Del Toro on Fellini and Argento

Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox is currently hosting Fellini: Spectacular Obsessions, an exhibition devoted to the legendary director and his films. In conjunction with this, TIFF Cinematheque has organized Fellini Dream Double Bills, a series that pairs Fellini films with similar works by other filmmakers. While these double bills were selected by "nine luminaries from the film world," Guillermo del Toro was not one of them. However, the Mexican genre auteur/scholar happens to be in town prepping Pacific Rim and, prompted to select his own dream double bill, he came up with the same pair as writer/producer/studio exec James Schamus: Fellini's Toby Dammit (from Spirits of the Dead) and Dario Argento's Suspiria. Since Schamus wasn't available to discuss these films, del Toro took his place. Below you'll see and/or hear his introduction, as well as the lengthy discussion he had with TIFF's Noah Cowan following the screening. -- JD