Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy (2004) is showing on Mubi from May 14 - June 13, 2017 in the United Kingdom.It is hard to imagine a more perfect marriage of director and source material than Guillermo Del Toro with Hellboy. Mike Mignola’s graphic novel series about a demon put to work by the Feds could have been tailor-made for the Mexican fantasy auteur. Hellboy’s panels pit brutish monsters against mad visionaries in dank subterranean crypts, drawing on European folklore and making a fetish of clanking machinery, crumbling ruins and otherworldly magic. Mignola’s primary theme is always the past’s unshakeable hold over the present, the dead’s habit of returning to haunt the living. All of the above are the sort of gothic tropes that have recurred again and again in some form or other throughout Del Toro’s filmography too,...
- 5/19/2017
- MUBI
Jorge Gutierrez has won two Annie awards and an Emmy, but in order to get his passion project The Book Of Life (which opens tonight!) onto the screen, he needed a little help. Gutierrez found it in Guillermo del Toro. The Mexican fantasy director has been using his production company to foster new visions in genres like horror and animation. A little bit Orpheus and Euridice, a little bit Dia de Los Muertos, and a little bit musical theater, The Book Of Life is anything but ordinary.
Anne Marie here. I was lucky enough to interview Guillermo del Toro and Jorge Gutierrez when they came to San Diego Comic Con in July. But before I could even start asking questions, del Toro noticed the squid design on my necklace, and launched into a rhapsodic monologue about his favorite movie, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. From that point on, I basically just...
Anne Marie here. I was lucky enough to interview Guillermo del Toro and Jorge Gutierrez when they came to San Diego Comic Con in July. But before I could even start asking questions, del Toro noticed the squid design on my necklace, and launched into a rhapsodic monologue about his favorite movie, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. From that point on, I basically just...
- 10/16/2014
- by Anne Marie
- FilmExperience
The programme for the 20th edition of the Raindance Film Festival has been announced.
The festival will open at the London's Apollo Cinema with the international premiere of Mexican fantasy horror Here Comes The Devil on September 26 and close with the UK premiere of 7 Crates on October 7.
This year’s lineup includes 105 features and more than 138 shorts, featuring 19 world premieres and 24 directorial debuts from 38 countries.
Festival Founder Elliot Grove said: “This year’s collection of outstanding films proves that despite the difficult international economic climate, independent filmmakers continue to amaze, impress and entertain.”
Among the homegrown talent on display will be Tomi Conti starrer City Slacker, heist film Confin, starring Daisy Lowe and Christopher Payne's Love Tomorrow.
A spotlight on Quebec will include Over My Dead Body, a documentary on enfant terrible of the dance world, Dave St. Pierre who also suffers from cystic fibrosis and The...
The festival will open at the London's Apollo Cinema with the international premiere of Mexican fantasy horror Here Comes The Devil on September 26 and close with the UK premiere of 7 Crates on October 7.
This year’s lineup includes 105 features and more than 138 shorts, featuring 19 world premieres and 24 directorial debuts from 38 countries.
Festival Founder Elliot Grove said: “This year’s collection of outstanding films proves that despite the difficult international economic climate, independent filmmakers continue to amaze, impress and entertain.”
Among the homegrown talent on display will be Tomi Conti starrer City Slacker, heist film Confin, starring Daisy Lowe and Christopher Payne's Love Tomorrow.
A spotlight on Quebec will include Over My Dead Body, a documentary on enfant terrible of the dance world, Dave St. Pierre who also suffers from cystic fibrosis and The...
- 9/5/2012
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Real Steel; Don't Be Afraid of the Dark; Fright Night; X: Night of Vengeance; Girl Model
If you want to know just how thoroughly rotten Michael Bay's infernal Transformers films really are, then look no further than Real Steel (2011, Buena Vista, 12A), a guilty pleasure that demonstrates perfectly how a movie about robots hitting each other should be made. While Bay failed spectacularly over the course of three movies (a fourth instalment is, depressingly, on the way) to conjure up anything vaguely resembling either story or characters, jobbing hack Shawn Levy, whose CV includes such underwhelming fare as Night at the Museum and Date Night, hits the nail right on its metal head on both counts.
While the writing credits may acknowledge Richard Matheson's "Steel" (previously filmed as a Twilight Zone episode in 1963), this shameless crowd-pleaser owes a greater debt to the fists aloft underdog mantra of Rocky.
If you want to know just how thoroughly rotten Michael Bay's infernal Transformers films really are, then look no further than Real Steel (2011, Buena Vista, 12A), a guilty pleasure that demonstrates perfectly how a movie about robots hitting each other should be made. While Bay failed spectacularly over the course of three movies (a fourth instalment is, depressingly, on the way) to conjure up anything vaguely resembling either story or characters, jobbing hack Shawn Levy, whose CV includes such underwhelming fare as Night at the Museum and Date Night, hits the nail right on its metal head on both counts.
While the writing credits may acknowledge Richard Matheson's "Steel" (previously filmed as a Twilight Zone episode in 1963), this shameless crowd-pleaser owes a greater debt to the fists aloft underdog mantra of Rocky.
- 2/19/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Bram Stoker International Film Festival, Whitby
As a setting for Stoker's Dracula, Whitby has staked its claim on the author (sorry), and there's still a touch of gothic gloom to the Count's seaside town of choice. Which makes it the perfect place for a horror festival. Vintage horrormongers Hammer are to the fore, with classics like The Devil Rides Out and Dracula, Prince Of Darkness, a Hammer exhibition and real live Hammer heroines, all nestled among more recent, mostly untested fare from the Us and Europe. The highlight, though, is a special tribute to The Wicker Man, with director Robin Hardy introducing not just a new full-length cut of the immortal pagan classic, but also footage of his forthcoming follow-up The Wicker Tree, a movie the term "long-awaited" doesn't even begin to describe.
Whitby Pavilion, Thu to 17 Oct, see bramstokerfilmfestival.com
London Film Festival
There's always way too much going...
As a setting for Stoker's Dracula, Whitby has staked its claim on the author (sorry), and there's still a touch of gothic gloom to the Count's seaside town of choice. Which makes it the perfect place for a horror festival. Vintage horrormongers Hammer are to the fore, with classics like The Devil Rides Out and Dracula, Prince Of Darkness, a Hammer exhibition and real live Hammer heroines, all nestled among more recent, mostly untested fare from the Us and Europe. The highlight, though, is a special tribute to The Wicker Man, with director Robin Hardy introducing not just a new full-length cut of the immortal pagan classic, but also footage of his forthcoming follow-up The Wicker Tree, a movie the term "long-awaited" doesn't even begin to describe.
Whitby Pavilion, Thu to 17 Oct, see bramstokerfilmfestival.com
London Film Festival
There's always way too much going...
- 10/8/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Guillermo del Toro is certainly a busy man now that he’s been freed up from The Hobbit.
On top of the many films he has in development as director, Pajiba.com brings news that Universal Pictures and del Toro Productions are developing Midnight Delivery, which will be produced by the great man himself and Gary Ungar (Gothika).
The script, by Neil Cross (who wrote the recent BBC Idris Elba vehicle, Luther) is about a man who is forced into becoming a drug mule in order to save his son’s life.
The Mexican fantasy auteur has many projects on the go at the moment, including producing duties on thriller Julia’s Eyes and directing an adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft’s horror novel At the Mountains of Madness.
On top of the many films he has in development as director, Pajiba.com brings news that Universal Pictures and del Toro Productions are developing Midnight Delivery, which will be produced by the great man himself and Gary Ungar (Gothika).
The script, by Neil Cross (who wrote the recent BBC Idris Elba vehicle, Luther) is about a man who is forced into becoming a drug mule in order to save his son’s life.
The Mexican fantasy auteur has many projects on the go at the moment, including producing duties on thriller Julia’s Eyes and directing an adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft’s horror novel At the Mountains of Madness.
- 9/24/2010
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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