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| Guillermo
del Toro |
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| Director
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| 1964 - |
| Born October 9,
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
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Production Countries: USA, Mexico |
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Genres: Horror,
Gothic Film,
Fantasy |
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Collaborators:
Guillermo Navarro (Cinematographer),
Ron Perlman (Leading Player), Bertha Navarro (Producer), Federico Luppi
(Leading Player), Marco Beltrami (Composer), Doug Jones (Character
Player), Peter Amundson (Editor), Javier Navarrete (Composer), Carol Spier
(Production Designer), Karel Roden (Character Player) |
| Worth
a Look: Cronos
(1992), The Devil's Backbone (2001), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth
(2006) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Del Toro Films ] [ Film
Monthly Interview (2002) ] [
GreenCine
Interview (2006) ] [
Film Monthly Interview (2006) ] [
The Independent Article (2006) ] [
Sight & Sound
Interview (2006) ] [
Horror
Directors Profile ] [
Philadelphia Daily News Article (2006) ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
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"Guillermo
del Toro's part in the current renaissance in contemporary
Mexican cinema is evidenced by such recent successes as
Amores Perros (2000) has been pivotal...Displaying a
sensibility that errs toward the subversive, he establishes a
personal, visual style in which dark, gothic and often
subterranean interiors are shot with precision and a highly
attuned sense of colour and composition." -
(Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002) |
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"It
would be a cliché to say that, because I am a Mexican, I see
death in a certain way. But I have seen more than my share of
corpses, certainly more than the average First World guy. I
worked for months next to a morgue that I had to go through to
get to work. I've seen people being shot; I've had guns put to
my head; I've seen people burnt alive, stabbed, decapitated ...
because Mexico is still a very violent place. So I do think that
some of that element in my films comes from a Mexican
sensibility." -
Guillermo del Toro |
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"Born
in Guadalajara, Mexico, and raised by his staunchly Catholic
grandmother, del Toro was already involved in filmmaking by his
teens. A fan of such horror masters as
James Whale, Mario Bava,
George A. Romero,
Alfred Hitchcock, and the work
of Britain's Hammer Films, del Toro learned about makeup and
effects from The Exorcist's Dick Smith as well as
studying screenwriting and making Super-8, 16 mm, and 35 mm
short films." -
Lucia Bozzola (All-Movie Guide) |
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