Quartet Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1971 Italian thriller Confessions of a Police Captain (Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica) co-written and directed by Damiano Damiani and starring Franco Nero, Martin Balsam and Marilù Tolo. The album features the expanded and remastered original score from the film composed by Riz Ortolani (Mondo Cane, The Yellow Rolls-Royce, The 7th Dawn, The Spy with the Cold Nose, The Glory Guys), including previously unreleased music. The limited edition CD is now available to order on the label’s official website, where you can also listen to audio samples and find out more about the release.
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Riz Ortolani (1926 – 2014)
Riz Ortolani has passed away at age 87. The Italian composer scored around 200 films both in home country, as well as the United States, England and Germany. He received two Academy Awards for the original songs More from 1962’s Mondo cane and Till Love Touches Your Life from the 1970 western Madron. He was also Golden Globe-nominated for his Madron song, as well as the title song from Buena Sera, Mrs. Campbell and his score for the Ingrid Bergman- and Shirley MacLaine-starring 1964 comedy The Yellow Rolls-Royce. He won a Golden Globe for the song Forget Domani from the same film. His score for Mondo cane also earned him a Grammy nomination. His other film scoring credits include 1964’s The 7th Dawn starring William Holden, the 1966 British comedy The Spy with the Cold Nose and the 1965 western The Glory Guys. In recent years, his music was chosen by Quentin Tarantino and used in the director’s Kill Bill features, as well as Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained.
Riz Ortolani to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Ghent Film Festival
Riz Ortolani has been selected as the 13th recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the the closing-night gala of the World Soundtrack Awards at the Ghent Film Fest on October 19, 2013. The Italian composer is best known for his scores to numerous spaghetti westerns and international films including the 1980 horror film Hannibal Holocaust and the British drama The 7th Dawn. Ortolani received a Grammy and an Academy Award nomination for the song More from the 1962 documentary Mondo Cane and was honored with another Oscar nomination for writing the title song for the 1970 western Madron. His music was recently featured in several films directed by Quentin Tarantino, including Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds.