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 ...

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 ...

ROMEROME — 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 ...

For days the skies above Rome had churned out batterings of rain and merciless gusts of wind, rendering umbrellas almost useless, notions of sightseeing ridiculous, and, amazingly, not deterring the ...

A 95-year-old Italian filmmaker plunged to his death Monday night from the fifth floor of a hospital in Rome. Mario Monicelli, a four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and master of Italian comedy, died ...

Mario Monicelli, often called "the father of Italian screen comedy", was one of the Italian cinemas greatest craftsmen, a director whose prolific output (over 70 films) included several masterpieces, ...

Filmmaker Mario Monicelli, considered one of the fathers the famed ‘commedia Italiana’ genre died in Rome Monday night by suicide, Italian media widely reported. He was 95 years old. Monicelli left ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...