Will Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”) finally join his filmmaking friends Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu in the pantheon of Oscar winners this year? If our odds are to be believed, he’s a strong front-runner to snag Best Picture, Best Director, and maybe even Best Original Screenplay for his romantic fantasy about a mute janitor (Sally Hawkins) in love with a fish man. And just think, it was a little more than a decade ago, in 2007, that the Three Amigos of Cinema, as they like to be known, were competing alongside each other for their 2006 films “Babel” (Inarritu), “Children of Men” (Cuaron) and “Pan’s Labyrinth” (del Toro). Two of them were first-time Oscar nominees that year. Now, by March 4, they could all be Oscar winners.
“There was a moment [in 2006] where we all felt like a historical weight,” del Toro recalled in our recent video interview...
“There was a moment [in 2006] where we all felt like a historical weight,” del Toro recalled in our recent video interview...
- 1/30/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Guillermo Del Toro’s gothic horror film “Crimson Peak” may have a hard time breaking into Best Picture, but that doesn’t mean voters will ignore it’s incredible craft in several below-the-line categories. With its sumptuous period detail and dazzling special effects, this creepy tale of love and bloodshed could scare up several nominations, despite underperforming at the weekend box office. -Break- The last film of Del Toro’s to tickle the academy’s fancy was “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006), which walked away with wins for Cinematography (Guillermo Navarro), Art Direction/Set Decoration (Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta) and Makeup (David Marti, Montse Ribe), and contended for Original Screenplay (Del Toro), Score (Javier Navarrate), and Foreign Language Film. With a 70% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, “Crimson Peak” may not have the universal praise of that film (it currently reta...
- 10/19/2015
- Gold Derby
Top brass at the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Los Angeles (Ficg in La) announced on Wednesday the line-up of Mexican and Latin American films at the festival, set to run from August 27-30.
Opening selection Messi from Álex de la Iglesia will receive its La premiere and chronicles the life of the Barcelona and Argentina football player Lionel Messi, regarded by many as the greatest player of all time.
The film includes informal interviews, re-enactments of key episodes in Messi’s life and footage of the player in action.
The fifth Ficg In La returns to the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and features screenings followed by Q&A’s from a selection of titles from FICG30, which ran from March 6-15 in Guadalajara, as well as other titles that have emerged since the spring festival.
All in all 13 feature and documentary films and 12 short films will be showcased. They include Chus Gutiérrez’s Colombian closing night selection...
Opening selection Messi from Álex de la Iglesia will receive its La premiere and chronicles the life of the Barcelona and Argentina football player Lionel Messi, regarded by many as the greatest player of all time.
The film includes informal interviews, re-enactments of key episodes in Messi’s life and footage of the player in action.
The fifth Ficg In La returns to the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and features screenings followed by Q&A’s from a selection of titles from FICG30, which ran from March 6-15 in Guadalajara, as well as other titles that have emerged since the spring festival.
All in all 13 feature and documentary films and 12 short films will be showcased. They include Chus Gutiérrez’s Colombian closing night selection...
- 8/12/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar Horrors continues with Michael on everyone's favorite Guillermo del Toro film
Here Lies... Pan’s Labyrinth, winner of the 2006 Oscar for Best Art Direction.
I could go through Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth a scene at a time picking out all the brilliant little details that makes its imagery so indelible, but for this post, let’s limit our focus to the film’s most famous scene: The Pale Man. The monster that has a table full of delicious food but only feeds, to use del Toro’s words, “on the blood of the innocent.” There have been thousands of scenes where one form of monster or another stalks the story’s protagonist. It is one of the basic equations of the horror genre. So what do set decorator Pilar Revuelta and art director Eugenio Cabellero do with this one that shakes the viewer on such an elemental level?...
Here Lies... Pan’s Labyrinth, winner of the 2006 Oscar for Best Art Direction.
I could go through Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth a scene at a time picking out all the brilliant little details that makes its imagery so indelible, but for this post, let’s limit our focus to the film’s most famous scene: The Pale Man. The monster that has a table full of delicious food but only feeds, to use del Toro’s words, “on the blood of the innocent.” There have been thousands of scenes where one form of monster or another stalks the story’s protagonist. It is one of the basic equations of the horror genre. So what do set decorator Pilar Revuelta and art director Eugenio Cabellero do with this one that shakes the viewer on such an elemental level?...
- 10/9/2012
- by Michael C.
- FilmExperience
“Small village, big hell.”—old Basque proverb.
Frequent startle jolts in Isidro Ortiz’s Eskalofrío (Shiver) are determined to make you yelp outloud, even if perhaps a little too obviously. Yet another film that I first heard about on Twitch, Shiver premiered in the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale to tepid critical response. Expectation factored heavily as audiences went into the film assuming it to be a horror flick when, in truth, it’s more a competent thriller with some horror tropes deferentially approached though never fully developed. Few disagree that the film is professionally mounted, the performances solid, and that it respectfully carries on the tradition of Spanish “horror” films like The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth and The Orphanage, borrowing—in fact—teenage actor Junio Valverde from Backbone, Labyrinth‘s Oscar-winning set designer Pilar Revuelta, and The Orphanage‘s composer Fernando Velázquez to firm up its genre pedigree.
Frequent startle jolts in Isidro Ortiz’s Eskalofrío (Shiver) are determined to make you yelp outloud, even if perhaps a little too obviously. Yet another film that I first heard about on Twitch, Shiver premiered in the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale to tepid critical response. Expectation factored heavily as audiences went into the film assuming it to be a horror flick when, in truth, it’s more a competent thriller with some horror tropes deferentially approached though never fully developed. Few disagree that the film is professionally mounted, the performances solid, and that it respectfully carries on the tradition of Spanish “horror” films like The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth and The Orphanage, borrowing—in fact—teenage actor Junio Valverde from Backbone, Labyrinth‘s Oscar-winning set designer Pilar Revuelta, and The Orphanage‘s composer Fernando Velázquez to firm up its genre pedigree.
- 9/26/2008
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
Dark Sky Films has announced an October 28th DVD release date for their Spanish horror film Shiver, which follows Santi, a bullied teen who suffers from a rare and violent allergy to sunlight. When his condition worsens, he and his mother are forced to move to a remote village in the mountains. His arrival marks the beginning of a series of brutal slayings. Something is alive deep in the shadowy forest. Can a frightened outcast find safety in the darkness or does the ultimate terror wait in the most unexpected place of all? Francesc Orella and Mar Sodupe co-star in this chilling Spanish horror thriller from acclaimed director Isidro Ortiz (Fausto 5.0) and featuring art direction by Pilar Revuelta, Oscar® winner for Pans Labyrinth.
- 8/31/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
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