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El laberinto del fauno (Pan's labyrinth)

(2006)

OK, what we used to call The Bicycle Thief we now call Bicycle Thieves, and what we used to call Remembrance of Things Past we now call In Search of Lost Time, so someday maybe we'll call this The Faun's Labyrinth. Or maybe not.

As grim a fairy tale as the Grimms ever imagined, positively Tarantinean in its bloodletting and torture, and yet still one of the most beautiful and touching films of the millennium. But seriously, Guillermo, it's time for something new that's not part of the Hellboy franchise. IMDb lists Pacific Rim, starring my fellow Arsenal backer Idris Elba, this summer, but that doesn't look it's going to break any new ground either. Now Pinocchio, supposedly in preproduction . . . that might be interesting, and if the cast rumors are accurate, it might prove that Ron Perlman and Tom Waits are not the same person. Oh, wait, no it won't: it's animated.