Seven classic feature films, to be screened for the first time in Saudi Arabia, are showing at the Red Sea Film Festival’s Treasures sidebar in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Director of Arab programs and film classics Antoine Khalife tells Variety: “We really wanted to focus this year on the musical, as well as films about cinema itself.”
Films with a musical theme include a screening of a 4K restoration of Fatih Akin’s 2005 documentary about the music scene in Turkey “Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul” and Jacques Demy’s classic French musical “Les Demoiselles de Rochefort,” starring Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac and Gene Kelly from 1967.
“From the Arab world, we wanted to have something unusual: ‘The Victory of Youth,’ which stars Farid Al-Atrash and Asmahan,” Khalife says. The real-life siblings play brother and sister singer-musicians looking for fame via the silver screen. “We looked really hard to find...
Director of Arab programs and film classics Antoine Khalife tells Variety: “We really wanted to focus this year on the musical, as well as films about cinema itself.”
Films with a musical theme include a screening of a 4K restoration of Fatih Akin’s 2005 documentary about the music scene in Turkey “Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul” and Jacques Demy’s classic French musical “Les Demoiselles de Rochefort,” starring Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac and Gene Kelly from 1967.
“From the Arab world, we wanted to have something unusual: ‘The Victory of Youth,’ which stars Farid Al-Atrash and Asmahan,” Khalife says. The real-life siblings play brother and sister singer-musicians looking for fame via the silver screen. “We looked really hard to find...
- 11/30/2023
- by John Bleasdale
- Variety Film + TV
Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut Woman Of The Hour and family drama Mother Couch, starring Ewan McGregor and Ellen Burstyn, are headed to the third edition of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival, running from November 30 to December 9 in the port city of Jeddah.
The titles will play in the Festival Favorites sidebar which was announced on Thursday alongside the event’s Red Sea: Treasures strand.
Kendrick directs and stars in Netflix-acquired drama Woman Of The Hour as a woman whose path crosses notorious serial killer Rodney Alcala, whilst in Niclas Larsson’s first film Mother Couch, McGregor plays a man whose mother squats the family furniture store.
Further films in the line-up – showcasing 21 buzzy festival titles from the last 12 months – include the David Oyelowo produced documentary Allihopa: The Dalkurd Story; Women’s World Cup doc Copa 71, executive produced by Serena and Venus Williams, Jennifer Esposito’s Fresh Kills,...
The titles will play in the Festival Favorites sidebar which was announced on Thursday alongside the event’s Red Sea: Treasures strand.
Kendrick directs and stars in Netflix-acquired drama Woman Of The Hour as a woman whose path crosses notorious serial killer Rodney Alcala, whilst in Niclas Larsson’s first film Mother Couch, McGregor plays a man whose mother squats the family furniture store.
Further films in the line-up – showcasing 21 buzzy festival titles from the last 12 months – include the David Oyelowo produced documentary Allihopa: The Dalkurd Story; Women’s World Cup doc Copa 71, executive produced by Serena and Venus Williams, Jennifer Esposito’s Fresh Kills,...
- 11/9/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
(Welcome to SlashClips, a series where we bring you exclusive clips from hot new Digital, Blu-ray, and theatrical releases you won't see anywhere else!)In this edition:
He Dreams of Giants Gossamer Folds YellowBrickRoad
First up, we have an exclusive opening clip from "He Dreams of Giants," Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's two-decades-later follow-up to their 2002 documentary "Lost in La Mancha." This time, they follow Terry Gilliam's final (and successful) attempt at filming 2019's "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote." After debuting at Doc NYC a few years ago, the documentary is finally available on digital and VOD today.
Here is the official synopsis:
From the team behind...
The post Clips Round-Up: Terry Gilliam Tilts At Windmills In He Dreams Of Giants & More [Exclusive] appeared first on /Film.
He Dreams of Giants Gossamer Folds YellowBrickRoad
First up, we have an exclusive opening clip from "He Dreams of Giants," Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's two-decades-later follow-up to their 2002 documentary "Lost in La Mancha." This time, they follow Terry Gilliam's final (and successful) attempt at filming 2019's "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote." After debuting at Doc NYC a few years ago, the documentary is finally available on digital and VOD today.
Here is the official synopsis:
From the team behind...
The post Clips Round-Up: Terry Gilliam Tilts At Windmills In He Dreams Of Giants & More [Exclusive] appeared first on /Film.
- 8/9/2022
- by Max Evry
- Slash Film
"Don't finish it, leave it as a dream..." Bohemia Media is finally releasing this filmmaking documentary in the US on VOD starting in August. 20 years after the doc Lost in La Mancha (2002), Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe come back to follow Terry Gilliam’s final and successful attempt at filming The Man Who Killed Don Quixote - which debuted in 2018. From the same team behind La Mancha, He Dreams of Giants is the culmination of a trilogy of documentaries following director Terry Gilliam over a 25 year period. Charting his final, beleaguered quest to adapt Don Quixote, this film is a potent study of creative obsession. Using verité footage of Gilliam's production with intimate interviews + archival footage from the director's entire career, He Dreams of Giants is a revealing character study of a late-career artist, and a meditation on the value of unabashed creativity in the face of mortality. Considering both...
- 7/18/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
April’s horror and sci-fi home media releases are ending in a big way, as we have a lot of genre goodness to look forward to with this week’s 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD offerings. In terms of new titles, Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall is arriving this Tuesday on a variety of formats, and both Gia Elliott’s psychological thriller Take Back the Night and Dead by Midnight Y2Kill are headed to DVD as well.
Arrow Video is giving Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys the 4K treatment this week, and Vinegar Syndrome has several titles headed to 4K this week, too, including Scanner Cop, Scanner Cop II: The Showdown, Madman, and a Schizoid/X-Ray double feature. Severin Films is showing some love to the Ozploitation flick Stone with a Special Edition release, and Agfa/Bleeding Skull are putting out Emily Hagins’ Pathogen on Blu-ray, too.
Other titles headed home on...
Arrow Video is giving Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys the 4K treatment this week, and Vinegar Syndrome has several titles headed to 4K this week, too, including Scanner Cop, Scanner Cop II: The Showdown, Madman, and a Schizoid/X-Ray double feature. Severin Films is showing some love to the Ozploitation flick Stone with a Special Edition release, and Agfa/Bleeding Skull are putting out Emily Hagins’ Pathogen on Blu-ray, too.
Other titles headed home on...
- 4/26/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Gilliam’s epic travails filming Don Quixote are well worth seeing again – and should be on the syllabus at every film school
The creative heroism of Terry Gilliam is saluted once again in this 20-year-anniversary rerelease of Lost in La Mancha, the documentary by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe about Gilliam’s incredible ordeal in the late 90s in trying to make a movie version of Don Quixote: a salutary warning about the physical and mental nightmare of independent film-making. Gilliam’s leading man, veteran French star Jean Rochefort, suffered a herniated disc midway through shooting and was unable to carry on, dealing a death blow to an under-funded, over-ambitious production already traumatised by biblical floods that swept away their equipment in the Spanish desert, Nato jets overhead which ruined the soundtrack, and insurers who wouldn’t pay out on Rochefort’s illness and became the obstructive legal owners...
The creative heroism of Terry Gilliam is saluted once again in this 20-year-anniversary rerelease of Lost in La Mancha, the documentary by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe about Gilliam’s incredible ordeal in the late 90s in trying to make a movie version of Don Quixote: a salutary warning about the physical and mental nightmare of independent film-making. Gilliam’s leading man, veteran French star Jean Rochefort, suffered a herniated disc midway through shooting and was unable to carry on, dealing a death blow to an under-funded, over-ambitious production already traumatised by biblical floods that swept away their equipment in the Spanish desert, Nato jets overhead which ruined the soundtrack, and insurers who wouldn’t pay out on Rochefort’s illness and became the obstructive legal owners...
- 4/13/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
“I am insane. And you are my insanity.”
Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys (1995) will be available on 4K Ultra HD April 26th from Arrow Video.
Following the commercial and critical success of The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam next feature would turn to science fiction and a screenplay by Janet and David Peoples inspired by Chris Marker’s classic short film La Jetée.
In 1996, a deadly virus is unleashed by a group calling themselves the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, destroying much of the world’s population and forcing survivors underground. In 2035, prisoner James Cole is chosen to go back in time and help scientists in their search for a cure.
Featuring an Oscar-nominated turn by Brad Pitt (Fight Club) as mental patient Jeffrey Goines, Twelve Monkeys would become Gilliam’s most successful film and is now widely regarded as a sci-fi classic. Arrow Films are proud to...
Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys (1995) will be available on 4K Ultra HD April 26th from Arrow Video.
Following the commercial and critical success of The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam next feature would turn to science fiction and a screenplay by Janet and David Peoples inspired by Chris Marker’s classic short film La Jetée.
In 1996, a deadly virus is unleashed by a group calling themselves the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, destroying much of the world’s population and forcing survivors underground. In 2035, prisoner James Cole is chosen to go back in time and help scientists in their search for a cure.
Featuring an Oscar-nominated turn by Brad Pitt (Fight Club) as mental patient Jeffrey Goines, Twelve Monkeys would become Gilliam’s most successful film and is now widely regarded as a sci-fi classic. Arrow Films are proud to...
- 4/4/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Some labelled Terry Gilliam’s 30 year quest to make ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ cursed, he certainly went through a number of issues trying to get it made. The documentary ‘He Dreams of Giants’ following Gilliam on his quest to make the film has dropped a new trailer.
The touching documentary is a potent study of creative obsession. Combining immersive footage of Gilliam’s production with intimate interviews and archival footage from the director’s entire career, the doc is a revealing character study of an artist and a meditation on the value of creativity in the face of mortality.
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe and produced by Lucy Darwin, the team behind ‘Lost in La Mancha’, the 2002 documentary that charted the doomed earlier production of ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’. It features legendary artist and director Terry Gilliam, and features Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce.
The touching documentary is a potent study of creative obsession. Combining immersive footage of Gilliam’s production with intimate interviews and archival footage from the director’s entire career, the doc is a revealing character study of an artist and a meditation on the value of creativity in the face of mortality.
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe and produced by Lucy Darwin, the team behind ‘Lost in La Mancha’, the 2002 documentary that charted the doomed earlier production of ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’. It features legendary artist and director Terry Gilliam, and features Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce.
- 3/9/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Once it's done, there's a great void waiting for me... and that scares the shit out of me." Blue Finch Films UK has released an official UK trailer for He Dreams of Giants, the "sequel" to the infamous filmmaking documentary Lost in La Mancha. That doc film (which debuted in 2002) captured Terry Gilliam's failed attempt to make a Don Quixote picture, and is well known as a doc that intimately captures a project falling apart. But, as everyone knows, he eventually did finish making the film in 2018. A harrowing 30-year quest to bring Don Quixote to the screen finds director Terry Gilliam battling his personal demons. Or are they only windmills? Follow the iconic director Terry Gilliam as he fights to finish his elusive passion-project. Fifteen years after Lost in La Mancha (2002), Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe come back to follow Gilliam's new (successful) attempt at filming The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...
- 3/8/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In today’s Global Bulletin, Raindance announces its winners, Göteborg goes hybrid, Movistar Plus announces a new climate change docuseries, and Dopamine hires Maria Garcia-Castrillon to lead the company’s international business.
Festivals
Raindance Film Festival’s virtual awards ceremony unspooled on Thursday, live streamed from the Leicester Square Theater, where Giorgos Georgopoulos’ dark comedy “Not to Be Unpleasant But We Need to Have a Serious Talk” was declared Film of the Festival and Finnish feature “Force of Habit,” seven stories from seven directors about the normality of sexual harassment and abuse in private and society at large, won best international feature and best screenplay.
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s “He Dreams of Giants” and “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” from director Sabrina Van Tassel won best U.K. feature and best documentary feature respectively. In the former, Fulton and Pepe track Terry Gilliam’s long-fought battle to film his most recent feature,...
Festivals
Raindance Film Festival’s virtual awards ceremony unspooled on Thursday, live streamed from the Leicester Square Theater, where Giorgos Georgopoulos’ dark comedy “Not to Be Unpleasant But We Need to Have a Serious Talk” was declared Film of the Festival and Finnish feature “Force of Habit,” seven stories from seven directors about the normality of sexual harassment and abuse in private and society at large, won best international feature and best screenplay.
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s “He Dreams of Giants” and “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” from director Sabrina Van Tassel won best U.K. feature and best documentary feature respectively. In the former, Fulton and Pepe track Terry Gilliam’s long-fought battle to film his most recent feature,...
- 11/6/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the top prize.
Greek director Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the ’film of the festival’ prize at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival, held online this year from October 28 to November 7.
A dark comedy about a womaniser who contracts a sexually-transmited disease that could be fatal to his many partners, Greece’s Not To Be Unpleasant previously picked up the J.F.Costopoulos Foundation award at the 2019 Thessaloniki film festival.
The other winners...
Greek director Giorgos Georgopoulos’s Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk won the ’film of the festival’ prize at the UK’s Raindance Film Festival, held online this year from October 28 to November 7.
A dark comedy about a womaniser who contracts a sexually-transmited disease that could be fatal to his many partners, Greece’s Not To Be Unpleasant previously picked up the J.F.Costopoulos Foundation award at the 2019 Thessaloniki film festival.
The other winners...
- 11/6/2020
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Terry Gilliam spent 30 years chasing his passion project and finally completed “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” last year. The seriocomic saga folded in on itself, as Gilliam seemed to be trapped in his own Quixotic delusion that his ambitious Spanish production would ever be completed. The first chapter of that struggle was documented in directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s 2002 “Lost in La Mancha,” which itself became an unfinished story as it captured the forlorn Gilliam through a series of frustrating creative and practical challenges — from ruined sets to injured actors — until the project collapsed.
“He Dreams of Giants” completes the narrative, finding Gilliam several decades older but no less committed to his ambitious saga, now starring Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver in roles that once fell to Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort. “Don Quixote” stumbled to the finish line at Cannes last year as its closing-night selection,...
“He Dreams of Giants” completes the narrative, finding Gilliam several decades older but no less committed to his ambitious saga, now starring Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver in roles that once fell to Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort. “Don Quixote” stumbled to the finish line at Cannes last year as its closing-night selection,...
- 11/11/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
A study of legacy, ambition, self-doubt, and determination, “He Dreams of Giants” is a fitting conclusion to one of the most laborious artistic endeavors in recent history. A sequel of sorts, directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe have returned to tie a bow on a most unusual cinematic journey, one where the story, the story about it, and the story about that all become tangled up in a paradoxical cinematic prism.
Continue reading Don’t Sleep On ‘He Dreams of Giants,’ Terry Gilliam’s Quixote Redemption [Doc NYC Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Don’t Sleep On ‘He Dreams of Giants,’ Terry Gilliam’s Quixote Redemption [Doc NYC Review] at The Playlist.
- 11/10/2019
- by Warren Cantrell
- The Playlist
In 2002, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe released “Lost in La Mancha,” a documentary covering director Terry Gilliam‘s failed attempt at adapting “Don Quixote” as a feature-length film at the beginning of the decade. For years, it seemed the “Lost in La Mancha” would be the closest Gilliam came to making a “Don Quixote” movie, but the right combination of events – and a bankable lead – would result in “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” in 2018.
Continue reading ‘Lost In La Mancha’ Follow-Up ‘He Dreams Of Giants’ Will Premiere At Doc NYC at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Lost In La Mancha’ Follow-Up ‘He Dreams Of Giants’ Will Premiere At Doc NYC at The Playlist.
- 10/12/2019
- by Matthew Monagle
- The Playlist
After years of stops and starts, near-misses and almost-disasters, legal snafus and financial mishaps, Terry Gilliam’s plagued passion project “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” is finally bound for U.S. release. Screen Media has picked up the North American rights to the film, starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgard, Olga Kurylenko, and Jordi Molla.
The company, in partnership with Fathom Events, is planning a national theatrical release for March 2019. After nearly 25 years of attempts to make the film, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” had its world premiere as the closing night selection at Cannes 2018.
At one time, the film was set to be distributed by Amazon, after it committed significant financing to the feature, which draws inspiration from Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes’ two-part novel, “Don Quixote.” Last May, however, the streaming powerhouse pulled out of the deal, just days after Gilliam reportedly suffered a stroke and...
The company, in partnership with Fathom Events, is planning a national theatrical release for March 2019. After nearly 25 years of attempts to make the film, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” had its world premiere as the closing night selection at Cannes 2018.
At one time, the film was set to be distributed by Amazon, after it committed significant financing to the feature, which draws inspiration from Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes’ two-part novel, “Don Quixote.” Last May, however, the streaming powerhouse pulled out of the deal, just days after Gilliam reportedly suffered a stroke and...
- 12/17/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #31. Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe – He Dreams of Giants (Docu)
Premiering in Cannes with a whimper, Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote might actually benefit from the circulation of a making of docu much like how Morgan Neville’s They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead and Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind have been paired. A curiosity item that will likely do more to compliment Lost in La Mancha, if included, Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe‘s He Dreams of Giants (which was being edited back in May) would follow in the footsteps of Bad Kids – which garnered some kudo clout for the filmmaking team (Special Jury Prize for Verité Filmmaking at Sundance in 2016).…...
- 11/21/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys (1995) starring Bruce Willis and Brad Piit will be available on Blu-ray October 30th From Arrow Video
The Future Is History
Following the commercial and critical success of The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam next feature would turn to science fiction and a screenplay by Janet and David Peoples inspired by Chris Marker’s classic short film La Jetée.
In 1996, a deadly virus is unleashed by a group calling themselves the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, destroying much of the world’s population and forcing survivors underground. In 2035, prisoner James Cole is chosen to go back in time and help scientists in their search for a cure.
Featuring an Oscar-nominated turn by Brad Pitt (Fight Club) as mental patient Jeffrey Goines, Twelve Monkeys would become Gilliam’s most successful film and is now widely regarded as a sci-fi classic. Arrow Films are proud to present the film in a stunning new restoration.
The Future Is History
Following the commercial and critical success of The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam next feature would turn to science fiction and a screenplay by Janet and David Peoples inspired by Chris Marker’s classic short film La Jetée.
In 1996, a deadly virus is unleashed by a group calling themselves the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, destroying much of the world’s population and forcing survivors underground. In 2035, prisoner James Cole is chosen to go back in time and help scientists in their search for a cure.
Featuring an Oscar-nominated turn by Brad Pitt (Fight Club) as mental patient Jeffrey Goines, Twelve Monkeys would become Gilliam’s most successful film and is now widely regarded as a sci-fi classic. Arrow Films are proud to present the film in a stunning new restoration.
- 10/2/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Director Terry Gilliam and Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson will be honored this year with lifetime achievement CineMerit Awards at the 36th Munich International Film Festival, which runs June 28-July 7.
Gilliam, whose long-anticipated The Man Who Killed Don Quixote closed Cannes this year, will travel to the Bavarian capital July 7 to receive the honor. Munich will screen the feature, as well as a selection of Gilliam's best-known works, including Brazil, The Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Keith Fulton's and Louis Pepe's 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha, which traces Gilliam's first, failed, attempt to ...
Gilliam, whose long-anticipated The Man Who Killed Don Quixote closed Cannes this year, will travel to the Bavarian capital July 7 to receive the honor. Munich will screen the feature, as well as a selection of Gilliam's best-known works, including Brazil, The Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Keith Fulton's and Louis Pepe's 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha, which traces Gilliam's first, failed, attempt to ...
- 6/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Director Terry Gilliam and Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson will be honored this year with lifetime achievement CineMerit Awards at the 36th Munich International Film Festival, which runs June 28-July 7.
Gilliam, whose long-anticipated The Man Who Killed Don Quixote closed Cannes this year, will travel to the Bavarian capital July 7 to receive the honor. Munich will screen the feature, as well as a selection of Gilliam's best-known works, including Brazil, The Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Keith Fulton's and Louis Pepe's 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha, which traces Gilliam's first, failed, attempt to ...
Gilliam, whose long-anticipated The Man Who Killed Don Quixote closed Cannes this year, will travel to the Bavarian capital July 7 to receive the honor. Munich will screen the feature, as well as a selection of Gilliam's best-known works, including Brazil, The Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Keith Fulton's and Louis Pepe's 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha, which traces Gilliam's first, failed, attempt to ...
- 6/11/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Delusions of grandeur, old-fashioned ideals of romance and justice, the eternal clash between cynicism and dreams — these are the themes of not just comic hero Don Quixote, but also the career of director Terry Gilliam, for whom a film about the ostentatious knight-errant, seemed like the perfect match of artist to material, to the extent that he devoted a quarter century of his life to getting “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” made. After setbacks more epic than anything described in the novel itself, Gilliam’s magnum opus exists at last, and the sad truth is, the reality can never live up to the version that has existed in his (and our) imagination for so long. If anything, it’s what the director’s fans most feared: a lumbering, confused, and cacophonous mess.
Opening with a wink — “And now … after more than 25 years in the making … and unmaking” — the film...
Opening with a wink — “And now … after more than 25 years in the making … and unmaking” — the film...
- 5/18/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
After a three-decade production ordeal Gilliam has delivered a sun-baked fable of money, madness and the movie business – and done so with trademark infectious charm
Terry Gilliam has brought to Cannes his long-gestated and epically delayed movie version of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, a biblical ordeal of wrecked sets, collapsed funding and bad luck that has outlived two of the actors once cast – John Hurt and Jean Rochefort – and which has been attended by colossal legal acrimony and brinkmanship right up to the red-carpet steps themselves, as the former backer Paulo Branco sought to injunct its showing here as closing gala. A French court found against Branco last week, but its screening here has been prefaced by a solemn lawyerly announcement respecting Mr Branco’s future claims. It’s a backstory of enormous drama, well told in Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s documentary Lost in La Mancha, all...
Terry Gilliam has brought to Cannes his long-gestated and epically delayed movie version of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, a biblical ordeal of wrecked sets, collapsed funding and bad luck that has outlived two of the actors once cast – John Hurt and Jean Rochefort – and which has been attended by colossal legal acrimony and brinkmanship right up to the red-carpet steps themselves, as the former backer Paulo Branco sought to injunct its showing here as closing gala. A French court found against Branco last week, but its screening here has been prefaced by a solemn lawyerly announcement respecting Mr Branco’s future claims. It’s a backstory of enormous drama, well told in Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s documentary Lost in La Mancha, all...
- 5/18/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
At the start of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a title card appears. “And now, after more than 25 years in the making… and unmaking… a Terry Gilliam film.” The history behind the director’s tortured attempt to adapt Miguel de Cervantes’ seminal novel is the stuff of legend, beginning in 1989. He first got it into production in 2000, when Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp were cast as Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza. The derailing of that shoot through set flooding, insurance wrangles and Rochefort’s ill health became the subject of Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s Lost in La Mancha, which remains to this day one of the most important documentaries about the filmmaking process.
Shooting was finally complete on The Man Who Killed Don Quixotelast June. In this successful iteration, Jonathan Pryce plays Quixote with Adam Driver cast as Toby, a firebrand film...
Shooting was finally complete on The Man Who Killed Don Quixotelast June. In this successful iteration, Jonathan Pryce plays Quixote with Adam Driver cast as Toby, a firebrand film...
- 5/18/2018
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s early-aughts documentary “Lost in La Mancha” chronicled the time Terry Gilliam assembled a star-studded cast for “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” shot footage, and failed to complete the film. Yet the director had almost two decades of Sisyphean struggles ahead of him, which continued into this very week: Gilliam suffered a stroke shortly before learning that a Paris court — overriding objections from his former producer — had granted him the right to premiere the epic as the Cannes Film Festival’s May 19 closer. As “Quixote” saga winds down, the documentarians have announced plans to expand their version of what happened.
Variety reports that a second documentary, “He Dreamed of Giants,” is in the editing phase. The second film includes dispatches from the final “Quixote” set, where production wrapped in June. “The conflicts raging around Terry right now of making the movie are not nearly...
Variety reports that a second documentary, “He Dreamed of Giants,” is in the editing phase. The second film includes dispatches from the final “Quixote” set, where production wrapped in June. “The conflicts raging around Terry right now of making the movie are not nearly...
- 5/11/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
The story behind “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” and its impact on director Terry Gilliam will be revealed in the new documentary “He Dreams of Giants,” a film-behind-the-film from the same team that made 2002’s “Lost in La Mancha,” an earlier look at Gilliam’s disaster-plagued movie.
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe direct “He Dreams of Giants,” which follows “Lost in La Mancha” and “The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys.” The pair were on set for “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” which is closing the Cannes Film Festival amid a protracted legal battle. The fest has called the film a “unique — and in some ways agonizing — work.”
U.K.-based Quixote Productions, Fulton and Pepe’s Low Key Pictures, and Corniche Pictures are producing “He Dreams of Giants.” Lucy Darwin produces alongside Fulton, and is in Cannes talking to sales agents about the film, which is being edited.
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe direct “He Dreams of Giants,” which follows “Lost in La Mancha” and “The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys.” The pair were on set for “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” which is closing the Cannes Film Festival amid a protracted legal battle. The fest has called the film a “unique — and in some ways agonizing — work.”
U.K.-based Quixote Productions, Fulton and Pepe’s Low Key Pictures, and Corniche Pictures are producing “He Dreams of Giants.” Lucy Darwin produces alongside Fulton, and is in Cannes talking to sales agents about the film, which is being edited.
- 5/11/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
It’s almost here.. for us Gilliam fans this is something akin to the Holy Grail; a lost, presumed missing and never to be seen film from one of cinema’s true visionaries. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has its first trailer, decades after cameras first rolled on the initial version of the story.
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s sterling 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha told the whole sorry story of the director’s ill fated attempt to get the film shot back in 2000. It’s a riveting exploration of a passion project falling apart, and it is a heartbreaking film. Never one to lie down and think of England, Gilliam was able to resurrect the project with Jonathan Pryce, Adam Driver, Olga Kurylenko, Joana Ribeiro, and Stellan Skarsgard taking on the leading roles. Now we have our first look at the film.
Problems still hover over the film however,...
Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s sterling 2002 documentary Lost in La Mancha told the whole sorry story of the director’s ill fated attempt to get the film shot back in 2000. It’s a riveting exploration of a passion project falling apart, and it is a heartbreaking film. Never one to lie down and think of England, Gilliam was able to resurrect the project with Jonathan Pryce, Adam Driver, Olga Kurylenko, Joana Ribeiro, and Stellan Skarsgard taking on the leading roles. Now we have our first look at the film.
Problems still hover over the film however,...
- 4/6/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
At a Mojave Desert high school, a group of committed teachers and a principal leave no struggling student behind. The new documentary “The Bad Kids” follows a group of students and faculty at the continuation school Black Rock High School as they contend with daily frustrations on the road to a more fulfilling life. The film follows three students: Joey, an aspiring musician with a drug-addicted mother; Lee, a young father balancing his own education with parental responsibilities and Jennifer, an abuse survivor. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
Read More: Meet the ‘Bad Kids’ About to Take Sundance By Storm in Exclusive Poster
The film is directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. The two have directed two prior feature-length documentaries: The first is the 2002 film “Lost in La Mancha,” about director Terry Gilliam’s doomed attempt to get his version of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...
Read More: Meet the ‘Bad Kids’ About to Take Sundance By Storm in Exclusive Poster
The film is directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. The two have directed two prior feature-length documentaries: The first is the 2002 film “Lost in La Mancha,” about director Terry Gilliam’s doomed attempt to get his version of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...
- 12/20/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
"How many other people have been through this?" FilmRise has debuted a trailer for the documentary The Bad Kids, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to quite a bit of buzz earlier this year. The doc has also played at True/False and Hot Docs, which I'm mentioning only to show it's worthy of attention. The Bad Kids is about a group of teachers at a Mojave Desert high school who take an unconventional approach to improve the lives of their struggling students. It's a powerful film about recognizing there are alternatives to helping educate at risk teens other than giving up on them or locking them up. From the trailer, this looks like one of the most important docs all year - and I'm definitely interested in watching it. Get a look below. Here's the trailer (+ poster) for Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe's documentary The Bad Kids, from...
- 10/26/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Growing up is hard, but when faced with the challenges of teenage pregnancy, homelessness, substance abuse, and more, it can feel nearly impossible. But at Black Rock Continuation High School in California, teenagers who face tremendous difficulties in their personal lives are given the space to thrive and the hope for a better future, and it’s all captured in the upcoming documentary “The Bad Kids.”
Read More: Sundance Review: Documentary ‘The Bad Kids’ From ‘Lost In La Mancha’ Directors Keith Fulton And Lou Pepe
Directed by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe (the duo behind “Lost In La Mancha”), their film, which won a Special Jury Award Winner for Vérité Filmmaking at Sundance, takes an observant look at the students at Black Rock and the guidance they receive from Principal Vonda Viland, who has an unflappable devotion to her students.
Continue reading ‘The Bad Kids’ Get Another Chance In Trailer...
Read More: Sundance Review: Documentary ‘The Bad Kids’ From ‘Lost In La Mancha’ Directors Keith Fulton And Lou Pepe
Directed by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe (the duo behind “Lost In La Mancha”), their film, which won a Special Jury Award Winner for Vérité Filmmaking at Sundance, takes an observant look at the students at Black Rock and the guidance they receive from Principal Vonda Viland, who has an unflappable devotion to her students.
Continue reading ‘The Bad Kids’ Get Another Chance In Trailer...
- 10/26/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Plus: Warner Bros dates Annabelle 2, Untitled event movie; FilmRise acquires The Bad Kids
The San Francisco Film Society has announced the Big Nights selections for the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival, set to run from April 21–May 5.
Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny will open the festival and the closing night selection is Jesse Moss’ documentary The Bandit (pictured), a look at the making of the Burt Reynolds film Smokey And The Bandit.
James Schamus’ feature directorial debut Indignation is the Centrepiece selection.
Warner Bros has scheduled a raft of 2017 releases and announced on Tuesday it will open the New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow comedy Fist Fight on February 17. New Line’s horror film Annabelle 2 will debut on May 19, Untitled WB Event Film on August 11, and Ben Affleck crime drama Live By Night on October 20.FilmRise has acquired worldwide rights from Preferred Content to Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe’s Sundance...
The San Francisco Film Society has announced the Big Nights selections for the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival, set to run from April 21–May 5.
Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny will open the festival and the closing night selection is Jesse Moss’ documentary The Bandit (pictured), a look at the making of the Burt Reynolds film Smokey And The Bandit.
James Schamus’ feature directorial debut Indignation is the Centrepiece selection.
Warner Bros has scheduled a raft of 2017 releases and announced on Tuesday it will open the New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow comedy Fist Fight on February 17. New Line’s horror film Annabelle 2 will debut on May 19, Untitled WB Event Film on August 11, and Ben Affleck crime drama Live By Night on October 20.FilmRise has acquired worldwide rights from Preferred Content to Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe’s Sundance...
- 3/22/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: Warner Bros dates Annabelle 2, Untitled event movie; FilmRise acquires The Bad Kids
The San Francisco Film Society has announced the Big Nights selections for the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival, set to run from April 21–May 5.
Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny will open the festival and the closing night selection is Jesse Moss’ documentary The Bandit (pictured), a look at the making of the Burt Reynolds film Smokey And The Bandit.
James Schamus’ feature directorial debut Indignation is the Centrepiece selection.
Warner Bros has scheduled a raft of 2017 releases and announced on Tuesday it will open the New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow comedy Fist Fight on February 17. New Line’s horror film Annabelle 2 will debut on May 19, Untitled WB Event Film on August 11, and Ben Affleck crime drama Live By Night on October 20.FilmRise has acquired worldwide rights from Preferred Content to Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe’s Sundance...
The San Francisco Film Society has announced the Big Nights selections for the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival, set to run from April 21–May 5.
Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny will open the festival and the closing night selection is Jesse Moss’ documentary The Bandit (pictured), a look at the making of the Burt Reynolds film Smokey And The Bandit.
James Schamus’ feature directorial debut Indignation is the Centrepiece selection.
Warner Bros has scheduled a raft of 2017 releases and announced on Tuesday it will open the New Line Cinema and Village Roadshow comedy Fist Fight on February 17. New Line’s horror film Annabelle 2 will debut on May 19, Untitled WB Event Film on August 11, and Ben Affleck crime drama Live By Night on October 20.FilmRise has acquired worldwide rights from Preferred Content to Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe’s Sundance...
- 3/22/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
FilmRise has nabbed worldwide distribution rights to Sundance Film Festival documentary The Bad Kids from directors Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe. The docu will receive a theatrical run in September and make its television debut on the upcoming season of the PBS series Independent Lens. Set at Black Rock Continuation High School — in the impoverished Mojave Desert Community — the film follows Principal Viland, who is determined to realize the potential of her students…...
- 3/22/2016
- Deadline
U.S. – DRAMATICGrand Jury PrizeThe Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker)Directing AwardSwiss Army Man (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)Special Jury AwardAs You Are (Miles Joris-Peyrafitte)Special Jury Award – Breakthrough Performance Spa Night (Joe Seo)Special Jury Award – Individual PerformanceMorris from America (Craig Robinson)The Intervention (Melanie Lynskey)Waldo Salt Screenwriting AwardMorris From America (Chad Hartigan)Audience AwardThe Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker)Next Audience AwardFirst Girl I Loved (Kerem Sanga)
U.S. – DOCUMENTARYGrand Jury PrizeWeiner (Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman)Directing AwardLife, Animated (Roger Ross Williams)Special Jury Award for EditingNUTS! (Penny Lane, Thom Stylinski)Special Jury Award for Social Impact FilmmakingTrapped (Dawn Porter)Special Jury Award for WritingKate Plays Christine (Robert Greene)Special Jury Award for Vérité FilmmakingThe Bad Kids (Lou Pepe, Keith Fulton)Audience AwardJim: The James Foley Story (Brian Oakes)
World Cinema – DRAMATICGrand Jury PrizeSand Storm (Elite Zexer)Directing AwardBelgica (Felix van Groeningen)Special Jury Award...
U.S. – DOCUMENTARYGrand Jury PrizeWeiner (Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman)Directing AwardLife, Animated (Roger Ross Williams)Special Jury Award for EditingNUTS! (Penny Lane, Thom Stylinski)Special Jury Award for Social Impact FilmmakingTrapped (Dawn Porter)Special Jury Award for WritingKate Plays Christine (Robert Greene)Special Jury Award for Vérité FilmmakingThe Bad Kids (Lou Pepe, Keith Fulton)Audience AwardJim: The James Foley Story (Brian Oakes)
World Cinema – DRAMATICGrand Jury PrizeSand Storm (Elite Zexer)Directing AwardBelgica (Felix van Groeningen)Special Jury Award...
- 2/1/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Nate Parker's racial drama "The Birth of a Nation" took both the top honors of the grand jury prize and the audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival which held its ceremony tonight.
The film, a drama about the life of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion he led in antebellum Virginia, made headlines several days ago when it was acquired by Fox Searchlight for a record-shattering $17.5 million.
It also marks the fourth year in a row where one film has taken the top two prizes in U.S. dramatic competition following 2013's "Fruitvale Station," 2014's "Whiplash" and last year's "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl". The U.S. documentary grand jury prize was awarded to "Weiner," a behind-the-scenes portrayal of disgraced politician Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign.
In the World Cinema dramatic competition the grand jury prize went to Elite Ziker's "Sand Storm" which deals with...
The film, a drama about the life of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion he led in antebellum Virginia, made headlines several days ago when it was acquired by Fox Searchlight for a record-shattering $17.5 million.
It also marks the fourth year in a row where one film has taken the top two prizes in U.S. dramatic competition following 2013's "Fruitvale Station," 2014's "Whiplash" and last year's "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl". The U.S. documentary grand jury prize was awarded to "Weiner," a behind-the-scenes portrayal of disgraced politician Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign.
In the World Cinema dramatic competition the grand jury prize went to Elite Ziker's "Sand Storm" which deals with...
- 1/31/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Nate Parker’s directorial debut claimed the Us Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and corresponding audience award at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, capping off a barnstorming week for the slave revolt drama.
Last week The Birth Of A Nation sparked a bidding frenzy that resulted in the biggest on-site deal in the festival’s history as Fox Searchlight paid $17.5m for worldwide rights.
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s film about a rapping Afghan teenager opposed to arranged marriage, earned similar double honours as it won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary and audience awards.
The Us Grand Jury Prize: Documentary award went to Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s Weiner, while the audience voted for Brian Oakes’ Jim: The James Foley Story.
The World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic went to Elite Zexer’s Sand Story and the audience choice was Carlos del Castillo’s Between Land And Sea.
In other winners:...
Last week The Birth Of A Nation sparked a bidding frenzy that resulted in the biggest on-site deal in the festival’s history as Fox Searchlight paid $17.5m for worldwide rights.
Sonita, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s film about a rapping Afghan teenager opposed to arranged marriage, earned similar double honours as it won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary and audience awards.
The Us Grand Jury Prize: Documentary award went to Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg’s Weiner, while the audience voted for Brian Oakes’ Jim: The James Foley Story.
The World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic went to Elite Zexer’s Sand Story and the audience choice was Carlos del Castillo’s Between Land And Sea.
In other winners:...
- 1/30/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Lou Pepe has worked with long-time collaborator Keith Fulton ever since the two directed a feature length documentary about the making of 12 Monkeys in 1996. Their latest film, The Bad Kids, is a documentary in the American direct cinema tradition of Frederick Wiseman. In this interview with Filmmaker, Dp and co-director Pepe discusses the difficulties of shooting direct cinema with a single camera, working in natural light, and scheduling around teenagers. The film premiered in the U.S. Documentary section of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the […]...
- 1/29/2016
- by Soheil Rezayazdi
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Lou Pepe has worked with long-time collaborator Keith Fulton ever since the two directed a feature length documentary about the making of 12 Monkeys in 1996. Their latest film, The Bad Kids, is a documentary in the American direct cinema tradition of Frederick Wiseman. In this interview with Filmmaker, Dp and co-director Pepe discusses the difficulties of shooting direct cinema with a single camera, working in natural light, and scheduling around teenagers. The film premiered in the U.S. Documentary section of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your film? What were the […]...
- 1/29/2016
- by Soheil Rezayazdi
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“What do you want out of life?” a probation officer asks the teenage Joey in the opening moments of “The Bad Kids.” It’s the kind of question that Joey, and the other Californian teens profiled in the the new documentary from directors Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe (the team behind “Lost In La Mancha”), have likely never considered. Coming from backgrounds of domestic instability, teenage pregnancy, homelessness, substance abuse, and more, for many, their lives are about survival, and the future comes one day at a time. However, Black Rock High School in the Mojave Desert offers an alternative to the regular school system where these kinds of kids are left to falter, often dropping out. Read More: Check Out All Of Our 2016 Sundance Film Festival Coverage Taking us into the lives of these kids and halls of the school, “The Bad Kids” has a simple purpose — to show...
- 1/24/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
“The Zero Theorem” is just a few weeks away from being revealed at the Venice Film Festival and expectations are high for Terry Gilliam's new venture into Orwellian territory. A few weeks ago, a trailer unspooled online and was promptly eradicated from every corner of the interwebs due to copyright claims. So for those of you who didn't manage to catch a glimpse of the trailer, you can comfort yourselves by watching the videos below.The first video documents the making of "12 Monkeys" (which is now being turned into a TV series), Gilliam's 1995 science fiction masterpiece starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt and based on/inspired by Chris Marker's seminal short film "La Jetée." This is not a regular making-of used as filler for the bonus section of a DVD but an in-depth documentary detailing every bit of Gilliam's creative process on "12 Monkeys" and examining his love/hate relationship with Hollywood.
- 8/7/2013
- by Jason Guimaron
- The Playlist
Each week I write an original newsletter that I usually don’t repost to the blog. Here’s this week’s, about a favorite documentary I just found on YouTube. To receive future newsletters, you can sign up for free here.
If I ever teach a course in the film business, there’s a documentary I’m going to make required viewing. My guess is that you probably haven’t seen it because it was made for AMC a few years ago as part of a short-lived strand of docs about film. It’s called Malkovich’s Mail, and it was directed by the independent filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. The doc’s concept is simple. Fulton and Pepe visit the production office of John Malkovich’s production company, Mr. Mudd, and wade through his slush pile of unsolicited treatments and screenplays. They take a handful of these scripts...
If I ever teach a course in the film business, there’s a documentary I’m going to make required viewing. My guess is that you probably haven’t seen it because it was made for AMC a few years ago as part of a short-lived strand of docs about film. It’s called Malkovich’s Mail, and it was directed by the independent filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe. The doc’s concept is simple. Fulton and Pepe visit the production office of John Malkovich’s production company, Mr. Mudd, and wade through his slush pile of unsolicited treatments and screenplays. They take a handful of these scripts...
- 8/21/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
For over a century, it has been one of the world's most burning questions: If Abraham Lincoln fought his own clone, who would win?
Okay, so maybe we're overstating the importance of the question, but that isn't going to stop Hollywood from answering it. And next year's showdown between "Lincoln" and "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is just one example of the many projects in the movie pipeline that are fighting with their own clones. Everyone from Snow White to Osama Bin Laden is racing to get to the theater before their evil twin gets there first.
So with that in mind, we thought we'd take a look at some of the films that may soon have you seeing double. Because in Hollywood, if an idea is good enough to film, it's good enough to copy.
'Untitled Snow White Project' vs. 'Snow White and the Huntsman' 'Untitled Snow White Project'
Starring:...
Okay, so maybe we're overstating the importance of the question, but that isn't going to stop Hollywood from answering it. And next year's showdown between "Lincoln" and "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" is just one example of the many projects in the movie pipeline that are fighting with their own clones. Everyone from Snow White to Osama Bin Laden is racing to get to the theater before their evil twin gets there first.
So with that in mind, we thought we'd take a look at some of the films that may soon have you seeing double. Because in Hollywood, if an idea is good enough to film, it's good enough to copy.
'Untitled Snow White Project' vs. 'Snow White and the Huntsman' 'Untitled Snow White Project'
Starring:...
- 6/22/2011
- by Scott Harris
- NextMovie
Updated through 11/24.
"Ein ewiger Pechvogel?" asks Frank Noack in Der Tagesspiegel. Loosely translated, Noack's wondering out loud whether Terry Gilliam, who turns 70 today, is doomed to an eternal streak of bad luck. Gilliam's ongoing quest to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote certainly seems to be. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Lost in La Mancha documents the series of misadventures that brought an end to the first go round nearly ten year ago now. Gilliam revived the project last year — and his funding collapsed again this September. In between, there was the Brothers Grimm debacle ("the Weinsteins rode roughshod over me," Gilliam would eventually say) and, of course, the tragic death of Heath Ledger during the making of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
"Ein ewiger Pechvogel?" asks Frank Noack in Der Tagesspiegel. Loosely translated, Noack's wondering out loud whether Terry Gilliam, who turns 70 today, is doomed to an eternal streak of bad luck. Gilliam's ongoing quest to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote certainly seems to be. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Lost in La Mancha documents the series of misadventures that brought an end to the first go round nearly ten year ago now. Gilliam revived the project last year — and his funding collapsed again this September. In between, there was the Brothers Grimm debacle ("the Weinsteins rode roughshod over me," Gilliam would eventually say) and, of course, the tragic death of Heath Ledger during the making of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
- 11/24/2010
- MUBI
Variety is reporting that Terry Gilliam's second chance at filming "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" has fallen apart it.
The helmer said the following on Saturday at the Deauville American Film Festival:
"The financing collapsed about a month and a half ago. I shouldn't be here. The plan was to be shooting 'Quixote' right now."
But he still wants to push on with the project:
"Robert Duval is Quixote, Ewan McGregor is also there, and we are looking for new financing right now."
Gilliam has been trying to make the film for decades.
Previous attempts to shoot were memorably captured in Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's 2002 doc "Lost in La Mancha."
Source: Variety
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The helmer said the following on Saturday at the Deauville American Film Festival:
"The financing collapsed about a month and a half ago. I shouldn't be here. The plan was to be shooting 'Quixote' right now."
But he still wants to push on with the project:
"Robert Duval is Quixote, Ewan McGregor is also there, and we are looking for new financing right now."
Gilliam has been trying to make the film for decades.
Previous attempts to shoot were memorably captured in Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's 2002 doc "Lost in La Mancha."
Source: Variety
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- 9/6/2010
- by amcsts@gmail.com
- AMC - Script to Screen
HollywoodNews.com: Terry Gilliam’s second go at his quirky epic “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” looks to be cursed again.
The film which stars Robert Duval as Quixote and Ewan McGregor has lost its financing.
Gilliam tried making the film with Johnny Depp back in the earlier part of the millennium; however the production was plagued with a myriad of hiccups, one being that the production flooded. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, fave documentarians of Gilliam, captured the mishaps of “Quixote” in their 2002 feature “Lost in La Mancha.”
Gilliam revealed the latest incarnation’s botched financing at the Deauville American Film Festival on Saturday. Gilliam is being honored at the festival and the event is running a retrospective of his work.
“I shouldn’t be here. The plan was to be shooting ‘Quixote’ right now,” said the director.
Variety had the story.
“Robert Duval is Quixote, Ewan McGregor is also there,...
The film which stars Robert Duval as Quixote and Ewan McGregor has lost its financing.
Gilliam tried making the film with Johnny Depp back in the earlier part of the millennium; however the production was plagued with a myriad of hiccups, one being that the production flooded. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, fave documentarians of Gilliam, captured the mishaps of “Quixote” in their 2002 feature “Lost in La Mancha.”
Gilliam revealed the latest incarnation’s botched financing at the Deauville American Film Festival on Saturday. Gilliam is being honored at the festival and the event is running a retrospective of his work.
“I shouldn’t be here. The plan was to be shooting ‘Quixote’ right now,” said the director.
Variety had the story.
“Robert Duval is Quixote, Ewan McGregor is also there,...
- 9/6/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Though his failure in getting the project off the ground was an epic enough venture to make an entire tragic documentary, Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe's Lost in La Mancha, it looks like Terry Gilliam really is back for another round with his Don Quixote project. Back in December, we heard Robert Duvall would be the man from La Mancha, and MovieLine recently caught up with the actor who revealed some details on this iteration of the classic Miguel de Cervantes novel, but it doesn't sound like it's any closer to getting off the ground, and the fact that it has all the craziness we've come to expect from Gilliam doesn't bode well for it. The film has gone through a few different versions; the first one followed an ad executive who travels back in time and is mistaken for the character Sancho Panza. It later took the form of...
- 4/27/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
For art and entertainment, 'making of' films can rival the movies they document, says Mark Kermode
Every now and then, a documentary about the making of a film rivals its subject for both art and entertainment. Take Les Blank's extraordinary Burden of Dreams which, arguably, documents obsession and the search for "ecstatic truth" as effectively as Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. "I live by this movie, I die by this movie!" declares Herzog with a conviction which would shame Klaus Kinski's titular madman and which Blank backs up with breathtakingly confrontational on-set footage.
Or what about Hearts of Darkness, in which Martin Sheen suffers a heart attack and Francis Ford Coppola mutates into a modern-day Colonel Kurtz while filming Apocalypse Now? "My movie is not about Vietnam, my movie is Vietnam!" says Coppola with Brandoesque bravado, before admitting: "We had too much equipment, too much money and little by little we went insane.
Every now and then, a documentary about the making of a film rivals its subject for both art and entertainment. Take Les Blank's extraordinary Burden of Dreams which, arguably, documents obsession and the search for "ecstatic truth" as effectively as Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. "I live by this movie, I die by this movie!" declares Herzog with a conviction which would shame Klaus Kinski's titular madman and which Blank backs up with breathtakingly confrontational on-set footage.
Or what about Hearts of Darkness, in which Martin Sheen suffers a heart attack and Francis Ford Coppola mutates into a modern-day Colonel Kurtz while filming Apocalypse Now? "My movie is not about Vietnam, my movie is Vietnam!" says Coppola with Brandoesque bravado, before admitting: "We had too much equipment, too much money and little by little we went insane.
- 4/10/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Acting students, if they're lucky, find classes that are satisfying, challenging, and fully worth the time and money. But once in a while, they wind up in a class that rises above and beyond mere satisfaction. Something about the rapport between instructor and students—and among students themselves—clicks perfectly. Everyone ends up making sweet, surprising artistic leaps forward.When you find a class like that, it's only natural to want to keep the magic going. Actors sometimes decide to take the play they've been exploring in their scene study class, secure a theater, and put the whole thing up for an audience. Usually those plans fall apart pretty quickly. A week after the last class meeting, everyone has moved on to the next endeavor. But Back Stage found actors who didn't lose the momentum—who managed to collaborate with fellow students to create fully realized productions. These performers generously...
- 3/25/2010
- backstage.com
For the first 20 minutes or so of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Terry Gilliam's latest labor of love and chaos, I fought off the suspicion that I'd rather be watching a documentary about the film's blighted production. This is partly Gilliam's fault -- the introductory sequence is painfully oblique, laborious in its attempts at whimsy and off-kilter charm -- and partly that of Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, whose Lost in La Mancha, a chronicle of Gilliam's disastrous attempt to adapt Don Quixote, was as layered and entertaining as the director's best work, all of which is over a decade behind him. Famously hamstrung by the January 2008 death of its star, Heath Ledger, Imaginarium was saved by the subbing-in of three actors to cover Ledger's unfinished scenes; the film then faced the death of one of its producers and continuous funding and sale snags. The Gilliam curse was beginning to outpace,...
- 12/28/2009
- Movieline
“The Brothers Grimm” aside, I tend to believe that Monty Python alumni Terry Gilliam is a cinematic genius. “Brazil” is one of my favorite movies ever bestowed upon mankind, as is “Time Bandits” and the slightly misunderstood “Tideland.” As such, I’m pretty pumped to hear that the director’s long-awaited dream project, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” is on the fast track to becoming a reality. For those who are a little slow on the uptake, Gilliam’s adventures in Quixoteland were chronicled in Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s 2002 documentary “Lost in La Mancha,” a film that should be seen by anyone with a passing interest in how movies are made. I highly recommend checking it out. Good stuff all the way around and back again. While doing a little PR work for the British premiere of “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” Gilliam had quite a bit...
- 10/9/2009
- by Todd
- Beyond Hollywood
- Available today, until next Thursday (August 20th) - SnagFilms SummerFest is presenting Zombie Girl. Without knowing anything about the film, you'd think this is a low budget horror film - but au contraire readers, this is a documentary film that follows the enthusiasm of 12 year-old Emily Hagins, who decides to write and direct her own feature length Zombie horror flick. Just like how Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe followed Terry Gilliam and struck gold with Lost in La Mancha, here Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall and Erik Mauck followed a 12 year-old and the doc has a pretty outstanding film festival life - it was the Official Selection of AFI Dallas international film festival, winner of the spirit award in Slamdance and was the official selection in the HotDocs festival. ...
- 8/14/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Johnny Depp has pulled out of starring in a movie about Spanish literary legend Don Quixote - after a series of disasters delayed the filming schedule by a decade.
Eccentric director Terry Gilliam lined up Depp and Jean Rochefort to appear in the film back in 2000, and his attempts to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote were chronicled by filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe in 2002 movie Lost in La Mancha.
The filming of the oddball epic was set back by scheduling and financial issues and weather-damaged sets, but Gilliam has always been adamant the project will go ahead with Depp on board.
Rochefort pulled out of the movie after suffering a herniated disc - and now the Pirates of the Caribbean actor has followed suit, due to scheduling conflicts.
Gilliam, 68, says, "I can now honestly say that I'm not working with Johnny on Don Quixote. He's booked himself up on a lot of other films.
"I wanted to shoot Don Quixote next spring. He said he's not available and we have both agreed that I'm going to die soon, so it would be nice to get this film under my belt."
Depp was among the movie stars who stepped in to help Gilliam complete his film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus after Heath Ledger's death last year.
Eccentric director Terry Gilliam lined up Depp and Jean Rochefort to appear in the film back in 2000, and his attempts to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote were chronicled by filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe in 2002 movie Lost in La Mancha.
The filming of the oddball epic was set back by scheduling and financial issues and weather-damaged sets, but Gilliam has always been adamant the project will go ahead with Depp on board.
Rochefort pulled out of the movie after suffering a herniated disc - and now the Pirates of the Caribbean actor has followed suit, due to scheduling conflicts.
Gilliam, 68, says, "I can now honestly say that I'm not working with Johnny on Don Quixote. He's booked himself up on a lot of other films.
"I wanted to shoot Don Quixote next spring. He said he's not available and we have both agreed that I'm going to die soon, so it would be nice to get this film under my belt."
Depp was among the movie stars who stepped in to help Gilliam complete his film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus after Heath Ledger's death last year.
- 8/6/2009
- WENN
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