Guillermo del Toro likes recommending things

Tolstoi’s War and Peace. (Constance Garnett’s translation- which scholars dislike) a life-changing classic I re-read passages often. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

English. Writer & illustrator. His gauzy nightmarish art is not as well-known as his amazing books. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

Worthy useless link. 100% a thing you must see. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

Contains “The Sword and the Idol” - the ancient origin of military power and religion. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

–Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

–Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

Marco Beltrami. American. Raised by Goldsmith. Check out his scores for Homesman, 3:10 to Yuma, Mimic, Hellboy, etc. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

The spirit of the Coens hovers above the waters of this chronicle of greed turning the meek into beasts. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

Allegedly a Y.A. book retelling of campfire tales. Gammell’s art is scary as fuck. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

Dassin is a master of filmic construction and staging. The entire third act (not just the heist) is edge-of-your-seat –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

Minutely researched. Inspired by Poe’s Pym Juxtaposes dry science with cosmic dread & scale. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

Painterly beauty combined with a tremendous sense of loss. Femininity haunts Kobayashi. Perfect Takemitsu score –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

Favorite composer: Randy Newman. Amazing songwriter and composer. Poet of Pixar. His scores for Ragtime, Avalon and The Natural move me so... –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

THE LAST DAYS OF THE VICTIM by Adolfo Aristarain. Tense, elegant, cerebral and purely visual thriller w Federic Luppi as a contract killer. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) 

My favorite of his. Tender, terrible and vivid. Dahl understands the complexity & fears of a child’s mind. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

Spanish artist of Universal fame. Adored by John Howe, Wm Stout and many others. Master of light. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)

Perhaps one of the very best “children’s story” films ever made. Dazzling imagination and poignant humanism. –Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT)