Comments on: Pan’s Labyrinth http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/20/pans-labyrinth/ the funk is its own reward Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:53:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jürgen fauth’s muckworld » Muckworld Roundup http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/20/pans-labyrinth/comment-page-1/#comment-4657 jürgen fauth’s muckworld » Muckworld Roundup Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:23:06 +0000 http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/20/pans-labyrinth/#comment-4657 [...] Pan’s Labyrinth. Guillermo del Toro’s masterful fairy tale won’t be out until after Christmas, but this is one film you should feel free to get excited about early. [...] [...] Pan’s Labyrinth. Guillermo del Toro’s masterful fairy tale won’t be out until after Christmas, but this is one film you should feel free to get excited about early. [...]

]]> By: Jürgen http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/20/pans-labyrinth/comment-page-1/#comment-4642 Jürgen Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:21:04 +0000 http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/20/pans-labyrinth/#comment-4642 We saw this again yesterday, and I'll take back what I said about the plot--it's plenty fresh, within the confines of the monomyth. This time, it struck me as both more cruel and more hopeful than the first time around. This is going to open after Christmas, and it'll be interesting to see how Picturehouse is going to market it, or what kind of rating the MPAA will slap on it. It's certainly not a children's movie by modern standards. Then again, by those standards, the Brothers Grimm are way too grim for children, too. Marcy adored it. We saw this again yesterday, and I’ll take back what I said about the plot–it’s plenty fresh, within the confines of the monomyth. This time, it struck me as both more cruel and more hopeful than the first time around. This is going to open after Christmas, and it’ll be interesting to see how Picturehouse is going to market it, or what kind of rating the MPAA will slap on it. It’s certainly not a children’s movie by modern standards. Then again, by those standards, the Brothers Grimm are way too grim for children, too.

Marcy adored it.

]]> By: jürgen fauth’s muckworld » Blade 2 http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/20/pans-labyrinth/comment-page-1/#comment-4623 jürgen fauth’s muckworld » Blade 2 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:59:15 +0000 http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/09/20/pans-labyrinth/#comment-4623 [...] I’m not sure what I was thinking–I must have rented this Wesley Snipes/Vampire thing to counteract NYFF-induced art house overload, or perhaps to get a better grip on director Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, which is showing at the festival and which I liked a lot. Either way, I suppose filmmaking for 12-year-old boys has come a long way–but it’s still filmmaking for 12-year-old boys. [...] [...] I’m not sure what I was thinking–I must have rented this Wesley Snipes/Vampire thing to counteract NYFF-induced art house overload, or perhaps to get a better grip on director Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, which is showing at the festival and which I liked a lot. Either way, I suppose filmmaking for 12-year-old boys has come a long way–but it’s still filmmaking for 12-year-old boys. [...]

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