Born one hundred years ago, Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni appeared in over 170 films, from comedies to Modernist masterpieces. Just how much he meant to the cinema is attested to in these films, where Mastroianni defines the screen actor’s art and our joy in it.
Read full descriptionFor many, Marcello Mastroianni defined Italian masculinity, or at least the debonair version of it, and in this Federico Fellini masterpiece, he gives perhaps his most dashing performance, at once intellectualized and sexualized.
Set in Naples, this film is fast-paced, filled with conniving humanity and bitter passion and yes, romance, Italian style. Sophia Loren’s tour-de-force performance plays against Marcello Mastroianni’s perfectly realized cad.
For Marcello Mastroianni, this is a signature role; the film stands among the best existential films of the 1960s. Pier Paolo Pasolini cowrote the screenplay.
A Federico Fellini masterpiece eddying around Marcello Mastroianni’s definitive performance as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence he sensationalizes.
Novelist Marcello Mastroianni and his wife, Jeanne Moreau, play out a drama of marital disillusionment against Michelangelo Antonioni’s rigorous sense of place and architecture.
For many, Marcello Mastroianni defined Italian masculinity, or at least the debonair version of it, and in this Federico Fellini masterpiece, he gives perhaps his most dashing performance, at once intellectualized and sexualized.
Italian cinema dream team Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni are cast against glamorous type and deliver two of the finest performances of their careers in this moving, quietly subversive drama from Ettore Scola.
Marcello Mastroianni brings his heart to this powerful and haunting film, Marco Bellocchio’s adaptation of a Luigi Pirandello play. The score is by Astor Piazzolla.
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In Dark Eyes—inspired by four Anton Chekhov stories, but in style and tone owing as much to Federico Fellini as it does to Russian literature—Marcello Mastroianni delivers an award-winning performance.
Antonio Tabucchi’s novel According to Pereira “provides Marcello Mastroianni with one of his best roles” (David Rooney, Variety).
Marecello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.
Marcello Mastroianni in Pietro Germi’s Sicilian farce is “a terrific entertainment” (Chicago Reader).
A Federico Fellini masterpiece eddying around Marcello Mastroianni’s definitive performance as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence he sensationalizes.