Marcello Mastroianni at 100

December 15, 2024–February 27, 2025

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.

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  • Luchino Visconti: White Nights, 1957

  • Nikita Mikhalkov: Dark Eyes, 1987

  • Federico Fellini: La dolce vita, 1960

  • Pietro Germi: Divorce Italian Style, 1961

  • Vittorio De Sica: Marriage Italian Style, 1964

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  • White Nights

    Luchino Visconti
    Italy, France, 1957
    Sunday, December 15 4:00 PM

    Marecello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.

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  • Divorce Italian Style

    Pietro Germi
    Italy, 1961
    Thursday, December 19 7:00 PM

    Marcello Mastroianni in Pietro Germi’s Sicilian farce is “a terrific entertainment” (Chicago Reader).

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  • Le dolce vita

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1960
    Saturday, December 21 6:00 PM

    A Federico Fellini masterpiece eddying around Marcello Mastroianni’s definitive performance as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence he sensationalizes.

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  • 8 1/2

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1963
    Saturday, January 11 6:30 PM

    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.

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  • Marriage Italian Style

    Vittorio De Sica
    Italy, France, 1964
    Sunday, January 12 4:30 PM

    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.

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  • Il bell’Antonio

    Mauro Bolognini
    Italy, France, 1960
    Thursday, January 16 7:00 PM

    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.

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  • Le dolce vita

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1960
    Wednesday, January 22 7:00 PM

    A Federico Fellini masterpiece eddying around Marcello Mastroianni’s definitive performance as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence he sensationalizes.

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  • La notte

    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Italy, France, 1961
    Sunday, January 26 3:00 PM

    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.

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  • 8 1/2

    Federico Fellini
    Italy, 1963
    Sunday, February 2 7:00 PM

    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.

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  • A Special Day

    Ettore Scola
    Italy, 1977
    Sunday, February 9 4:00 PM

    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.

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  • Henry IV

    Marco Bellocchio
    Italy, 1984
    Saturday, February 15 4:30 PM

    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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  • Dark Eyes

    Nikita Mikhalkov
    Italy, USSR, 1987

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    Friday, February 21 7:00 PM

    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.

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  • According to Pereira

    Roberto Faenza
    Italy, Portugal, France, 1995
    Thursday, February 27 7:00 PM

    Antonio Tabucchi’s novel According to Pereira “provides Marcello Mastroianni with one of his best roles” (David Rooney, Variety).

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