GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO 
THE SHAPE OF WATER 
NIGHTMARE ALLEY 
Guillermo del Toro echoed the words of Hayao Miyazaki when recently asked by Decider about animation created from artificial intelligence sources and machines: "It's an insult to life itself." Del Toro has been making the press rounds in support of his Netflix film "Pinocchio," a hand-crafted stop-motion movie that stands in direct opposition to machine-generated animation. “I consume and love art made by humans," del Toro said. "I am completely moved by that. And I am not interested in illustrations...
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After a career spent almost exclusively in the horror and fantasy genres, del Toro took a stab at film noir with his 2021 take on William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel “Nightmare Alley,” about a homicidal drifter (Bradley Cooper) who becomes a carnival sideshow clairvoyant. A box-office disappointment grossing just $40 million worldwide, the film still managed to garner four Oscar noms, including one for best picture. Although it was billed as a stylistic change-up for del Toro, its look, tone and themes were in line with the director’s best and best-known works, from his 1993 debut feature “Cronos” to his best picture Oscar-winning “The Shape of Water” (2017), all of which are essentially gothic fairy tales. The fairy-tale connection is more direct in his new cinematic effort, the stop-action feature adaptation “Pinocchio,” co-directed with Mark Gustafson, which drops this holiday season.
