Pan's Labyrinth Articles

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), [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

At indieWIRE, Peter Knegt's "For Your Consideration: 25 Things The Academy Got Right In The 2000s." Here are three snippets: 6 nominations and 3 wins for Pan’s Labyrinth (above, with Maribel Verdú and Ivana Baquero) "… still managed to defy Academy tastes by taking the second most wins of any film in 2006 (after The Departed) and third most nominations …" 8 nominations and 2 [...]