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After having won with Baaria the ELSA MORANTE CINEMA and the NASTRO D'ARGENTO, Giuseppe Tornatore is now seriously thinking about his next film which will take, in the film director's intentions, less time than Baaria. Tornatore will meet Morricone next summer to talk about it.
In May, Tornatore has substantially restricted the choice to two possibilities for his next film. One of the two, comes directly from the book FLORIAN DEL CASSONETTO and would deal with the childhood problems, matter at Tornatore's heart.
More detailed and definitive news about this story I hope before summer...or after.
Regards, ATK

After having won the DAVID DI DONATELLO, Morricone has won the important GLOBO D'ORO ( the foreign press award ) for the best soundtrack: BAARIA.
In the same ceremony, Tornatore has won the award as best film director.
ATK

On August 20, Morricone will receive the honorary citizenship of the city of Messina ( Sicilia ) for the soundtrack of BAARIA, for his unparelleled achievements in the field of music.
Messina will give Morricone the "Corona d'alloro honoris causa", top prize for artistic merits.
Just the roman emperors like Augusto could wear the "Corona d'alloro".
It's the third time that Morricone receives an honorary citizenship, the only case in the italian art of this century.
Regards, ATK

For the concert that Morricone will have in Milano on 19 November, the organization and the municipality of Milano have asked to the municipality of Cremona (city in northern Italy), the permission to use two instruments by Antonio Stradivari (Cremona 1644-1737), the famous italian "Maestro Liutaio" considered the greatest manufacturer of "strumenti ad arco" of all times.

The municipality of Cremona has considered the possibility of using the two instruments by Stradivari coming from the collection "The arches of the Town hall" at Morricone's concert in Milano and, given the nature and the purpose of this cultural event, has given an opinion in favour of the use of the violin "Vesuvio" (1727) and the cello "Cristiano" (1700).
The value of the instruments is about one million / one million and half euro each.

The municipality of Milano has explained the request by the fact that "...because will be performed some tracks of BAARIA, such a great composition like this, deserves to be performed with the instruments of Antonio Stradivari".

No one before, not only in the world of the soundtracks, had never touched a similar honour. It would be too long to list here the conductors whose orchestras have been able to use (very rarely in fact) the Stradivari's instruments. In any case, it was music composed by Bach, Vivaldi or Mozart, surely not by a soundtracks' composer,

Regards, ATK

The italian president of republic, Giorgio Napolitano, has delivered today during a ceremony at the Quirinale in Roma the "Premio Leonardo 2010 made in Italy" to Morricone for his career.
The jury: "...Morricone deserves this prize for all what he had composed in his long career, expecially for the music of Baaria".
This is the prize N.12 that Morricone gets for the music of Baaria.
With best wishes, I add, for his new forthcoming collaboration with Tornatore,
ATK

And I wonder when BAARIA will receive a USA theatrical release ?

Gary it is out (just now) on DVD in the UK with subtitles in English if any use.

BAARIA has won the 2010 DVD & BLUE-RAY AWARDS overcoming more than 400 dvd.
Among the reasons:"...thanks to the wonderful soundtrack too".
In somewhat way, we can say that it's as Morricone had won his prize N. 14 to have composed the music for this film. A record!
ATK

Less than two years ago, we spoke about the possibility of a second BAARIA cd with unknown music. It was my opinion that a second cd would have never seen the light.
Finally, after all this time, a possibility like this, must be totally excluded due to several reasons long to explain. The cd issued two years ago, will remain the only one BAARIA cd.
ATK

I finally viewed the USA Blu Ray DVD of BAARIA and enjoyed the film immensely...a fine achievement to all involved. It seems that BAARIA never received a USA theatrical release.

Does anyone know if MALENA is available in an uncut version in the USA ? The theatrical version and initial DVD releases were cut versions so I never bothered seeing this film as I prefer the original director's versions .