Mexican director Guillermo del Toro is one of cinema’s more striking stylists currently working. His films are aggressively visually florid, and he tends to work within a vaguely familiar fairy tale milieu, creating exciting and brisk fantasy sagas about vampires, demons, fauns, and other muddy backyard fae folk. It’s easy to compare him to Tim Burton, and not just because both enjoyed retrospectives at LACMA.…
A conversation on art, love, genius, and madness transcends the usual hothouse dialogue between critics.
