Del Toro advised Gustav Mulander's “Woman's Face” subscribers, Ermanno Olmi's Vacancy, and Celine Skyamma's Water Lilies.
Together with the children, the director watches such classic films as the musical “Singing in the Rain” by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen and the thriller “Window into the Courtyard” by Alfred Hitchcock. He advised the actress, director and screenwriter Sarah Polly to show the children Brad Byrd’s animated film The Steel Giant, Hayao Miyazaki’s paintings, The Red Turtle, and the animated series Adventure Time and Gravity Falls.
In addition, the director said that he had reviewed several paintings by Mitchell Leisen (“Easy Life”, “Death Takes a Day Off”, “Midnight”, “Hold the Dawn”) and drew the attention of followers to several popular television projects - the series “Ozark” and “Better” call Saul, ”as well as the Chopped cooking show.
From literature, del Toro prefers the prose of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. The director emphasized that the works of Rulfo are the most impressive of all that was written in the Mexican language.
“This is music, a symphony that expresses our very essence, and I believe that it is almost impossible to translate or adapt,” said the director.
Del Toro also read the books of the American science fiction writer William Lindsay Gresham, author of The Alley of Nightmares.
Guillermo del Toro encouraged his colleagues to join him and write what they read and look in self-isolation. In the comments to the publication, directors Darren Aronofsky, Ryan Johnson, Scott Derrickson, screenwriters Ari Astaire, Ava Duverney, actress Sarah Polly and others told about their leisure time.
Scott Derrickson said he was obsessed with Alex Garland’s “Developed,” which was recently released on Hulu.
“This is an exciting thriller based on some very advanced scientific / philosophical theories about many worlds, and the visuals are great on it,” he wrote.
His recommendations also included Rasemon’s films by Akira Kurosawa, Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese, Blade Runner Ridley Scott, Toub Hooper's Poltergeist and David Fincher’s Seven.
Darren Aronofsky named several films that he watched in 40 days of self-isolation. Among them are the Barton Fink dramas of the Cohen brothers, “Amelie” by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, “Rashomon” by Akira Kurosawa and “Remember Everything” by Paul Verhoeven.
Aronofsky also said that he had read Henry Toro and Pablo Neruda in recent weeks, listened to KMLN and Schubert.
James Gunn has been almost home for six weeks now. He reads Malcolm Gladwell’s collection of articles “What the Dog Saw”, watches Steve Conrad’s Patriot series, and listens to Jesse Reyes' new album.