Byun Hee-bong’s Choi Gong-pil is truly a heartwarming character in the series. Gong-pil found Ha-myung and decided to give ...

It is “truly enchanting” to watch traditional puppetry at a time when we’re “bombarded by artificially created images”.

For his stop-motion take on Carlo Collodi’s 1883 fable, the Mexican auteur turned to many of his frequent collaborators and craftspeople to create a grounded fantasy with some stark parallels to the ...

At least three films based on the classic story about the wooden boy were released this year. The remake of Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio on Netflix both received ...

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, ...

Guillermo del Toro's "Pinocchio" is a beautiful tour de force. Here the Mexican auteur reimagines the old tale, keeping its Italian setting but building his own world, thanks in part to the film's ...

Collodi, Italy, birthplace of the beloved wooden puppet, honors its literary roots with parks, art and global recognition.

It’s impossible to talk about Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio without considering the music. Del Toro’s Netflix adaptation of the Carlo Collodi story takes place in 1930s Italy, during the Fascist ...

Originally published as a serialized magazine story in 1881, The Adventures of Pinocchio may have been written for children, but Collodi — the pen name of seminary student-turned-author Carlo ...

Bry is a film fanatic who deeply cherishes the fantasy worlds that movies and shows allow us to escape into. The story of Pinocchio has been seen through many iterations over the 142 years since the ...

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 ...

Roberto Benigni plays the woodcutter Geppetto, who crafts a puppet to replace the son he never had, in director Matteo Garrone’s live-action adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s beloved children’s book, ...