Guillermo del Toro

  • Movie News

Cate Blanchett Voices the Monkey in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, and She Calls It Her Spirit Animal

When Guillermo del Toro and Cate Blanchett worked together on Nightmare Alley, they had such a good time shooting that…

1 year ago
  • Movie News

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Spooky First Look Is ‘Beautiful and Horrible at Exactly the Same Time’ (Video)

It's only August, but Guillermo del Toro is already gearing up for Halloween. The iconic director of The Shape of…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

Denis Villeneuve, Director X and Other Canadian Moviemakers Offer Advice to Their Early Selves

Dune director Denis Villeneuve has a simple response to MovieMaker's prompt regarding what advice he'd give his early self who…

2 years ago
  • The Rundown

Pinocchio Teaser; Sundance Recos and a Surprise; How Lucy and Desi Made TV

The first teaser for Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion Pinocchio is here; a secret Sundance documentary has been revealed and the…

2 years ago
  • Directing

Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2018: Academy Award-Nominated Directors Get Candid About Their Films

With three titans of cinema and two of the most acclaimed and promising debutants in years in attendance, it was…

6 years ago
  • Crossing the Line

Gentle Heart, Gruesome Imagination: Tobe Hooper (January 25, 1943—August 26, 2017)

Tobe Hooper gave me my start in the business. We had the same agent, and he invited my writing partner/now-wife…

6 years ago
  • Directing

The Shape of Water: Del Toro Likes Digital, Octavia Spencer Quits Period Pieces, Guy in the Fish Suit Deserves an Oscar

High on the list of the greatest contributions Mexico has given to the world, Guillermo del Toro’s monster-fueled mind exudes…

6 years ago
  • Best Of

The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018

The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

“Trimming the Fat”: A Slimmer TIFF 2017 Lineup Still Offers a Robust Selection of Quality Programming

This year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) chose to cut the number of films it opted to include in…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Context and Conversation: The Discourse within Telluride’s Programming

It is a common feature of film festivals for the selections in the program to be conversant with one another.…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Pleasure and Pain in Guanajuato: Amat Escalante’s The Untamed is an Unusual Sort of Creature Feature

Three years ago, acclaimed Mexican director Amat Escalante and I sat down over coffee in Downtown Los Angeles to discuss…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Canoa Revisited: Felipe Cazals on His 1976 Masterpiece, Mexican History, Horror Storytelling and Politics in Filmmaking

In the interim between a Golden Age bogged down with melodramas, stereotypical treatments of masculine and pastoral glorification, and the…

7 years ago
  • Movie News

Two Against the World: Watch the Mothers and Sons of J.A. Bayona’s Films Face Life’s Hardships Side By Side (Video)

Since he burst onto the international moviemaking scene in 2007, J.A. Bayona has never shied away from injecting sentimentality into…

7 years ago
  • Criterion Crash Course

Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons from Criterion’s Trilogía de Guillermo del Toro

Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is…

7 years ago
  • Screenwriting

First Draft: Lessons in Screenplay Plants and Payoffs from Chinatown and The Orphanage

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, "First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. “Bad for glass,” says private eye…

8 years ago
  • Articles - Cinematography

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Guillermo Navarro

For decades, cinematographer Guillermo Navarro has imbued the cinematic universes of Guillermo del Toro, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino and more…

17 years ago