In collaboration with Cinecittà studios of Rome, the Museum of Modern Art commemorates the extensive work of Ennio Morricone. The exhibition commences December 1st of 2023 and will be on display in Manhattan until January 10th of 2024. The display showcases a selection of 35mm archival prints and 17 digital restorations derived from the work produced by Morricone and his distinctive taste.

During the span of his lifetime, Ennio Morricone composed soundtracks for a collection of Italian and American films which received outstanding appraisal from various publications. He is best known for composing the soundtrack of Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name trilogy. Morricone additionally cultivated the soundtrack for Quetin Tarentino’s Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Adrian Lyne’s controversial adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.