Are you bored during this confinement and you do not know what to do? Well Guillermo Del Toro has some movies and series to advise you… In these times of crisis, Guillermo Del Toro knows how to entertain us. The Oscar-winning filmmaker in 2018 for The Shape of Water launched a thread on Twitter. And it inspired other directors who began to imitate him on the famous social network, in response to the filmmaker's question: "What do you read? What are you looking at?" . Among them are Ari Aster, Darren Aronofsky, Edgar Wright, Scott Derrickson and Rian Johnson. Thus, we learn that Guillermo Del Toro has reviewed classics of the 7th art with his children, such as Singing in the Rain by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly and Window on Course by the famous Alfred Hitchcock. He also advises Internet users to watch the Mexican classic El suavecito by Fernando Méndez, The Employment of the Italian Ermanno Olmi but also three films by the French Céline Sciamma (whom he seems to admire a lot) namely Birth of Octopuses, Tomboy and Gang of Girls. So you are spoiled for choice! https://twitter.com/RealGDT/status/1252274005840715781?s=20 Are you more of a series? No worries! Guillermo Del Toro takes care of you by advising you on the third season of Ozark in which he immersed himself and which he says he loved. He added to his selection Better Call Saul and the cooking show Chopped. So there is something for everyone! Ari Aster (Heredity) was one of the first to respond to the thread. The director has rediscovered season 3 of The Sopranos, which he describes as a "work of art". He explains:
"I also re-watched the TV version of 'Scenes from Married Life'. It was heartwarming to see these two morbidly disenchanted people decimate each other in the comfort of their own homes."
He also adds, with his characteristic touch of black humor:
"I watched 'Reds' on Amazon Prime recently. A film that has the merit of being long and terribly romantic, which makes me want – as a single – to cut my hands and replace them with my feet. Nicholson in Eugene O'Neill is a gift." https://twitter.com/AriAster/status/1252269425723490309?s=20
Darren Aronofsky, the director of Mother! – who saw his Batman movie compromised because of Joaquin Phoenix ! – "caught up" by watching several classics including Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the psychological thriller Barton Fink by the Coen brothers, Rashomon by Kurosawa or Total Recall by Paul Verhoeven. Rian Johnson (Star Wars 8) took part in the thread, recommending the viewing of Robert Zemeckis' Who Wants Roger Rabbit's Skin and Robert Altman's 1977 masterpiece Three Women. Finally, Scott Derrickson, the director of Doctor Strange, also played the game. The American director says he is obsessed with Alex Garland's science fiction drama series Devs. He describes it as "a captivating thriller" with "wonderful" photography. So you have a panel of suggestions of films and series selected by the greatest directors. So you know what you have to do!
