As of this week, there are three different versions of the classic fairy tale “Pinocchio” in development. No lie. First there’s Disney’s live-action remake of their 1940 animated classic. And between ...

Roberto Benigni, whose film “Life Is Beautiful” won three Oscars in 1999, has come out of the woodwork to support Matteo Garrone’s Golden Globe-nominated “Io Capitano,” which is Italy’s current Oscar ...

Matteo Garrone‘s distinctive eye for the aesthetic aspects of moviemaking combined with a drive to reveal the dark side of society, often ironically and always infused with his personal observations, ...

This year’s Palm Springs Film Festival saw not one but two international feature panel discussions hosted by The Hollywood Reporter. The first, moderated by THR’s own Kevin Cassidy, highlighted some ...

Monty Python by way of Tim Burton and “The Princess Bride,” Italian director Matteo Garrone‘s first English language feature “Tale of Tales” is a nutty compendium of outrageous fairy tales unfolding ...

Italian author Carlo Collodi’s 1883 book “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” as most everyone knows, is about a wooden puppet that yearns to be a real boy. Director Matteo Garrone’s new Italian-language ...

The Oscar-winning Italian actor made his own version of 'Pinocchio' in 2002. By Ariston Anderson Oscar-winning actor Roberto Benigni is returning to the big screen to play the role of Geppetto in ...

In the photo above, John C. Reilly and Salam Hayek play the king and queen of a small kingdom in a fairy tale land far far away. There are rock canyons a lot like the world of Gollum in “The Lord of ...

The latest from the two-time Granx Prix winning director has taken the Croisette by storm. By Ariston Anderson Matteo Garrone Headshot - H 2012 The film doesn’t leave out any of the gory details ...

Matteo Garrone’s Dogman, a deceptively simple story of a professional dogsitter’s attempt to achieve recognition among gangsters in a small Italian town, reminds me of the great “art-house” films I ...