A video companion to a profile of Guillermo del Toro‘s most intriguing monsters, written by New Yorker writer Daniel Zalewski.
One of my many encounters with Del Toro happened at the end of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. It was the year of Pan’s Labyrinth, of course, which I’d seen at the Star Cinema on the rue d’Antibes. Near the end of our chat I took this photo of his workbook:
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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