Guillermo Del Toro is renowned for a lot of things, but deeply devoted collector might not have been the first title you thought of.

The director, who won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Feature for The Shape of Water (2017) and Best Animated Feature for Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022), has curated a private museum of film ephemera that he calls Bleak House. Over time, the collection has become a legendary assemblage regarded by fans of his films and cinephiles at large.

When Dallas filmmaker Josh David Jordan flew to Los Angeles in January, his plan was to interview Del Toro about consigning a portion of the Bleak House collection to Heritage Auctions. Instead, he spent the trip helping Del Toro rescue his belongings from the Los Angeles wildfires.

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