“I have three extra physical sets and I travel with an ebook version of them in my iPad. These stories started their journey with me when I was very young.”
—Guillermo del Toro on Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books
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With the most recent online trend of having AI generated images sort of resembling the art style of Studio Ghibli, nothing sums things up more than this quote by Hayao Miyazaki on similar technology from several years ago:
"I can't watch this stuff and find [it] interesting. Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever. I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all."
Which also brings to mind this quote by Guillermo del Toro, said during a conversation with the British Film Institute, where he also, interestingly enough, references Miyazaki and his work later on:
“I saw a demo of AI and I thought oh that's what people think animation is, giving prompts and the computer does it. You know, but AI has demonstrated that it can do semi-compelling screensavers. That's essentially that. The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires, it’s how much would you risk to be in its presence. How much would people pay for those screensavers? Are they going to make them cry because they lost a son? A mother? Because they misspent their youth? Fuck no!”
More personal rambling on why only human art is art here:
https://www.fringemagnet.net/2025/03/artificially-generated-colourful-empty.html
Full Guillermo del Toro video here: 
https://youtu.be/TlC9sxUu2l0?si=a2LTgwngUfSn1vvR&t=1606
As Zoe Saldana Defends ‘Emilia Perez,’ What’s Next for Mexican Cinema? https://www.inbella.com/937060/as-zoe-saldana-defends-emilia-perez-whats-next-for-mexican-cinema/ #EntertainmentNews #film #GuillermoDelToro #MEXICO
Guillermo del Toro's Picks for March | Director Picks | TCM 
From the film he considers “quintessential Hitchcock” to his favorite Peter Sellers’ performance, Guillermo del Toro shares the movies he can’t wait to watch on TCM in March.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST on March 7 at 8pm ET
THE QUIET MAN on March 17 at 8pm ET
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS available on Watch TCM
BEING THERE on March 7 at 12:30am ET
Guillermo del Toro Praises DGA Winner & Oscar Nominee ‘Porcelain War’ And Predicts Dark Times Ahead For Artists
#News #DGAAwards #GuillermoDelToro #Oscars #PGAAwards #PorcelainWar
“When Guillermo del Toro won the BAFTA for Best Director back in 2018 for THE SHAPE OF WATER, the fabulist filmmaker took the time to personally thank Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley for the inspiration she has given him throughout his life and career…. “ 
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"The main [bad] guys in Cronos, or the main guys in Blade [2], or the main guys in Hellboy, they're all structured. They can be the Nazis or the fascists in Pan's Labyrinth or they can be an industrialist in Cronos.... I hate structure. I'm completely anti-structural in terms of believing in institutions. I hate them. I hate any institutionalized social, religious, or economic thing." - My boy GdT
This is why #ThisIsAGuillermoDelToroFanAccount
Todo lo que sabemos de #Frankenstein
La próxima película de #GuillermoDelToro
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#MaryShelley #ModernPrometheus #prometheus
https://www.xarli.club/2025/01/frankenstein.html
Marisa Paredes, Almodóvar star and legend of Spanish cinema, dies aged 78 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/17/marisa-paredes-almodovar-star-and-legend-of-spanish-cinema-dies-aged-78 #GuillermodelToro #PedroAlmodóvar #Worldnews #Culture #Europe #Spain #Film
Wasn't surprised to hear that Guillermo del Toro has been praising 'The Substance', he explored very similar themes in 'The Outside' episode of his 'Cabinet of Curiosities' series. In a way, Kate Micucci's Stacey walked so Demi Moore's Elisabeth could fly. The short story 'Some Other Animal's Meat' by Emily Carroll, which 'The Outside' adapted and epxanded on, is definitely worth checking out too.
(CW for themes of body dysmorphia explored through body horror)
'Some Other Animal's Meat' comic by Emily Carroll: https://www.emcarroll.com/comics/meat/
'Before ‘The Substance,’ Check Out This 'Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities’ Episode': https://collider.com/guillermo-del-toro-cabinet-of-curiosities-the-outside/
𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻," 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟭 𝗧𝗩 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 -
Expands storyline of first novel with mixed success in SFX/makeup. Fair but predictable adventure story after the first few episodes. More gore than scare.
Today, October 9, 1962, Baltimore cleaner Elisa Esposito spends the night with an Amphibian Man the night before she plans to help him escape (The Shape of Water, 2017, dir. Guillermo del Toro)
Happy Birthday to one of the new Masters of Horror, Guillermo del Toro, who (by all accounts) is just the sweetest man you could ever meet. 
Holy movie heaven 
New pic, but most likely from Sep 20th/21st - the pic comes from this restaurant itself, as is often the case with a week's delay. Cause... that's better, as we know.
(Tom with Alejandro G. Inarritu, Guillermo del Toro, his wife Kim, Alfonso Cuaron, the Restaurant Chef Santiago Lasta @ Kol Restaurant London)
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Today I learned that Guillermo del Toro is making a #film adaptation of OG #Horror / #SciFi writer Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”.
Since he’s involved, I imagine the #movie is going to be awesome, but I wonder if it’s going to be one of those works of his that I’ll only be able to handle seeing once (e.g., “Pan’s Labyrinth”).
Sadly I've no pictures of my own but if anyone got photos of the past few days of #GuillermoDelToro's #filming #frankenstein in #edinburgh #scotland I'd be interested to see them.
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Revelado primeira foto de Oscar Isaac como Doutor Frankenstein #adaptaçãodemaryshelley #christophwaltz #cinema #drfrankenstein #filmedeépoca #frankenstein #guillermodeltoro #jacobelordi #miagoth #netflix #oscarisaac #produçãocinematográfica https://alternativanerd.com.br/filmes/revelado-primeira-foto-de-oscar-isaac-como-doutor-frankenstein
Che #GuillermoDelToro sia uno dei più geniali e visionari registi contemporanei è ormai un dato di fatto, e in questo film ce lo ricorda molto bene, omaggiando poi un genio immortale come #alfredhitchcock #CrimsonPeak infatti, è colmo di citazioni delle opere più grandi del regista inglese, e nessuna delle quali gratuita. Da #NotoriusLAmanteperduta a #Rebeccalaprimamoglie passando per #Ilsospetto e #Psyco Ma Del Toro va oltre... #unocinema #unofilm #cinema #film
https://www.valeriotagliaferri.it/crimson-peak-di-guillermo-del-toro/
