Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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Watch the trailer for Three Thousand Years of Longing, adapted from the title story of A. S. Byatt’s collection of fairy tales for adults, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (Random House, 1997), directed by George Miller and starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton.
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Tale of Tales is a film adaptation based on the Pentamerone, a seventeenth-century publication of fairy tales collected by Italian poet Giambattista Basile, which contains the earliest versions of stories such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty. Directed by Matteo Garrone, the film stars Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, and John C. Reilly.
Tags: movie trailer | 2016 | Tale of Tales | Pentamerone | fairy tales | Giambattista Basile | Fiction