Heat director joins Letterboxd and shares his 14 favorite movies – and, predictably, he has great taste

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Each title has a note from Mann singing its praises.

Of Poor Things, he writes, “Wildly, expressionistically torqued.

Kafka, if he was droll.

For Pan’s Labyrinth, meanwhile, the director says it’s “a real favorite of mine.

Fairytales are not behavioristic, theyre very Freudian.

They use symbols, particularly youth.

Bruno Bettelheim did a lot of work on the nature of fairytales.

Thats the particular genius that Guillermo del Toro has.”