pan’s labyrinth

  • First Draft

First Draft: 15 Outside-the-Box Screenplays That Found Box Office Success

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. While pundits will testify to…

6 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
  • 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
  • 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…

8 years ago
  • Articles - Directing
  • Interviews

The Silent Revolution: In the footsteps of The Artist, Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves Impels the Silent Film Renaissance

Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger made a name for himself with his offbeat 2003 debut feature, Torremolinos 73, about an unlikely…

11 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