The great filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro has a new adaptation of
Frankenstein. He saw the 1931 film when he was 7. “I realized I understood my faith better through Frankenstein than through Sunday Mass,” he tells Terry Gross. “And I decided at age seven that the creature of Frankenstein was gonna be my personal avatar and my personal messiah.” His other films include
Pan’s Labyrinth and
The Shape of Water.
Also, we hear from Cameron Crowe, who wrote and directed
Jerry Maguire,
Say Anything and the semi-autobiographical film
Almost Famous, about writing for
Rolling Stone starting at age 15. His new memoir is about being a naive teen, exposed to the excesses of rock musicians.
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