In the Labyrinth: A Conversation with Guillermo del Toro
Oct 07 8:00pm PT
In the Labyrinth
Wed, 10/07/2015 - 20:00

Samuel Goldwyn Theater
8949 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA 90212

The Academy Museum is partnering with the Getty Research Institute’s Art on Screen on a series of public programs that bring together renowned filmmakers, artists, and scholars to explore aspects of contemporary visual culture. The first programs in the series will focus on two groundbreaking directors: Guillermo del Toro and Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Presented by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and the Getty Research Institute’s Art on Screen


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A Conversation with Guillermo del Toro

"I was fortunate to live in a very strange time." Those words offered a key to the cinematic universe of Guadalajara-born filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, who was bitten with the movie bug as a young child and took Dick Smith’s Advanced Professional Makeup Course before writing and directing his stylish indie debut film, Cronos, which combined vampirism and alchemy in modern Mexico. Since then, Del Toro has switched between lavish Hollywood spectacles and dark, war-torn fables about children losing their innocence. His more action-oriented films include the apocalyptic chiller Mimic, the martial-arts adventure Blade II, the hard-boiled Hellboy series and the monster vs. robots mashup Pacific Rim, while his more fable-like films include the Spanish Civil War ghost story The Devil’s Backbone and the Oscar-winning Pan’s Labyrinth. Joined  by Academy Museum director Kerry Brougher on October 7, 2015 at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, del Toro shared his thoughts on the magic of fiction, showed dazzling artifacts from his films, and explored the enduring appeal of watching fantastic cinema in a darkened theater.