We are told it's a children's fairy tale. We are told it's rated R. We know it sounds like Spanish because er, it is in Spanish. The story finds a way to compare the imagination of a child with fascist cruelty.
Take all of that, mix it in a blender, and out comes Pan's Labyrinth, the best film of 2006.
Critics Call Pan's Labyrinth Best Film of 2006
That's right folks. Just in time for the film's expanded release, the National Society of Film Critics has announced Pan's Labyrinth as the best film of 2006. Check out the list below (source):
BEST PICTURE
1. Pan's Labyrinth - 34 (Guillermo del Toro)
2. The Death of Mr. Lazurescu - 31 (Cristi Puiu)
3. Letters from Iwo Jima - 29 (Clint Eastwood)
BEST DIRECTOR
1. Paul Greengrass - 21 (United 93)
2. Martin Scorsese - 15 (The Departed)
2. Guillermo del Toro - 15 (Pan's Labyrinth)
BEST NONFICTION FILM
1. An Inconvenient Truth - 26
2. Deliver Us From Evil - 24
3. Shut Up & Sing - 13
BEST ACTOR
1. Forest Whitaker - 9 in tiebreaker - 54 (The Last King of Scotland)
2. Peter O'Toole - 8 in tiebreaker - 54 (Venus)
3. Ryan Gosling - 37 (Half Nelson)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Mark Wahlberg - 28 (The Departed)
2. Jackie Earle Haley - 18 (Little Children)
3. Alan Arkin - 17 (Little Miss Sunshine)
BEST ACTRESS
1. Helen Mirren -94 (The Queen)
2. Laura Dern - 32 (Inland Empire)
3. Judi Dench - 25 (Notes on a Scandal)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Meryl Streep - 25 (The Devil Wears Prada and A Prairie Home Companion)
2. Jennifer Hudson - 22 (Dreamgirls)
3. Shareeka Epps - 16 (Half Nelson)
BEST SCREENPLAY
1. The Queen - 67 (Peter Morgan)
2. The Departed - 25 (William Monahan)
3. The Good Shepherd - 15 (Eric Roth)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Children of Men - 66 (Emmanuel Lubezki)
2. Pan's Labyrinth - 41 (Guillermo Navarro)
3. Curse of the Golden Flower - 10 (Xiaoding Zhao)
Pan's Labyrinth will have an expanded release this January 19th.
For more movie info, movie stills, posters, clips, early reviews and the teaser
trailers, go to the Pan's
Labyrinth Movie Page.
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