Pan’s Labyrinth director-writer Guillermo del Toro, 12 year-old star Ivana Baquero at Sunday night’s Picturehouse dinner party at Flow; Santa Barbara Film Festival director Roger Durling, Guillermo del Toro in Flow’s kitchen area — Sunday, 9.10.06, 9:05 pm. Pan’s Labyrinth won’t open until 12.29.06, which is obviously a long while from now…but it’s highly doubtful that another film this year will achieve the same special blend of magical fantasy and dark political melodrama that del Toro has concocted.
