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Lost in La Mancha

Lost in La Mancha (2002)

August. 30,2002
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7.3
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R
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Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.

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Jeanskynebu
2002/08/30

the audience applauded

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Moustroll
2002/08/31

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Zandra
2002/09/01

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Juana
2002/09/02

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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kino1969
2002/09/03

Even in its length, I wanted to see more. Yes, Gilliam has the "Cimino Curse," but it is unwarranted. This documentary shows his "madness," but it is no more than that of other directing legends (Kubrick comes to mind). What happens to Gilliam is NOT his fault. If not, very little is. As the filmmakers keep repeating, "Munchausen, Munchausen, Munchausen." This documentary shows its audience all of the problems with making movies. It isn't as easy as many think. Gilliam and others do as much as they can to get the movie made, but flight training overhead, storms, and medical problems are always sprouting. I remember the good days of making student movies. For me, it was just terrible. Everything had to fit into a perfect line: timetables, money, actors, crew, sets. Hollywood just throws everything to some talentless hack, but those directors who have talent are constantly fighting any and all problems that arise. Does that make them eccentric? No. It makes them hard workers with a true love for the art of cinema. That being said, this documentary shows the problems with film making. Extremely insightful and well done. To boot, the narration is given to Bridges.8 of 10, mostly for it feeling too brief! 9 of 10 for the DVD with the Salman Rushdie interview, which is MUST SEE! ----- E.

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The_Depressed_Star_Wars_fan
2002/09/04

This is a brilliant idea for a documentary. The film follows Terry Gilliam as he attempts to make the move "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote". While doing so everything that could go wrong does. You can actually feel the emotions the filmmakers are going through, especially when things start to go wrong. It actually gets kinda uncomfortable. Throughout the film they are kind enough to show us different story boards, script readings, and clips from this unfinished project. The film they are trying to make seems like it would be kinda interesting. It's just a shame that it was never finished. Time to wrap this review up. In the end this is a great film to watch if you wish to be a film director, and even if you don't it's still and enjoyable film so check it out.

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kkarinski
2002/09/05

I really felt like Terry Gilliam was just trying to somehow salvage something from his failure to complete "Man of La Mancha". I have no problem with that if the story is a good one and it is told well. This is not. While his travails were many and unusual, to be sure, he used none of his skills to present them in an entertaining way. They were simply presented to us as information, almost. This is unacceptable from someone of his experience and expertise. We can expect more from him. I believe this "failed movie" idea is presented better in "Project: Tomorrow Men" by Clockwork Pictures. While this movie is decidedly amateurish, it is understandably so, since it is the story of a fledgling companies attempts to produce their first feature film. Nevertheless, they do a better job than the years-of-experience Gilliam does with his.

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Howlin Wolf
2002/09/06

... That man is, of course, Terry Gilliam; and although all the painstaking effort we are shown reminds us that film-making is a collaborative process, it is difficult not to have the most sympathy and admiration for a director who has cherished the realisation of this project for reportedly over a decade. At the present time of writing, the spectre of the film still hangs around Gilliam's neck like the apocryphal albatross.Not only is this superb documentary successfully intimate to make its watchers want the tremendous promise that we see to be fulfilled; it also chronicles the setbacks so grimly, that to overcome them could only be heralded as a monumental triumph. In an era when interminable franchises continue to hook the drones into theatres, Quixote must come to fruition if only to show that passion and ambition will ultimately make more history than any amount of calculated profit-maximisation.I myself am eager to see this undertaking finally meet success in the future... I wish the best of luck to all parties involved.

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