Did you know that the Italian Cinderella murdered her stepmother? Or that Sleeping Beauty had twins before marrying the prince? Or that the cats in Italian Puss-in-Boots stories were female? While ...

Italian director Alice Rohrwacher, whose “The Wonders” and “Happy as Lazzaro” are both Cannes prizewinners, will direct her first TV series that, similarly to her fable-like films, will explore the ...

A series of film-showings and talks this fall will highlight one of the most highly regarded fairy tale collections in the country, which is held by the Special Collections Department in the ...

Here's a fairy tale for you: A middle-aged, hard-working, sometimes lonely chef goes to Venice on a working trip. Everyone, she notes, is in love with Venice, "except me." But while this skeptic is ...

We've got Italian cookbooks, Italian TV shows and Italian hit stage shows, like "Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding." Why not, then, an Italian version of Cinderella? Produced by the New York State Theatre ...

With 2015’s richly inventive and dark group of classic children’s stories, Tale of Tales, on his filmography, director Matteo Garrone now brings his uniquely baroque touch to the ultimate Italian ...