The documentary 'Ciao Marcello, Mastroianni l’antidivo,' screening at the Rome Film Fest, provides an intimate look at Marcello Mastroianni.

Working together through the decades, this week of Film School focuses on the collaborations of Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren.

Actress Sophia Loren, with Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni on TV’s Dick Cavett Show, Sept. 21, 1977. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler) AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler ...

Screen legend Sophia Loren returns to acting in an intimate project directed by her son Edoardo Ponti.

Screen legend Sophia Loren returns to acting in an intimate project directed by her son Edoardo Ponti.

Q: I had a “Sophia Loren Evening” making recipes from your 1995 cookbook: Your mother’s pepper dish, your grandmother’s panzanella and Marcello Mastroianni’s favorite dish of yours ...

Sophia Loren keesed me twice. Not passionate like Cary Grant or Marcello Mastroianni, whom she told a Ruth Eckerd Hall audience was her favorite kisser on screen. Ours was the European kind ...

Before rising to international fame after signing a five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures in 1958, Loren worked on a series of films with Italian star Marcello Mastroianni.

Having previously starred together in numerous films, including Marriage Italian Style and (no kidding) Sex Pot, Loren and Mastroianni both play against type here, confounding audience expectations.

I used to watch Marcello Mastroianni films and Monica Vitti. Sophia Loren not so much. But Antonioni. Plus Fellini’s “8 1/2.” I love that surreal look. That kooky ’60s feel.