Guillermo del Toro’s Adventures in Moviegoing
23 Episodes
The Oscar-winning director of THE SHAPE OF WATER and PAN’S LABYRINTH sat down with MYTHBUSTERS’ Adam Savage to talk about the cinematic inspirations that fuel his flights of phantasmagoria—and to introduce some of his favorite films.
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25:58Episode 1
Guillermo del Toro in Conversation
Episode 1
The Oscar-winning director of THE SHAPE OF WATER on a lifetime of moviegoing
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02:01Episode 2
Guillermo del Toro on LA CHIENNE
Episode 2
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1:36:06Episode 3
La chienne
Episode 3
Directed by Jean Renoir • 1931 • France
Starring Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges FlamantJean Renoir's ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter THE RULES OF THE GAME, displaying all of the filmmaker's visual genius and fully imbued wit...
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02:02Episode 4
Guillermo del Toro on VAMPYR
Episode 4
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Vampyr
Episode 5
Directed by Carl Th. Dreyer • 1932 • France, West Germany
Starring Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena MandelWith VAMPYR, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer channeled his genius for creating mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, unsettling imagery into the horror genre. The result—a chilling film...
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Guillermo del Toro on THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Episode 6
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1:16:04Episode 7
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Episode 7
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1934 • United Kingdom
Starring Peter Lorre, Leslie Banks, Edna BestAn ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassina...
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Guillermo del Toro on BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Episode 8
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1:33:49Episode 9
Beauty and the Beast
Episode 9
Directed by Jean Cocteau • 1946 • France
Starring Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila ParélyJean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairy-tale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast—is a landmark of motion picture f...
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02:21Episode 10
Guillermo del Toro on EYES WITHOUT A FACE
Episode 10
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1:30:19Episode 11
Eyes Without a Face
Episode 11
Directed by Georges Franju • 1960 • France
Starring Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, François GuérinAt his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—a...
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02:13Episode 12
Guillermo del Toro on VIRIDIANA
Episode 12
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Viridiana
Episode 13
Directed by Luis Buñuel • 1961 • Spain
Starring Silvia Pinal, Fernando Rey, Francisco RabalBanned in Spain and denounced by the Vatican, Luis Buñuel’s irreverent vision of life as a beggar’s banquet is regarded by many as his masterpiece. In it, novice nun Viridiana does her utmost to maintain ...
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03:44Episode 14
Guillermo del Toro on KWAIDAN
Episode 14
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Kwaidan
Episode 15
Directed by Masaki Kobayashi • 1965 • Japan
Starring Rentaro Mikuni, Keiko Kishi, Katsuo NakamuraAfter more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of...
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Guillermo del Toro on THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE
Episode 16
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1:38:56Episode 17
The Spirit of the Beehive
Episode 17
Directed by Víctor Erice • 1973 • Spain
Starring Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería, Fernando Fernán GómezCriterion is proud to present Víctor Erice’s spellbinding THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (EL ESPÍRITU DE LA COLMENA), widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian vi...
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Guillermo del Toro on CANOA: A SHAMEFUL MEMORY
Episode 18
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1:55:08Episode 19
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Episode 19
Directed by Felipe Cazals • 1976 • Mexico
Starring Enrique Lucero, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Rodrigo PueblaOne of Mexico's most highly regarded works of political cinema, CANOA: A SHAMEFUL MEMORY reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release, when a group of ur...
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02:39Episode 20
Guillermo del Toro on TIME BANDITS
Episode 20
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1:56:11Episode 21
Time Bandits
Episode 21
Directed by Terry Gilliam • 1981 • United Kingdom
Starring John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley DuvallIn this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. Armed with a map...
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02:02Episode 22
Guillermo del Toro on BLOOD SIMPLE
Episode 22
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1:35:39Episode 23
Blood Simple
Episode 23
Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen • 1984 • United States
Starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan HedayaJoel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases...