Mario Monicelli, an enormously popular director and screenwriter whose bittersweet films, notably “Big Deal on Madonna Street” and “The Great War,” blended humor and tragedy to create a ...

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 ...

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But people die in it, there’s no happy ending. Italian comedy, the kind I make, always has this component—Mario Monicelli Film director Mario Monicelli, who, together with Luigi Comencini ...

Monicelli (right) helped launch the careers of actors such as Marcello Mastroianni One of the greats of post-war Italian cinema, Mario Monicelli, has killed himself by jumping out of a hospital ...

MILAN – A five-floor fall from the San Giovanni hospital in Rome was the final act in the life of Mario Monicelli, last of the great maestros of the Italian cinema. At about 9 pm on Monday ...

Oscar-nommed Italo scribe-helmer Mario Monicelli died Nov. 29 after falling from his fifth-story hospital window in Rome. The 95-year-old had been admitted with pancreatic problems, according to ...

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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 ...

One of the greats of post-war Italian cinema, Mario Monicelli, has killed himself by jumping out of a hospital window. Monicelli, 95, was dubbed the "father of Italian comedy" for directing films ...