Matteo Garrone
Friday, Mar. 8, 2024
Writer-director Matteo Garrone had some trepidation about making a film, which eventually became Io Capitano (Italian for I Captain), centering on a pair of impoverished African teens seeking a better life by migrating to Europe. After all, with Italian middle-class roots,...
Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020
The latest cinematic rendering of " Pinocchio, " from Italian director Matteo Garrone, is informed not by the friendly 1940 Walt Disney retelling, but the original source material. Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" is a much darker affair than the song-filled animated...