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Guillermo Del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions Free FREE GUILLERMO DEL TORO CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: MY NOTEBOOKS, COLLECTIONS, AND OTHER OBSESSIONS PDF Guillermo del Toro,Marc Zicree | 263 pages | 16 May 2014 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780062082848 | English | New York, United States Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions by Guillermo del Toro Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to and Other Obsessions. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Cabinet of Curiosities by Guillermo del Toro. Marc Scott Zicree. Over the last two decades, writer-director Guillermo del Toro has mapped out Collections territory in the popular imagination that is uniquely his own, astonishing audiences with Cronos, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, and a host of other films and creative endeavors. Now, for the first time, del Toro reveals the inspirations behind his signature artistic motifs, sharing the contents of h Over the last two decades, writer-director Guillermo del Toro has mapped out a territory in the popular imagination that is uniquely his own, astonishing audiences with Cronos, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, and a host of Collections films and creative endeavors. Now, for the first time, del Toro reveals the inspirations behind his signature artistic motifs, sharing the contents of his personal notebooks, collections, and other obsessions. The and Other Obsessions is a startling, intimate glimpse into the life and mind of one of the world's most creative visionaries. Complete with running commentary, interview text, and annotations that contextualize the ample visual material, this deluxe compendium is every bit as inspired as del Toro is himself. Contains a foreword by James Cameron, an afterword by Tom Cruise, and contributions from other luminaries, including Neil Gaiman and John Landis, among others. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published October 29th by Harper Design first published More Details Other Editions 7. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Cabinet of Curiositiesplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Cabinet of Curiosities. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jul and Other Obsessions, Paquita Maria Sanchez added it Shelves: actuals-n-factualsart-collectionspitcher-books. I've officially prepared my wish for if I'm ever dying and have get? In fact, since the internet is forever, I'll just lay it all out: D. If anybody insists on a tombstone then fuck it, just Mad Lib it. Before I go, though, I've officially prepared my wish for if I'm ever dying and have get? Before I go, though, take me to this man's crazy curiohouse. It is my one dying wish after all those other wishes, especially since this book only shows just enough of the house to make you yearn and salivate. This collection is basically a "Guillermo del Toro's brain" collage, discussing his films, the Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, gorgeous notebooks he has kept throughout his career, and his mansion of a wunderkammer, or dream house, or memory room, or cabinet of curiosities. Basically, the latter is a carefully arranged and maintained, sprawling museum of mementos from sci-fi, horror, camp, and fantasy films, comics, and his own film sets and effects production work, along with a and Other Obsessions other creepy little oddities of every glorious stripe. Props, sculptures, paintings, antique books, preserved specimens, toys, costumes, vintage Disneyland set pieces, masks, miniatures, all divided up into themed rooms. That he just, ya know, hangs out in when he needs a little inspiration or whatever. Like you do. I only really envy rich people when they actually spend their money on cool shit that makes them happy and productive and inspired, instead of on, like, blow and Kangol hats and American college students to torture, or whatever it is rich people typically buy. Truffles, I think. Moving on, the bulk of the book consists of different artists' reflections on their experiences knowing and working with del Toro, inter-spliced with interviews with a man who is, goddammit, sure charming and intelligent and hilarious and humble and sorta hypnotizing for a rich dude. Collections the middle of a couple of his rants, he would slip into these wonderful little live-action book reviews about Lovecraft or Machen or Borges, all insightful stuff. Just a cool, weird dude. The best part, though, is getting to view his notebooks over the years, which are way too beautiful for me to cheap up by posting a couple of pictures from my shitty phone. I always loved Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks diary slash sketchbook style that a lot of artists embrace, almost more than the final work since it's all just so raw and tender and perfectly imperfect. Then again, I'm a and Other Obsessions, lo-fi type who prefers the ghost to the printer's proof, the contact sheet to the framed and matted print, splotches, stains, shitty recordings, broken people. And Other Obsessions of course, seeing his little sketches and scratches and scrawls was a visual delight for me. If you like any or all of that sort of stuff, check this out, even if you haven't seen all of his movies. I certainly haven't, though Pan's Labyrinth is definitely my favorite, no, The Best Adult Fairytale Film ever made, and this is a fact and that is all, have a nice day. One note on Pan's Labyrinth : In this book, the director claims he thought it was and Other Obsessions for that film to get an R-rating. Of and Other Obsessions, we could go into a whole censor police diatribe here, but if we are sticking strictly with those assholes and their decency scales, lemme tell ya: I thought that was a children's movie right up until the point where Captain Vidal starts beating some dude's face in with the butt of a pistol for what feels like, jeez, a long timeand I could barely look at it. In some magical alternate universe where that scene doesn't exceed the MPAA's PG parameters, I'm sure the movie pool as a whole is way, way cooler than here, and I want to go there to live forever and ever. Right after I go to Guillermo del Toro's house. View all 34 comments. Sep 28, Mark rated it it was amazing. I hoped that one day I would visit myself, even though I live in the UK. Alas, it has never happened. However, I was fascinated by the pictures of all the items and the rooms. There was such a variety, things hidden away in every corner. I would spend hours looking over the pictures. The reason for raising this here is that this book reminds me very much of that mansion. Coincidentally, one of those visitors to the Ackermansion was a young Guillermo del Toro. To the young del Toro it was a revelation and an inspiration. He admits here that it was something that gave him the inspiration that led to his future career. Note Collections one of his houses. The book is divided into three sections — his Bleak House collections, his movies and a final part on Unfinished Projects. Each turn of the page shows the reader something new, something delightfully ghoulish, often jawdropping. A huge bust of Frankenstein's monster overlooks the lobby. Throughout there are automatons, creepy artwork, models, severed hands and heads galore. The Notebooks section of the book looks at each of his major films chronologically, and Other Obsessions Cronos to Pacific Rim. Not only and Other Obsessions pictures of pages from his notebooks Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks with translations from the Spanish where appropriate but photographs, maps and models. Based on hours of interviews, Marc Scott Zicree, author of one of my most Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks reference books, The Twilight Zone Companion does a sterling job of interviewing Guillermo throughout, about his work and his ideas, showing us the inspirations and the love of fantasy that Guillermo clearly has. To add to this, Guillermo himself suggests four mainstays of Horror that have inspired him and some musings on Symbolist Art. Much of this is echoed by others. Mike Mignola talks of their collaborations on Blade II and the Hellboy movies, Ron Perlman tells of how del Toro persuaded him to take on a and Other Obsessions in Spanish in Cronoswhich led to bigger things and resurrected his career. John Landis writes of the Ackermansion and Bleak House. Neil Gaiman of their first meeting too, in Austin, Texas. Not only does it give you an insight into and Other Obsessions thoughts of a genre-loving director, there is enough imagery in there to inspire any budding writer or director. Or book reviewer! Mark Yon, September View all 3 comments. Guillermo del Toro is a very visual storyteller. His films are all a visual treat where every frame seems to be exquisitely crafted and they depend very little on dialogue. This interesting book offers some insight into his creative process, his ideas, and his inspirations. It starts with tour of Collections "Bleak House" where he houses all his artistic and literary collections and which he also uses as his studio. There are Collections that provide an insight into Guillermo's views on the medium of fil Guillermo Collections Toro is a very visual storyteller.
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