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 ...

Alwyn Hamilton realised as a young girl that Rapunzel and Cinderella weren’t real. But then there was the Arabian Nights, whose desert realms held a mysterious draw that comes with a lack of actual ...

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 ...

Like a literary phoenix, the One Thousand and One Nights – first printed in English, in 1706, as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment – has surpassed time, culture, changing fashion and even controversy ...

Marina Warner warms to the RSC's production of Arabian Nights The first translation of One Thousand and One Nights into English, under the title Arabian Nights' Entertainments, instantly sparked a ...

The latest film from acclaimed Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes (“Our Beloved Month of August,” “Tabu”) is his most ambitious work by far. Divided into three feature-length “volumes” — “The Restless One ...

After drawing raves for the tenderly eccentric “Tabu,” Portuguese director Miguel Gomes is back with a project of even greater ambition and intrigue. “Arabian Nights,” set to premiere during the ...

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie’s first adult novel in seven years, is so baffling that you have to wonder whether it’s some kind of a prank. Loosely recreating the ...