Matteo Garrone's 2019 live-action Pinocchio film marked an attempt to deliver a grittier, more "realistic" take on the ...

In his book Eminent Jews, David Denby provides engaging, informative, insightful, mostly, but not entirely, celebratory ...

In Life is Beautiful, starting out with Guido and Giosuè being taken to the concentration camps, we’re introduced to our lead ...

There’s just something about World War II that keeps drawing filmmakers back in. Maybe it’s the sheer chaos of it, or the way it pushed people to their limits, morally, emotionally, everything.

Director/actor Roberto Benigni used humor to mock the horrific practices of Nazis. One example was when his character, Guido, gave a fake translation of the Nazi’s orders to protect his son ...

Early on in beloved animation director Sylvain Chomet ’s “A Magnificent Life” (French title “Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol”), ...

Finally, this is one of those movies that truly creates a pit of hollowness and despair after the movie ends on a deeply tragic note. Starring Jennifer Connelly, Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn, and others, ...

How you wish Chomet had dipped his toes in the emotional maximalism of films with sunny temperaments, such as Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful.” A brief scene in the middle after Pagnol ...

and early on in his career was a co-producer on the cult 1986 Jim Jarmusch movie Down by Law starring Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni and John Lurie.

These include Roberto Benigni's two-Oscar-winning tragicomedy "Das Leben ist schön" or the novel adaptation "Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama". In 2023, Jonathan Glazer addressed this topic with ...