The earliest scenes are set during World War I, and Pinocchio's madcap adventures are framed by Mussolini's rise to power and the tightening grip of fascism. The looming threat (literally looming ...

and the rise of Mussolini, you can just see the color drain from faces.” His long career in stop motion began in the 1980s at Will Vinton Studios in his birthplace of Portland, Oregon ...

Pinocchio is coming to life ... setting it against the backdrop of growing fascism in the country as Benito Mussolini consolidates control of the government. The film is narrated by McGregor ...

Stop-motion is a Portland specialty ... the wooden puppet and Christian iconography. It lampoons Mussolini and his fascist henchmen. Pinocchio himself is a rascal who spends much of the film ...

Of course, we're talking about "Pinocchio," Carlo ... That's because del Toro's stop motion animated film, set in 1930s Italy during Mussolini's fascist dictatorship, elevates the painful dilemmas ...

Directing alongside stop-motion veteran Mark Gustafson ... in strict fidelity than Walt Disney was. His “Pinocchio” updates the setting to Mussolini’s Italy in wartime, and remixes ...

who endeavored to make “Pinocchio” like a live-action movie, by following the puppets with the camera and lighting the way he would actors. “I think the beauty of stop-motion and why it has ...

The mere title “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” announces that this stop-motion animated movie reflects ... Setting the tale in Italy during the rise of Mussolini, he shows other young ...

Pinocchio (Gregory Mann) and his father, woodcarver Geppetto (David Bradley), live in a small Italian village under the reign of Benito Mussolini ... The bygone art of stop-motion animation ...

Mark Gustafson, the stop-motion specialist who won an Oscar this year for his work on Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio ... and the rise of Mussolini, you can just see the color drain from faces.” ...