mental health of a successful modern painter.
Once Upon a Time in the West
Sergio Leone
Italy, 1968Sunday, August 11 6:00 PMView DetailsSergio Leone goes to the heartland of the Western—Monument Valley—for this monumental revision of American myth, starring Henry Fonda as a ruthless killer up against Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale.
For a Few Dollars More
Sergio Leone
Italy, 1965Thursday, August 15 7:00 PMView DetailsEnnio Morricone’s haunting score for Sergio Leone’s follow-up to A Fistful of Dollars both grounds and complements the mounting mayhem of bounty hunters (Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef) versus the brutal, deranged Gian Maria Volontè and his gang.
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Elio Petri
Italy, 1970Saturday, August 17 7:00 PMView DetailsWinner of the Special Jury Prize and the International Critics’ Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, Elio Petri’s still-timely tale of a corrupt police investigator is kept abuzz with the modernist twinges of Ennio Morricone’s unforgettable compositions.
Teorema
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1968Wednesday, August 21 7:00 PMView DetailsPier Paolo Pasolini combines themes composed by Ennio Morricone with the music of Mozart and Ted Curson in his first film shot in a bourgeois milieu, arguing “anything done by the bourgeoisie, however sincere, profound and noble it is, is on the wrong track.”
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Sergio Leone
Italy, 1966Extended Cut
Saturday, August 24 3:00 PMView DetailsEnnio Morricone’s now-legendary score provides depth to Sergio Leone’s brutal characters and resonance to the violent vistas in which this classic fable of American greed plays out.
The Year of the Cannibals
Liliana Cavani
Italy, 1970Friday, August 30 7:00 PMView DetailsEnnio Morricone’s powerful choral compositions add an element of perfectly pitched defiance to Liliana Cavani’s 1970 adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone, starring Britt Ekland and Pierre Clémenti.
Once Upon a Time in America
Sergio Leone
Italy, United States, 1984Extended Director’s Cut
Saturday, August 31 6:00 PMView DetailsTime, according to Sergio Leone, is the principal character of the film, and it is the mournful passage of time that Ennio Morricone’s classic score powerfully evokes.
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