Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters
Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters
Explore the creative process behind one of the most inventive filmmakers of our generation.
In conjunction with the Mia’s special exhibition At Home with Monsters, director Guillermo Del Toro selected some of his favorite films to share with Mia visitors, presented in 35mm, and co-presented by the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul. These films were chosen to screen at Mia in conjunction with the Guillermo Del Toro – At Home with Monsters exhibition. Each film will be introduced by a special guest and will feature a pre-screening selection of vintage trailers, carefully curated by Trailer Trash.
Tickets are $5 for non-Mia members; free for My Mia members.
The Devil’s Backbone
Director: Guillermo Del Toro | 107 min | 2001 | Language: Spanish with English subtitles | Friday, March 10 at 6:30pm
One of Del Toro’s most personal and emotionally-layered films, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a young boy who is sent to a haunted rural orphanage after his freedom-fighting father is killed in the final week of the Spanish Civil War.
Frankenstein
Director: James Whale | 71 min | 1931 | Language: English | Sunday, March 26 at 2:00pm
Del Toro cites Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as one of his favorite books, and he considers Boris Karloff’s version of the doctor’s monster to be a seminal figure in the horror genre. Don’t miss a chance to see this iconic film on the big screen.
Pan’s Labyrinth
Director: Guillermo Del Toro | 119 min | 2007 | Language: Spanish with English subtitles | Friday, April 7 at 6:30pm
This Academy Award winning film encapsulates the rich visual style and genre-defying craft of Del Toro’s work. A dark fable set in the years following the Spanish Civil War, the film follows eleven-year-old Ofelia, juxtaposing a fantastical and mythical world she imagines with the violent reality in which she lives; ultimately reminding us that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
Crimson Peak
Director: Guillermo Del Toro | 119 min | 2015 | Language: English | Friday, May 5 at 6:30pm
This gothic romance was inspired by another one of del Toro’s favorite books, Jane Eyre. After a family tragedy, a young woman weds a mysterious man and moves to his crumbling manor house, a place that seems to breathe, bleed, and harbor ghosts and secrets of the past.
