Trilogía de Guillermo del Toro (The Criterion Collection Blu-ray) [USA]

[PunkNinja]

Release date: October 11, 2016
Purchase links: Amazon - Criterion
Price: $79.99 $65.20 (Amazon) - $79.96 (Criterion)

Spoiler

Throughout a career that encompasses both visually arresting art-house hits and big-budget Hollywood spectacles, director Guillermo del Toro has continually redefined and elevated the horror genre with his deeply personal explorations of myths and monsters. These three Spanish-language films, each a tale of childhood in troubled times, showcase his singular fusion of the fantastic and the real. Drawing inspiration from a rich variety of sources, from Alfred Hitchcock to Francisco de Goya, the gothic-infused stories collected here—populated by vampires, ghosts, and a fairy-tale princess—make evident why del Toro is considered the master cinematic fabulist of our time.

Collector’s Set Includes

CRONOS
Guillermo del Toro 1993
Guillermo del Toro made an auspicious, audacious feature debut with Cronos,a highly unorthodox tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality.Cronos is a dark, visually rich, and emotionally captivating fantasy.

THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE
Guillermo del Toro 2001
Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.

PAN’S LABYRINTH
Guillermo del Toro 2006
An Academy Award–winning dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Pan’s Labyrinth encapsulates the rich visual style and genre-defying craft of Guillermo del Toro.


Director-Approved Collector's Set:

• High-definition digital restoration of Cronos, 2K digital restoration of The Devil’s Backbone, newly graded 2K digital master of Pan’s Labyrinth, all supervised and approved by director Guillermo del Toro, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack for Cronos and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks for The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth on the Blu-rays
• Alternate DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 surround soundtrack for Pan’s Labyrinth on the Blu-ray
• Audio commentaries on all three films
• Interviews with del Toro, director of photography Guillermo Navarro, and actors Doug Jones, Federico Luppi, and Ron Perlman
• Welcome to Bleak House, a 2010 video tour by del Toro of his personal collections
• New piece on Pan’s Labyrinth featuring del Toro and novelist Cornelia Funke
• Interactive director’s notebooks for The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth
• Making-of documentaries for The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth
• Geometria, a 1987 short horror film by del Toro finished in 2010
• Footage of actor Ivana Baquero auditioning for Pan’s Labyrinth in 2005
• Original Spanish-language voice-over introduction for Cronos
• Introductions by del Toro for The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth
• Deleted scenes from The Devil’s Backbone, with commentary by del Toro
• Selected on-screen picture-in-picture presentation of del Toro’s thumbnail sketches for The Devil’s Backbone
• Programs comparing del Toro’s thumbnail sketches and production storyboards for The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth with the final films
• Piece on The Devil’s Backbone’s depiction of the Spanish Civil War
• Animated comics featuring prequel stories for the creatures of Pan’s Labyrinth
• Gallery of stills from Cronos, captioned by del Toro
• Trailers and TV spots
• English subtitle translations approved by del Toro
• Deluxe box set for the Blu-ray, featuring new illustrations by Vania Zouravliov
• Blu-ray: A 100-page hardcover book featuring an introduction by author Neil Gaiman and essays by critics Michael Atkinson, Mark Kermode, and Maitland McDonagh, along with production notes and sketches by del Toro and illustrators Carlos Giménez and Raúl Monge
• DVD: Essays by Atkinson, Kermode, and McDonagh, and production notes for Cronos by del Toro
• New designs by Vania Zouravliov (Blu-ray) and Guy Davis (DVD)

 

[Sigill]

Thanks for the pics @dan8885, that's a beautiful looking set!

 

[bloodsnake007]

There's a live video from Criterioncast at Instagram where they opened this Boxset. It opens to all sides. I tried to do some Screenshots. The right side and bottom side was impossible to snap in the short time.

What a beautiful Boxset @PunkNinja @tridon @C.C. 95 @digitalbabe @kryptonite @bloodsnake007 @Sigill @sminister

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Absolutely stunning! Thanks @dan8885!

 

[zoltan_g]

Thanks, @dan8885!
More pictures HERE.
The set looks pretty great, but I don't really fancy the tight papersleeves for the discs.
I am happy with my individual copies so far. Might be tempted when next B&N sale kicks in...

 

[dan8885]

Thanks, @dan8885!
More pictures HERE.
The set looks pretty great, but I don't really fancy the tight papersleeves for the discs.
I am happy with my individual copies so far. Might be tempted when next B&N sale kicks in...

That looks amazing. Thanks for the pictures
I'll also get it with the next 50 % off sale at B&N. Should be in November I think.

 

[kryptonite]

That looks amazing. Thanks for the pictures
I'll also get it with the next 50 % off sale at B&N. Should be in November I think.

Same here. I will wait for the sale. If I have the money, I will buy this set and the individual sets.

 

[PunkNinja]

Awesome. @dan8885 Same concept as

Slayer: Repentless Box

and Wu Xing Collection

 

[PunkNinja]

That looks amazing. Thanks for the pictures
I'll also get it with the next 50 % off sale at B&N. Should be in November I think.

I need to source this as well cause it looks like it will easily get damage through the mail. I just don't trust B&N's packing.

 

[famagosta]

Easy pick-up for me! Regardless of the upcoming B&N sale, what -- in your experience -- has proved as the best shipping service for Criterion releases, in terms of packing and protection of the content? Criterion itself, Amazon or B&N?

 

[dan8885]

I need to source this as well cause it looks like it will easily get damage through the mail. I just don't trust B&N's packing.

For me theres no other choice to get 50 % off and affordable shipping cost then the B&N sale. But shipping is really bad like you said.
I bought already 10 empty Scanavo Keep Cases to exchange the ones coming from B&N sale if theres any damage
Luckily my Boxsets arrived all okay like Zatoichi. I'll try my luck...

 

[dan8885]

 

[C.C. 95]

I need to source this as well cause it looks like it will easily get damage through the mail. I just don't trust B&N's packing.

Hit the Bricks and Mortar store.

 

[dan8885]

Designing for del Toro

Criterion art director Eric Skillman details the process of creating artwork for our editions of Guillermo del Toro’s trilogy.

Spoiler: Story with great pictures

Guillermo del Toro has worked with an incredibly deep bench of talented visual effects artists, production designers, storyboard artists, and creature designers over the years, and of course his own visual imagination is second-to-none. When putting together the Criterion editions of his films, we were lucky to work with a similarly talented group of artists.

For Cronos, originally released by Criterion in 2010, we invited Hellboy creator Mike Mignola to design a deceptively simple rendering of the ancient, scarab-shaped device that wreaks havoc in the film.

For our 2013 release of The Devil’s Backbone, we tapped frequent del Toro collaborator Guy Davis to create a haunting cover image, pictured below along with some alternate sketches.

We rounded out del Toro’s trilogy with our recently released edition of Pan’s Labyrinth.Becky Cloonan’s cover, shown here with an assortment of her initial roughs, uses the film’s inimitable creatures to craft an allegory of the film's central coming-of-age story.

When it came time to create a slipcase to package the three DVDs together, del Toro requested an encore performance by Guy Davis, and we happily agreed. The resulting cover skillfully blends iconic representations of the three films into one striking image that perfectly captures their spirit.

In addition to Guy’s gorgeous cover, we also felt the new collector’s set was an opportunity to make something a bit more physically special, an objet d’art in line with the magical artifacts and mystical tomes that populate del Toro’s films. Anyone who has watched theWelcome to Bleak House supplement, available on both the collector’s set and the Cronosrelease, knows that del Toro is himself an inveterate collector. We wanted something that would make other collectors salivate, so for the first time, we decided from the outset to create packaging unique to the Blu-ray edition.

I had an idea for an intricate puzzle box, something that appears black and organic and creepy on the outside but opens up to shimmering gold and blood red. Below is an early mock-up of the plan, which you’ll notice includes some details—like die-cut filigrees and a textured slipcase—that ended up not being feasible for various reasons. The basic shape of the idea, though, stayed fairly consistent from inception to final product.

Once this concept was approved, we brought in Russian artist Vania Zouravliov to create the lavishly detailed artwork that would decorate the box. Zouravliov’s stippled style departs from the comic book–influenced work of Mignola, Davis, and Cloonan, and this was important to us, as we wanted to distinguish this box set from the single-film editions that had preceded it. Zouravliov’s work adeptly channels the gothic fairy-tale aesthetic of del Toro’s grotesque-but-gorgeous trilogy, and his initial sketches led to this intricate composite drawing, from which we were able to build most of the components of the interior and exterior boxes.

That last image, which depicts Pan’s Labyrinth’s terrifying Pale Man, serves as the final visual flourish when you finish unpacking the box. See for yourself in the video below, created by photographer Grant Delin.

 

[tridon]

Designing for del Toro

Criterion art director Eric Skillman details the process of creating artwork for our editions of Guillermo del Toro’s trilogy.

Spoiler: Story with great pictures

Guillermo del Toro has worked with an incredibly deep bench of talented visual effects artists, production designers, storyboard artists, and creature designers over the years, and of course his own visual imagination is second-to-none. When putting together the Criterion editions of his films, we were lucky to work with a similarly talented group of artists.

For Cronos, originally released by Criterion in 2010, we invited Hellboy creator Mike Mignola to design a deceptively simple rendering of the ancient, scarab-shaped device that wreaks havoc in the film.

For our 2013 release of The Devil’s Backbone, we tapped frequent del Toro collaborator Guy Davis to create a haunting cover image, pictured below along with some alternate sketches.

We rounded out del Toro’s trilogy with our recently released edition of Pan’s Labyrinth.Becky Cloonan’s cover, shown here with an assortment of her initial roughs, uses the film’s inimitable creatures to craft an allegory of the film's central coming-of-age story.

When it came time to create a slipcase to package the three DVDs together, del Toro requested an encore performance by Guy Davis, and we happily agreed. The resulting cover skillfully blends iconic representations of the three films into one striking image that perfectly captures their spirit.

In addition to Guy’s gorgeous cover, we also felt the new collector’s set was an opportunity to make something a bit more physically special, an objet d’art in line with the magical artifacts and mystical tomes that populate del Toro’s films. Anyone who has watched theWelcome to Bleak House supplement, available on both the collector’s set and the Cronosrelease, knows that del Toro is himself an inveterate collector. We wanted something that would make other collectors salivate, so for the first time, we decided from the outset to create packaging unique to the Blu-ray edition.

I had an idea for an intricate puzzle box, something that appears black and organic and creepy on the outside but opens up to shimmering gold and blood red. Below is an early mock-up of the plan, which you’ll notice includes some details—like die-cut filigrees and a textured slipcase—that ended up not being feasible for various reasons. The basic shape of the idea, though, stayed fairly consistent from inception to final product.

Once this concept was approved, we brought in Russian artist Vania Zouravliov to create the lavishly detailed artwork that would decorate the box. Zouravliov’s stippled style departs from the comic book–influenced work of Mignola, Davis, and Cloonan, and this was important to us, as we wanted to distinguish this box set from the single-film editions that had preceded it. Zouravliov’s work adeptly channels the gothic fairy-tale aesthetic of del Toro’s grotesque-but-gorgeous trilogy, and his initial sketches led to this intricate composite drawing, from which we were able to build most of the components of the interior and exterior boxes.

That last image, which depicts Pan’s Labyrinth’s terrifying Pale Man, serves as the final visual flourish when you finish unpacking the box. See for yourself in the video below, created by photographer Grant Delin.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing, @dan8885! I just wish this set could've been the size of a regular Blu-ray instead of a CD size.

 

[MartenBroadcloak]

Honestly I'm not 100% sure about the box set with the open flaps. How sturdy is the construction and how is the book?

 

[a.k.a.CRUSH]

Pictures:

 

[dan8885]

It arrived some days ago from the B&N sale. Very fast delivery this time (shipped 11/04, arrived 11/23 - normally 4-5 weeks) and ordering just one edition it was shipped in a thick, tight cardboard sleeve and so arrived minty mint!
I'm super happy with this, especially for just 50 USD with shipping to Germany and custom free I watched Cronos yesterday for the very first time and loved it!
Awesome release by Criterion

 

[PunkNinja]

Very fast delivery this time (shipped 11/04, arrived 11/23 - normally 4-5 weeks) and ordering just one edition it was shipped in a thick, tight cardboard sleeve and so arrived minty mint!

Congrats Dan Hopefully B&N keep up this service.

 

[IRON MAN]

Price on Amazon is $65.20 - OP updated.

 

[dan8885]

Congrats Dan Hopefully B&N keep up this service.

Thanks bud! Sadly if you order more than just one you get a bigger box and with that less protection But the cheapest shipping option (to avoid custom tax) was super fast this Time. I hope they keep that up!

 

[hatredhorror]

this set is so nice