Guillermo del Toro revisits Criterion Closet picks at TIFF

Guillermo del Toro stepped into the Criterion Closet once again during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Collider reports. He presented an updated selection of nine Criterion titles he recommended.

His picks include classics such as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus, Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious, Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, the Maysles brothers’ Salesman, Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, Louis Malle’s Au Revoir Les Enfants, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (2018) and Federico Fellini’s Roma (1972). Del Toro was the first ever guest of the Criterion Closet series in 2010 and previously selected some of the same films, most notably The Red Shoes.

In the Criterion Closet video he linked several selections to his own work: he said All That Heaven Allows informed Nightmare Alley’s setups and lighting, recommended watching Salesman with “some whiskey on the rocks” and as a double feature with Glengarry Glen Ross, and called Au Revoir Les Enfants an inspiration for The Devil’s Backbone. He also noted revisiting both Cuarón’s Roma and Fellini’s Roma among his favorites.

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