Photo:Courtesy Niko Tavernise/20th Century/Everett Collection Guillermo del Toro was a big fan of Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” remake, describing it as “pure, uncut cinema.” In a lengthy Twitter thread breaking down one of the film’s most complex sequences, he praised the film as “Heisenberg-level He had particular praise for Spielberg’s advanced camera techniques, adding […]

Photo: Handmade Films/Kobal/Shutterstock Terry Gilliam’s 1981 cult fantasy movie “Time Bandits” kicked off his “Trilogy of Imagination,” which would continue with his legendary “Brazil” (1985) and end with the more polarizing “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (1988). Del Toro has a special love for “Time Bandits,” telling Criterion. “There is an incredible humor, an incredible […]

Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” clearly resonated with Guillermo del Toro, as he listed the Japanese film as his favorite movie in 2010. While there are no monsters to be found in the film, it’s not exactly realism either, and its foggy, mysterious setting helps keep the focus on […]

The film was directed by Al Hicks, the Australian Grammy-winning director of the music docus, Keep On Keepin On and Quincy.