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Capping a 15-year process to reach the screen, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio arrives on Netflix on Friday after a limited theatrical run.
The writer/producer/director appeared with co-director Mark Gustafson, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos and others in the cast and crew Tuesday night at the film’s New York premiere at the Museum of Modern Art. In addition to the film, which world premiered in October at the BFI London Film Festival, the event offered an early look at Crafting Pinocchio, an exhibition scheduled to open Sunday at MoMA and remain on view through next April.
“We wanted to push the boundaries of stop-motion,” del Toro told the audience, standing alongside co-director Mark Gustafson, whose credits include The Fantastic Mr. Fox. “We wanted to move away from the things that make animation confused as a genre for kids. It is not. Animation is art, and animation is film.” Citing animation legend Hayao Miyazaki’s credo about how animating the ordinary makes it extraordinary, del Toro continued, “Anybody can move the puppet, but not everybody can animate it. Anima: soul. Infuse the puppet with a soul. We don’t want motion — we want emotion.”
On the red carpet, principals posed with scale models used during the painstaking shoot, which saw crews on 60 soundstages working simultaneously to each generate a second or two of usable footage a day. (The final running time is a shade less than two hours.)
As documented by the exhibition, del Toro’s take on Pinocchio is significantly darker and earthier than the “When You Wish Upon a Star” Disney version, though it is rendered with deep feeling. It draws directly the original 1883 novel by Carlo Collodi, but shifts the action to 1930s Italy amid the rise of Mussolini.
All rise! The New York Yankees announced that Aaron Judge will become the 16th captain in the baseball team’s history, making him the first person to hold the title since Derek Jeter.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is the second Pinocchio movie of the year. But, while Robert Zemeckis and Disney remade its animated adaptation in live action, del Toro returned to the original Carlo Collodi book for a stop-motion take. It took him 14 years to bring it to life, but Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is now streaming on Netflix after it debuted December 9 and made it to the Top 10 in 79 countries.
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