Please note: two days ago, Mario Monicelli died, at age 95. He jumped from a fifth-floor balcony of the hospital where he was being treated for prostate cancer, in Rome. He truly deserves a post on this blog. Monicelli was one of the greatest italian directors - the father of the "commedia all'italiana" genre - and a great man indeed. If you love cinema, and you'd like to know Italy, you must know his movies. Here is the obituary of the New York Times:
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Please note: two days ago, Mario Monicelli died, at age 95. He jumped from a fifth-floor balcony of the hospital where he was being treated for prostate cancer, in Rome. He truly deserves a post on this blog. Monicelli was one of the greatest italian directors - the father of the "commedia all'italiana" genre - and a great man indeed. If you love cinema, and you'd like to know Italy, you must know his movies. Here is the obituary of the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/movies/30monicelli.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=monicelli&st=cse
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