Rome has the Coliseum, Venice its canals. And then there's Collodi, a tiny Tuscan town that lays claim to something just as famous: Pinocchio. Here, the boy-puppet is a giant, a patron saint, ...

Author Carlo Collodi may have drawn inspiration from one—or a few—female figures in his life Antonia Mufarech - Correspondent The Blue-Haired Fairy and the Talking Cricket try to make Pinocchio drink ...

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is the second Pinocchio movie of the year. But, while Robert Zemeckis and Disney remade its animated adaptation in live action, del Toro returned to the original Carlo ...

Of the half-dozen or so films that turned Walt Disney, in the public’s mind, from the father of Mickey Mouse to the creator of the animated fairy-tale feature—thereby making his work a fixture in the ...

Let’s play movie producer. Which of these film treatments would get your green light? No. 1: Don’t Mess with Pinocchio. A little wooden boy is led astray by his own greed and naiveté. Born poor and ...

The character of Pinocchio has been popular since the 1883 book “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi – but for most people these days, the model for the little wooden marionette who wants to ...

Remember Jiminy Cricket, the charming insect narrator of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio? He’s Pinocchio’s best friend, his moral compass, and one of the most iconic characters in the history of children’s ...

On May 14, 2024, a rumor went viral on X, claiming that the original Geppetto (misspelled in the posts) — the woodcarver in "The Adventures of Pinocchio" — was actually a "slave master," and the ...

A new version of Pinocchio is coming to a streaming platform, though it may not be the streaming platform Disney fans expected. Variety reports that Netflix backed Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of ...

This piece is drawn from “Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love,” out from FSG on February 3rd. When I was a boy I was made distinctly uncomfortable ...