Could someone in the UK please youtube this, so us Brits presently out of the country can see it too, please??

Dear Mark,

I would like to watch this interview.(Here in Brasil)..I love Guillermo del Toro.

Thanks

I love Guillermo Del Toro, he seems like a genuinely nice guy and he's always interesting to listen to. Now that I know he watches The Wire, he gone up even more in my estimation.



However I am a little annoyed he's making two films of The Hobbit. Ever since the whole Kill Bill fiasco I've decided to boycott any film split in two as I refuse to pay twice to see one film. For instance I only saw Grindhouse in its full form, both parts of Che in one screening and I refuse to see Harry Potter 7 despite my enjoyment of the franchise. However Guillermo is such a artistically motivated filmmaker that I can't for one moment believe he's splitting the film in two for financial reasons or at the studios and/or Peter Jacksons request. I don't know what to do now.

Having just recently joined your blog and being a huge fan of yours for some time, I just wanted to talk about my recent experience of going to the multiplex.



For my sins, I went to see Transformers 2 during the day a few weeks back on my own. Being rained off (I am a self employed window cleaner) I decided to while away a couple of hours at my local multiplex. God, what a mistake.

I came out of the screening 3 hours later utterly shell shocked at just how truly terrible that film was. I've seen porn movies that show far more respect to women than that did. What troubles me even more was the fact that it was a 12A. Now I have 2 girls aged 9 and 8. I would have had to leave and demanded my money back if I had taken them to see it. I cannot understand how the BBFC can possibly justify the rating they gave that film, other than to collude with the studio in order to maximise bums on seats.



Furthermore, after the furore surrounding The Dark Knight being a 12A and its depictions of knives etc, it amazes me no one has bought up the subject of Michael Bay's portrayal of women in Transformers. That to me is far more dangerous and offensive than anything in Batman.

Just realised I posted the above in the wrong section.



Many apologies.

Nice to see you dressed for the occassion Mark :) Very smart.

I love Guillermo Del Toro, first time I saw "Pan's Labyrinth", I cried myself to sleep. I was a fan ever since I saw Hellboy on a imported dvd of it and have seen all this films now etc.



The first time a email of mine read up on Mark's show was when Mark was out of town and Mayo was interviewing Guillermo! and I wrote how much I love him giving Ron Perlman really great roles.

I can't wait for The Hobbit film to be released. It will be very interesting to see middle earth with a del Toro twist.

The word Auteur is often attached to various Directors and sometimes is deserved (rarely). Having followed GDT's career and filmography I can only say thank you to the cosmos that we have a true bonafide auteur in our midst. Passionate, a true creative in every sense of the word, intelligent and so on. (Don't want to sound too sycophantic). A true anti-dote to the american film factories and the talentless hacks (I think we all know who they are) that direct and produce their poisonous and more often than not pointless output. I have complete trust in GDT and his story telling in so far as to never have to read a review of his work, I will watch it whatever and am never disapointed. Pans Labyrinth was truly a landmark for me of the last 15-20 years and yet the thing is, I am sure the best is yet too come!!! That is what cinema should be about, to instil magic, mystery, wonder, excitement, the unknown... I could go on. And just one thing Dr Kermode that I must disagree on (I usually concur on most things) Indy IV sucked on a a teutonic gophering scale!!!!!!!! Discuss?

Oh and one more thing, regarding the Exorcist defintely up there in the top ten but think the book is much better than the film. Adios.

Sorry about spelling, been a long day!

I am a massive del Toro fanboy. He is a modern master, a brilliant artist, who manages to make great art and simultaneously appreciate pulp and trash, sometimes synthesizing the highbrow and the lowbrow into a brilliant alchemic whole. It saddens me so that that I can't see this interview :(.