Monicelli directed such classics as “I Soliti Ignoti,” (Big Deal on Madonna Street), “The Great War,” “For Love and Gold,” and the “My Friends” series with Ugo Tognazzi and Philippe Noiret. The ...

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...

The elaborate heist at the center of this indie comedy is nothing compared to the screenplay’s ransacking of Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), the classic Italian farce by Mario Monicelli. Like that ...

Oscar-nommed Italo scribe-helmer Mario Monicelli died Nov. 29 after falling from his fifth-story hospital window in Rome. The 95-year-old had been admitted with pancreatic problems, according to the ...

Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli isn’t exactly a household name these days, but in the ‘50s and ‘60s his films were routinely released here. His 1958 “Big Deal on Madonna Street” was not only an ...