Word: monicelli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...