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El espinazo del diablo [videorecording] / Agustín y Pedro Almodóvar presentan ; una producción El Deseo S.A., Tequila Gang ; una película de Guillermo del Toro ; guión, Guillermo del Toro, Antonio Trashorras, David Muñoz ; productore, Agustín Almodóvar, Bertha Navarro ; dirección, Guillermo del Toro.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2279BD | The Criterion CollectionCC2686BD-2 | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: Spanish Original language: Spanish Series: Criterion collection ; 666.Publisher: [New York] : Criterion Collection, [2013]Edition: Director-approved Blu-ray special edDescription: 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781604657425
  • 1604657421
Other title:
  • Title on container: Devil's backbone
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1997.2 .D48 2013
Production credits:
  • Editor, Luis de la Madrid ; music, Javier Navarrete ; director of photography, Guillermo Navarro.
Cast: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, José Manuel Lorenzo, Paco Maestre.Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Media/Non-print collection Media/Non-print collection Albright College Library CCM--Ask at Reference Desk DVD DVD 791.4372 E77 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31856002517215
Total holds: 0

Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.

Special features: new 2k digital film restoration, approved by director Guillermo del Toro ; 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.

Editor, Luis de la Madrid ; music, Javier Navarrete ; director of photography, Guillermo Navarro.

Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo, José Manuel Lorenzo, Paco Maestre.

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.

MPAA rating: R; for violence, language and some sexuality.

Blu-ray, 16:9 widescreen (1.85:1) aspect ratio, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1; requires Blu-ray player.

Spanish dialogue with optional English subtitles.

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