The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Lost in La Mancha review – landmark doc of Terry Gilliam’s cinematic nightmare
Gilliam’s epic travails filming Don Quixote are well worth seeing again – and should be on the syllabus at every film school
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Ranked
The top 10 long-awaited films – ranked!Following substantial delays, anticipation is sky-high for Tenet and the new Bond, No Time to Die. But from Eraserhead to The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, plenty of movies have made their audiences wait
Screen bites
I watched 627 minutes of Adam Driver movies because what else am I going to doSBS On Demand is streaming more than 10 hours of his features. Our isolated film critic took the bait and watched them all
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote review – Gilliam’s knight proves errant
This long-delayed sidelong look at Cervantes gets lost in its own metatextual jokes
2020 culture preview
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First look review
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote review – Terry Gilliam's epic journey finds a joyous endTerry Gilliam suffers stroke ahead of Don Quixote's Cannes premiere
Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote film to receive premiere at Cannes after two-decade wait
Film blog
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: trailer for Terry Gilliam's long-awaited film finally released
Lost in La Mancha's Jean Rochefort, veteran French actor, dies at 87
Rochefort, who scored a major international success in The Hairdresser’s Husband, was also cast as Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Cervantes adaptation
Shortcuts
After 17 years, has Terry Gilliam finally broken the curse of Don Quixote?Terry Gilliam denies damaging Portuguese convent during filming
As Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote stalls again, Disney plans rival movie
Screenwriter Billy Ray reportedly working on adaptation of classic novel about the delusional, romantic knight
Terry Gilliam on finally filming Don Quixote: 'Adam Driver is bankable! Thank God for Star Wars!'
The director speaks in Cannes about the ‘disease’ of trying to shoot Cervantes’s book, casting man-of-the-moment Driver, and the guilt he feels about the shoot for Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Terry Gilliam gets greenlight to restart Don Quixote film
Jack O’Connell and John Hurt to star in long-delayed Cervantes adaptation that was abandoned in 1999 after series of disasters struck shoot
Terry Gilliam says he will finally get his Don Quixote film off the ground
Director says he will begin shooting late this year, but the concept behind the film has radically altered to a modern-day, self-referential fable
