Pinocchio

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For “Frankenstein” — his third creature movie with Del Toro, after “The Shape of Water” and “Pinocchio” — Desplat thus avoided Gothic compositions to create a counterpoint to the images, highlighting the fragility of Elordi’s Creature, who he thinks of as the core of the film.

From Los Angeles Times

When “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” and Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” won Oscars for their more adult-skewed risks, one could have attributed their victories to those directors’ fan bases.

From Los Angeles Times

The affable, movie-loving Del Toro has won many fans inside and outside the industry over the years, along with Oscars for directing and producing the 2017 best picture winner “The Shape of Water” and for “Pinocchio,” the enchanting 2022 movie that snagged animated feature.

From Los Angeles Times

Behind his desk hangs a Pinocchio puppet he made for the Walt Disney Co., and retired puppets from Highland Park’s Bob Baker Marionette Theater can also be found in Metz’s nook.

From Los Angeles Times

Disquisitions on the nature of postunification “Italianness” in the 19th century or a close reading of Carlo Collodi’s “Pinocchio” as a manifesto of Italian political childhood are fascinating but feel as if the Innocenti is merely an occasion for Mr. Luzzi to write, however lyrically, on elements of Italian history and identity vaguely pertaining to childhood.

From The Wall Street Journal