Send your movie questions to FlickChickThis weeks DVD Tuesday spotlighted pick is The Devils Backbone with some virtual-discussion starters to get the conversation going Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is everywhere right now His Pans Labyrinth 2006 which opened on Dec 29 in limited release and is about to expand distribution is turning up on numerous critics 10-best lists and being spoken of as a serious Oscar contender Thats no mean feat for a dark fantasy in Spanish And mind you its getting critcal notice for overall achievement screenplay cinematography and the performance of 11-year-old star Ivana Baquero not as the best foreign-language film of the year So this seems the perfect time to recommend del Toros earlier The Devils Backbone which shares many elements with Pans Labyrinth including a Spanish Civil War-era setting an integral part of both films stories and thematic underpinnings and a child protagonist whose youth in no way makes eithe
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