Guillermo del Toro Articles
Guillermo del Toro “Guest Director”; Katie Holmes’ DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK Closing Night: LA Film Festival
Katie Holmes, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced Guillermo del Toro as Guest Director of its 2011 edition. Del Toro will also introduce the festival’s closing night film, Troy Nixey’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, on June 26 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 L.A. LIVE. Del Toro co-wrote the horror film’s screenplay with Matthew Robbins. Katie Holmes, [...]
PAN’S LABYRINTH Review Pt.3 – To Disobey or Not to Disobey
Sergi López in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth PAN’S LABYRINTH Review Part II But Pan’s Labyrinth belongs to Sergi López, whose military man is the epitome of the automaton that thrives in social systems demanding total obedience. Whether smashing the face of a handsome young peasant or sewing together his own sliced cheek (which makes him look like Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs), [...]
PAN’S LABYRINTH Review Pt.2 – Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones
Doug Jones, Ivana Baquero in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth PAN’S LABYRINTH Review Part I Now, I do agree that blind allegiance to authority figures — be they political, social, or cultural-religious — reduces human beings to lemmings (with my heartfelt apologies to lemmings everywhere). That said, all things being equal we should obey rules that are intended to preserve our own and others’ well-being [...]
PAN’S LABYRINTH Guillermo del Toro
EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO / PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006) Direction and screenplay: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil, Álex Angulo, Manolo Solo Oscar Movies Recommended Ivana Baquero, Pan’s Labyrinth "If you expect to get laid after this screening," Guillermo del Toro told the midnight (actually, closer to 1 a.m.) audience at the AFI FEST Los Angeles 2007 premiere [...]