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 ...

We’ve been coming to Arabian Nights for years. And, frankly, I loved the almost Disneyland- ish interior, like something out of, well, “Aladdin.” Sitting beneath the painted murals of deep-blue night ...

Miguel Gomes’ Our Beloved Month of August and its ecstatically received follow-up, Tabu, showcased the director’s love of storytelling as a means of contemplating reality. In these films, by ...

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 ...

First devised during the Gulf War 16 years ago, Mary Zimmerman's revived "The Arabian Nights" arrives at another moment when some positive appreciation of Islam and the Arabic world is particularly ...

How many of the “1001 Nights” were Jewish ones? Last month marked the bicentenary of the birth of Richard F. Burton, the Victorian translator of “The Arabian Nights,” or “1001 Nights,” the medieval ...