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Title:
The devil's backbone [DVD video]
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Edition:
Director-approved two-DVD special ed.
Publication Date:
2013
Publication Information:
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
ISBN:
9781604657432
Abstract:
The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: Disc 1: Guillermo del Toro introduction; Commentary featuring writer-director Guillermo del Toro; Trailer. Disc 2: Summoning spirits (interview with Guillermo del Toro); ¿Que es un fantasma? (2004 making-of documentary); Spanish gothic (2010 interview with writer-director Guillermo del Toro conducted by Javier Soto); Director's notebook (interactive gallery includes preparatory drawings and concepts); Designing The devil's backbone (interview with the filmmaker about the initial designs and prosthetics for the characters, effects, and art direction); Deleted scenes; Sketch, storyboard, screen (compares del Toro's thumbnail sketches and Carlos Giménez's storyboards with the final film); A war of values (new interview with Sebastiaan Faber about the film's depiction of the Spanish Civil War). Insert includes an essay by critic Mark Kermode.
Performers:
Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, José Manuel Lorenzo, Paco Maestre.
Technical Details:
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (16:9, 1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.
Geographic Term:
Language:
Spanish
Additional Language:
Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Audience:
MPAA rating: R; for violence, language and some sexuality.
