The continuous blurring between different levels of fiction and reality in this movie reminded of Philip K. Dick's novels, also of Stanislaw Lem's "Futurological Congress".
Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film finally hits the big screen after 25 years
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Re: Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film finally hits the big screen after 25 years
#42Gilliam'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 inte…
>Gilliam's "Brazil" is still my favorite film of all time
Mine too. I am also a Common Lisp programmer, although I haven't put Lisp on spaceships like you. Great Minds Think Alike!!
Re: Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film finally hits the big screen after 25 years
#43Finally ? I saw it around a year ago in theater. Is it just out now in the US ? Edit : it seems that it is the case [0]. Well, we were lucky in France I guess On a side note, I really liked this movie ! [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1318517/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_...
gilliam made it all the way through shooting in the 90s with johnny depp and the movie was canceled very late in production. the version we're discussing now is a complete reboot. it was shown at cannes and had a limited theatrical release in france.
a release in the US was planned for the same time, and in fact the movie was very briefly streaming on amazon in the US, but ultimately got locked up because one of the producers of the original version took gilliam to court.
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#44Finally ? I saw it around a year ago in theater. Is it just out now in the US ? Edit : it seems that it is the case [0]. Well, we were lucky in France I guess On a side note, I really liked this movie ! [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1318517/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_...
Yes, Amazon was going to distribute it, but they got scared after last year's lawsuit.
they actually did stream it and sell DVDs very briefly here in the US, but they pulled it as soon as the legal issues became known.
Re: Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film finally hits the big screen after 25 years
#45I 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…
There was another good interview in NYC on US premiere day: https://youtu.be/zH982kFXMuM I had to make sure to be in NY for it. Last time I saw him live (at IFC for The Zero Theorem), he mentioned that he can only spend 29 days per year in the United States after giving up his American citizenship. His days are counted, in a way...
Weird - this German language source [0] from around the time of his citizenship renunciation indicated the 29 day cap last for ten years - so it would've stopped 3 years ago..
[0] https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/kopflos-am-potsdamer-plat...
Re: Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film finally hits the big screen after 25 years
#46Gilliam'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 inte…
My favourite of all time too. I think it holds up as a whole (including visually, where others might seem dated) extremely well.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
May you elaborate?
There was a lot of bad blood over the US studio's reedit of Brazil to give it a happy ending (which was atrocious). Following that Baron Munchausen was a flop (and while I like it, def not his best work to be fair). After that he was sort of written off from the establishment as it were (including the critics who know to pay the piper). But while that would have killed off the careers of most directors, Terry Gilliam…
> You can see this most clearly in the Metacritic for Tideland which is pretty positive as far as user submitted reviews go, but is one of the worst movies ever if you were to go off the critics reviews.
The problem is, critics are usually right, and the audience usually isn't. This is because critics have studied film, often went to film school, and can point out just exactly how a film fails.
That being said, Gilliam is the rare exception, and I do believe it is because of that ineffable quality about him and his directorial style. Maybe it's because I grew up with it, but "Time Bandits" is still one of my favorite films of all time. "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" was not really very well made, but it's still distinctly Gilliamesque, and it actually works around the death of Heath Ledger very adroitly. "Zero Theroem" was also a bit disappointing, but it's still at least different, not your usual Hollywood schlock.
"Brazil" was Gilliam par excellence; I am hopeful his take on Quixote is good, but even if it isn't, it will almost definitely be interesting.
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#48Finally ? I saw it around a year ago in theater. Is it just out now in the US ? Edit : it seems that it is the case [0]. Well, we were lucky in France I guess On a side note, I really liked this movie ! [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1318517/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_...
This being a limited release, how/where can we see it?
Re: Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film finally hits the big screen after 25 years
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a lot of bad blood over the US studio's reedit of Brazil to give it a happy ending (which was atrocious). Following that Baron Munchausen was a flop (and while I like it, def not his best work to be fair). After that he was sort of written off from the establishment as it were (including the critics who know to pay the piper). But while that would have killed off the careers of most directors, Terry Gilliam…
> You can see this most clearly in the Metacritic for Tideland which is pretty positive as far as user submitted reviews go, but is one of the worst movies ever if you were to go off the critics reviews. The problem is, critics are usually right, and the audience usually isn't. This is because critics have studied film, often went to film school, and can point out just exactly how a film fails. That being said, Gilli…
It was only the domestic critics who shat on it so hard. It did well both critically and financially in the international markets.
Re: Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film finally hits the big screen after 25 years
#50i would characterize chaos, loss of agency, and delusion/delirium as the common themes that tie together all of gilliam's major works. i love the experience of watching the narratives unravel as the characters lose touch with reality -- but rather than becoming isolated from the world, we see a perspective where the entire world seems to descend into madness in the character's footsteps.
i felt differently about this movie. the same themes are here, but much more explicit. in this film, the character becomes more and more isolated, the world becomes smaller and smaller, and the delusions are unilateral. it doesn't allow me to follow the main character into the spiral and i'm left feeling like an observer rather than a participant.