Capping a 15-year process to reach the screen, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio arrives on Netflix on Friday after a limited theatrical run.
The writer/producer/director appeared with co-director Mark Gustafson, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos and others in the cast and crew Tuesday night at the film’s New York premiere at the Museum of Modern Art.
In addition to the film, which world premiered in October at the BFI London Film Festival, the event offered an early look at Crafting Pinocchio, an exhibition scheduled to open Sunday at MoMA and remain on view through next April. “We wanted to push the boundaries of stop-motion,” del Toro told the audience, standing alongside co-director Mark Gustafson, whose credits include The Fantastic Mr.
Fox. “We wanted to move away from the things that make animation confused as a genre for kids. It is not. Animation is art, and animation is film.” Citing animation legend Hayao Miyazaki’s credo about how animating the ordinary makes it extraordinary, del Toro continued, “Anybody can move the puppet, but not everybody can animate it.
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