The Sydney Film Festival (June 3-14) wrapped on Sunday night by awarding its top prize to “Arabian Nights,” directed by Miguel Gomes. The three part, six-hour film, which uses fiction to retell true ...

Fusing documentary and magic realism, the films take a playful look at Portugal rocked by recession. The films premiered at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes 2015. In Miguel Gomes’ three-part Arabian ...

A 3D remake of Arabian Nights will be made by The Mask director Chuck Russell, reports Variety. The $70 million-budgeted action-adventure film is to focus on a young commander teaming up with Sinbad, ...

The House of Mouse is looking toward the Middle East for its next live-action fantasy film. According to Deadline, Disney is currently developing a new project inspired by One Thousand and One Nights ...

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is working on a live action fantasy and sci-fi-infused movie inspired by the classic Middle East folk tale collection, One Thousand And One Nights, aka Arabian Nights. The Walt ...

Imagine Arabian Nights, filtered through a Sofia-Coppola-esque feminist sensibility, but spiced up with camp. That gets you some of the way into 100 Nights of Hero, a British indie romp based on a ...

Scheherazade recounts how despair haunts mankind: «O blissful King, it is said that a sorrowful judge begins to weep rather than deliver the verdict when the night of the three moons descends. A ...

A valiant prince battles an evil sorcerer to rescue his true love. The hero must overcome a number of dangers, along the way receiving help from a beautiful street urchin and a magical rose. STAR WARS ...

The Annotated Arabian Nights. Translated by Yasmine Seale. Edited by Paulo Lemos Horta. Liveright; 816 pages; $45 and £30 IT IS ONE of the world’s oldest fables, and among the most-travelled. From 8th ...