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Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film finally hits the big screen after 25 years

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Post by btbuildem »

jfengel wrote: post #2

I caught an interview with Gilliam on the Big Think podcast, on which he was charming. He speaks very highly of Jonathan Pryce in the lead, but I'm even more interested in seeing Adam Driver. I haven't really enjoyed Driver's work in the past, not because he's bad at his job but because he's typecast as the broody annoying guy. To hear Gilliam describe it, he seems to start that way, but then gets to exercise comic c…

Check out Logan Lucky and BlackKklansman -- Driver definitely has more range than the Star Wars movie would have you believe.

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Post by monocasa »

stevewillows wrote: post #16

I loved this film. Its quirky and scattered in all of the right ways. I really admire Gilliam's persistence over the years -- and I'm thankful that he was willing to allow not one, but two documentaries to be filmed about the struggle to be made. Critics have been a little lukewarm to the film, but everybody I know who has seen it has loved it. It has definitely lived up to the hype. Its a shame I wasn't able to catc…

The standard critics have it out for Terry Gilliam for a bunch of reasons not related to the quality if his work.

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Post by smacktoward »

JeanMarcS wrote: post #10
smacktoward wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. But wait, it gets worse! Here in the US, the theatrical run was exactly one day long, and they didn't spend any money to promote it. So I, a huge Gilliam fan, didn't even know it was happening until days later when stories like this showed up. Sigh.

That's bad luck. I hope you can catch it this time !

C'est la vie :-D

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Post by mrec »

laken wrote: post #18
jfengel wrote: post #2

I caught an interview with Gilliam on the Big Think podcast, on which he was charming. He speaks very highly of Jonathan Pryce in the lead, but I'm even more interested in seeing Adam Driver. I haven't really enjoyed Driver's work in the past, not because he's bad at his job but because he's typecast as the broody annoying guy. To hear Gilliam describe it, he seems to start that way, but then gets to exercise comic c…

Adam Driver in "The BlacKKKlansman" was really great, and is him in a different role than usual. He comes from a really fascinating background (military) compared to other actors which makes him incredibly unique.

He's good in Logan Lucky too. Fun film, including the best prison riot ever.

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Post by CalChris »

I remember seeing a snippet of this film like 15 years ago (with Johnny Depp). At that point it was never going to be finished. Now it's playing at the 4 Star in SF this Friday. I can't wait.

https://screenmediafilms.net/productions/details/2795/The-Ma...

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Post by pbk1 »

Interesting - the last sentence of the logline reads "Or will love conquer all?" [0]

Does anyone know if this is a snipe at Sid Sheinberg, who famously edited the happy ending of Brazil which was titled "Love Conquers All"? [1]

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1318517/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)#Home_media

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Post by lisper »

Gilliam's "Brazil" is still my favorite film of all time. If you haven't seen it, you should. Note that there are multiple versions of this film floating around. Comparing them makes a very interesting study in film editing. The story of the making of "Brazil" is almost as interesting and fraught as Don Quixote.

When watching Brazil it's important to keep in mind that it was made in 1985, before 9-11, before the internet, before ubiquitous surveillance. It is one of the most prescient films ever made.

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Post by drdeadringer »

I volunteer as a projectionist at Cinequest, a film festival in San Jose. This movie premiered as one of the festival book-ends this year [2019].

I personally didn't go out of personal preference and I have no regrets over that. I've heard mixed reviews before and after. Maybe I'll see it eventually, but I'm not itching for it.

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Post by jfengel »

CalChris wrote: post #25

I remember seeing a snippet of this film like 15 years ago (with Johnny Depp). At that point it was never going to be finished. Now it's playing at the 4 Star in SF this Friday. I can't wait. https://screenmediafilms.net/productions/details/2795/The-Ma...

You probably saw some of Lost in La Mancha, a documentary about the disaster that project was.

This is a revival of that project. They resuscitated the script and completely re-cast it (since, among other things, original lead Jean Rochefort passed away more than a year ago).

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