The Italian film director Mario Monicelli has died aged 95, after jumping out of a hospital window in Rome. Monicelli directed more than 60 films, most of which he co-wrote. He was best known for I ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mario Monicelli, 95, was considered one of the fathers of 1940s-60s Italian comedy and worked with actors including Marcello Mastroianni and Toto. By Eric J. Lyman, Martina Riva SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN - ...

The four-time Oscar-nominated film-maker Mario Monicelli has died at the age of 95 after leaping to his death from a hospital window, according to reports. Known as one of the masters of the Commedia ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 window ...

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 new genre ...

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 ...