Word: guillermo
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...Carlos Reygadas' name is rarely mentioned when journalists write about the new surge of Mexican cinema; they usually cite the three amigos: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo Del Toro. Yet Reygadas, 36, has made the biggest noise at international film festivals and among the more intellectual critics. His Japon and Battle in Heaven won praise for their filmmaking rigor, caustic view of Mexico's social ills and often frank take on sex. With his competition film Stellet Licht (Silent Light), Reygadas shocks again: this drama of a Mennonite community in northern Mexico contains no explicit hanky-panky...
...That's the urgent odor that this year attached itself to The Orphanage, a Spanish thriller written by Sergio G. Sanchez, directed by first-timer Juan Antonio Bayona and shown in the little-attended Critics' Week section. The movie does have a pedigree: it was executive-produced by Guillermo Del Toro, the Mexican filmmaker whose Pan's Labyrinth had its world premiere at last year's festival before becoming a surprise hit and an Oscar-winner in the States. The Orphanage has the same vital vibe: the sense that all crafts of filmmaking are bent to leading us into another...
Spain in the war-torn '40s is the setting for this anti-Franco, pro-magic fairy tale. If you were wondering what all the critical rapture and Oscar nominations were about, make your move now. Guillermo del Toro's fable is definitely not for kids, but it is a fable--about a child (Irana Baquero, above) who escapes from real nightmares into an eerie, fulfilling wonderland--that is as potent and scary as the great early Disney cartoon features. Except there is no happy ending...
...Freedom Fighters: The Spanish Civil War on Film.” The film series marks the 71st anniversary of the conflict. Comprised of factual and fictional films, it includes dramatic renderings of the civil war, such as “Pan’s Labyrinth” director Guillermo del Toro’s “El Espinazo del Diablo” (“The Devil’s Backbone”) as well as documentaries such as “El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War” and “The Good...
...Three Mexican directors were nominated for Oscars this year: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel, Alfonso Cuaron for Children of Men and Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth. Why the sudden recognition of these filmmakers...