ROMEROME — Deftly mixing comedy with tragedy, director Mario Monicelli laid bare Italy’s flaws and sins for a half-century on the screen. In his final script of his own life, he chose a dramatic ...

Marco Porru's hourlong "Mario Monicelli, the Viareggio Craftsman" does much to set the record straight about the helmer of "Big Deal on Madonna Street". Pic adopts a bantering tone and up-close ...

All Italian comedy is dramatic.... often tragic, but it’s treated in a humorous way. But people die in it, there’s no happy ending. Italian comedy, the kind I make, always has this component—Mario ...

ROME (AP) — Deftly mixing comedy with tragedy, director Mario Monicelli laid bare Italy's flaws and sins for a half-century on the screen. In his final script of his own life, he chose a dramatic ...

Deftly mixing comedy with tragedy, director Mario Monicelli laid bare Italy's flaws and sins for a half-century on the screen. In his final script of his own life, he chose a dramatic ending: Plunging ...

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Mario Monicelli, who died on Monday aged 95, was one of the principal fathers of Italian comedy films; a director of radical views, he became a political irritant as a trenchant critic of his ...

Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter Mario Monicelli, considered one of the fathers of the Italian comedy of the 1940s-1960s, died Monday after jumping from a fifth-story hospital window, the ...

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ROME – Deftly mixing comedy with tragedy, director Mario Monicelli laid bare Italy's flaws and sins for a half-century on the screen. In his final script of his own life, he chose a dramatic ending: ...