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Noiret also shows up in MY FRIENDS, a film begun by the witty, raucous Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style), who collaborated on the script but died after hardly a week of filming in 1974, at the age of 60. Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street) completed the movie, which, unfortunately, does little credit to anyone. My Friends concerns the infrequently amusing forays of a group of five stalwarts (Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moshin, Duilio Del Prete, Adolfo Celi) who break out of their conventional, half-failing lives to have a little fun. This usually involves playing practical jokes-such...
...Organizer, a relatively obscure but reportedly excellent film about the politics of the Italian Left at the end of the 19th century, is showing at the Science Center tonight and tomorrow at 7 and 9:30. Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film made in 1963 by director Monicelli. Tickets...
...Organizer (1961), showing at the Brattle, Marcello Mastroianni is a different man: leading a worker's rebellion. The Organizer may be his best film. Certainly director Mario Monicelli has put together one of the best films about a labor movement, carefully drawing his characters; building up suspense as the workers begin to organize; moving, with precise editing, to a gloomy yet somehow very inspiring ending. Set in Turin in the late 19th century, this film has a photographic restraint which keeps it from preaching. Monicelli never overdoes a scene. He presents striking scenery, for example, in a mature...
...liveliest of the film's ten encounters, Director Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street, The Organizer) exuberantly parodies such earthy Sicilian comedies as Pietro Germi's Seduced and Abandoned. Posing as a doctor, Mastroianni offers his protection to a dishonored country girl (Yolanda Modio) and becomes so inflamed by the nearness of her murderous menfolk that he begins biting buttons off her dress. Another stylishly funny sequence, indebted to Fellini, drums up elegant corruption at a villa where a deaf aristocrat's mistress (Marisa Mell) tries to persuade Mastroianni to kill for her. In pursuit...
...tycoon's sumptuous beach house, the lady reveals that her whim for today is rough stuff in a sleazy motel room-a touch of aberration that is clue to a conventional surprise ending. In the last episode, Modern People, directed with rich detail and folksy color by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), a cheese dealer (Ugo Tognazzi) offers his wife to a creditor in payment of his gambling losses, only to learn the high cost of cuckoldry...