translated from Spanish: The films recommended by Guillermo Del Toro to watch this weekend

Mexico.- It all started with James Gunn’s spontaneous initiative to make small compilations of films of interest: first he talked about sequels that surpassed the original films and then, the 54 action films you should see before or after if you consider yourself a good lover of the genre.
Afterwards, several publications picked up the selection— much more sespiced, it must be said — by Bong Joon — Ho, who reflected on his experience in the film world through a group of films that were either his direct references or are his favorites for personal and unexplained reasons. Now it is Guillermo Del Toro who joins the trend with a Twitter thread in which he commented on his film preferences and also, of course, about his recommendations to alleviate the tedium of quarantine days.
The Mexican director, who usually use his Twitter account to conduct long and fun conversations with his fans about all kinds of topics. He asked his fans which films or series had allowed them to endure with some peace of mind and fun the days of movement restriction that in some countries already exceeded the month for a few weeks.
 “Let’s go there, but a couple of conditions before. I hope this is about things we love. Not things we hate or let us down,” he said in an attempt that the discussion be rich and interesting enough to interest any filmmaker. The result was a massive response from users who created perhaps one of the longest, funniest and most varied lists on film and television in recent months. Even at the request of the director several figures of the show were joined to complete an invaluable collection of recommendations sufficient to enjoy the best of cinema by the hand of several beloved public figures of cinema.
Of course, Del Toro began by sharing his own selection to take advantage of these long unique days: for the director it is the ideal opportunity to enjoy the work of the filmmaker Mitchell Leisen (and mentioned his special predilection for films such as A Lucky Girl or The Death of Vacation), as well as insisting that both pieces of cinema have been underestimated by an undeserved forgetfulness. He also recommended the immortal ’52 classic Singing in the Rain of Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, the magnificent and very dark season three of the Netflix series Ozark. In addition, he spent time reflecting on the visual and plotal value of curiosities and film pieces such as Luis Berlanga’s The Executioner (1963), The Employment of Ermanno Olmi or enthusiastically recommending the filmography of the French filmmaker Céline Sciamma, long before becoming an independent film celebrity thanks to the extraordinary Portrait of a Woman on Fire.
But Del Toro’s exercise via Twitter went beyond a pleasant conversation with his most staunch fans. Soon, personalities such as Darren Aronofsky commented that during quarantine he had enjoyed modern classics such as Barton Fink (1991) of the Cohen brothers, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie (2001) or that sci-fi classic b-series as is Paul Verhoeven’s Total Challenge (1990).
Original source: Hypertextual

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