Like its predecessor, the latest attempt to turn Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose' into a coherent screen drama falls flat. By Tim Goodman Anyone with a cursory understanding of The Name of ...

Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' was made into a film starring Sean Connery in 1986. By The Associated Press Umberto Eco - Getty - H 2016 ROME (AP) — Italian author Umberto Eco, who intrigued, puzzled and ...

Franciscan monk Brother William of Baskerville is summoned to a monastery in the Italian Alps in November 1327. This remote and tranquil abbey has witnessed several murders whose brutality haunts the ...

In 1980, an Italian semiotics professor named Umberto Eco published one of those rare literary unicorns, a work of genius that nonetheless didn’t curl up and die of obscurity. The Name of the Rose, a ...

John Turturro hadn’t read Umberto Eco’s thriller “The Name of the Rose” or seen the 1986 movie when he was approached in spring of last year about a new TV adaptation. After reading the novel, one of ...

It may be a coincidence that a new television adaptation of Umberto Eco’s 1980 medieval ecclesiastic detective novel “The Name of the Rose” begins the same week that HBO’s “Game of Thrones” finished ...

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Damian Hardung plays Adso and John Turturro is William of Baskerville in "The Name of the Rose." SundanceTV “The Name of the Rose,” premiering 10 p.m. Thursday on Sundance TV, is a murder mystery set ...

Author, philosopher and semiotician Umberto Eco, the Italian novelist best known for his debut novel, the 1980 historical mystery The Name of the Rose adapted for the 1986 film starring Sean Connery ...

Umberto Eco, an Italian academic who became an unlikely best-selling author of novels like 1980’s “The Name of the Rose,” died Friday in Milan, according to a spokesperson for his American publisher, ...