Director Miguel Gomes cameos in his own massive three-part film, Arabian Nights, as a director who cannot handle the pressure of making a movie while his country of Portugal is enduring a massive ...

When it comes to picking IP that's prime for adaptation, it's hard to find a story - or rather, stories - with more staying ...

Different illustrators from across history offer their fantastical interpretations of a classic tale. Among 2011′s best sort-of-children's books was a magnificent volume culling the best illustrations ...

A new twist on the old magic in the tales of the Arabian Nights. Scheherazade by Léon Samoilovitch Bakst 1896. The Tales of a Thousand and One Nights – the Arabian Nights – start with a terrible ...

Miguel Gomes’ three-part Directors’ Fortnight entry uses tall tales to offer allegorical commentary on the challenges facing his country. By Scott Roxborough Arabian Nights Film Still - H 2015 Miguel ...

The characters in the dreamy fable of memory and loneliness, "Arabian Night," are the types for whom metaphor happens while life is passing by. Almost on a dime they find themselves transported from a ...