With a delicately morose charm, Spanish actress-turned-director Liz Lobato is presenting her debut feature project, “Tierra de Nuestras Madres” as part of the 11th Fanfic Industria’s Ibero-American Work In Progress strand.
The farcical fable scrutinizing globalization takes place in the village of La Mancha, where residents know each other thoroughly and tend to their routines like clockwork. There, beloved curmudgeon and central protagonist Rosario makes the rounds selling drug-laced fig salt to her neighbors as the town’s unknowingly sold out from under them by a bankrupt mayor.
Shot in black and white, the film gives far more than it takes and absurdly relays the somber tale of corruption and a community bound to its roots so tightly its willing to sacrifice a soul or two to stay put, as futile an endeavor as that may be.
The project is a co-production between Nieves Moroto of Spain’s Me...
The farcical fable scrutinizing globalization takes place in the village of La Mancha, where residents know each other thoroughly and tend to their routines like clockwork. There, beloved curmudgeon and central protagonist Rosario makes the rounds selling drug-laced fig salt to her neighbors as the town’s unknowingly sold out from under them by a bankrupt mayor.
Shot in black and white, the film gives far more than it takes and absurdly relays the somber tale of corruption and a community bound to its roots so tightly its willing to sacrifice a soul or two to stay put, as futile an endeavor as that may be.
The project is a co-production between Nieves Moroto of Spain’s Me...
- 8/18/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
For quite some time we’ve heard Quentin Tarantino would venture into a new medium with The Video Archives Podcast, which doubles in interest as a reunion with Pulp Fiction… well, what he did on the movie remains ambiguous, so we’ll simply say former collaborator Roger Avary after a supposed rift. (We might have Bret Easton Ellis to thank—not often you can type that.) It, in the man’s words, would be two former video-store clerks taking “one movie from that era, the ‘70s, ‘80s, or the ‘90s, the time of the store, and just kind of examine it, and it’ll be us and a guest and they’ll examine it too. They’re a customer and we’ll just talk about stuff.”
The first episode has finally arrived, their project already bigger than promised: two movies, with the promise of three in future installments. (The first...
The first episode has finally arrived, their project already bigger than promised: two movies, with the promise of three in future installments. (The first...
- 7/19/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Hugh Downs, who began appearing on television at the dawn of the medium and gained fame as co-host of 20/20, host of Today and as Jack Paar’s sidekick on the Tonight Show, has died.
The Washington Post and New York Times cited a statement from Downs’ family in reporting his death on July 1 at his home in Scottsdale, Az. The cause was reported to be a heart ailment, and not related to Covid-19.
Downs appeared on air for more than 10,000 hours, which was a record until Regis Philbin eclipsed it in the 2000s. He officially signed off in 1999 after more than a half-century on the air.
Viewers in the 1980s and 1990s got to know Downs during his long co-hosting stint with Barbara Walters on ABC’s 20/20. In her 2008 memoir, Audition, the Post recalled, Walters noted their different approaches but also her fondness for Downs.
“Hugh and I had different personalities and different styles,...
The Washington Post and New York Times cited a statement from Downs’ family in reporting his death on July 1 at his home in Scottsdale, Az. The cause was reported to be a heart ailment, and not related to Covid-19.
Downs appeared on air for more than 10,000 hours, which was a record until Regis Philbin eclipsed it in the 2000s. He officially signed off in 1999 after more than a half-century on the air.
Viewers in the 1980s and 1990s got to know Downs during his long co-hosting stint with Barbara Walters on ABC’s 20/20. In her 2008 memoir, Audition, the Post recalled, Walters noted their different approaches but also her fondness for Downs.
“Hugh and I had different personalities and different styles,...
- 7/2/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Kevin Costner in Tin Cup is available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive. Ordering information can be found Here
An unreachable shot to the green. A hopeless romance. Driving-range pro Roy McAvoy can’t resist an impossible challenge. Each is what he calls a defining moment. You define it. Or it defines you.
With lady-killer charm and a game that can make par with garden tools, Kevin Costner rejoins Bull Durham filmmaker Ron Shelton for another funny tale of the games people play. For Costner’s Roy, golf is a head — and heart — game. On both counts, that’s where shrink Molly Griswold (Rene Russo) comes in. She’s big-city, Roy’s small-time, and he believes only the grandest of gestures can lure her away from a slick touring pro (Don Johnson) and earn her love. So Roy and his dutiful caddy (Cheech Marin) set out to do the impossible: win the Us Open.
An unreachable shot to the green. A hopeless romance. Driving-range pro Roy McAvoy can’t resist an impossible challenge. Each is what he calls a defining moment. You define it. Or it defines you.
With lady-killer charm and a game that can make par with garden tools, Kevin Costner rejoins Bull Durham filmmaker Ron Shelton for another funny tale of the games people play. For Costner’s Roy, golf is a head — and heart — game. On both counts, that’s where shrink Molly Griswold (Rene Russo) comes in. She’s big-city, Roy’s small-time, and he believes only the grandest of gestures can lure her away from a slick touring pro (Don Johnson) and earn her love. So Roy and his dutiful caddy (Cheech Marin) set out to do the impossible: win the Us Open.
- 4/17/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A remake of a controversial 1974 French comedy that also doubles as a feature-length spin-off for a character who appeared in two scenes of a Coen brothers movie 22 years ago, “The Jesus Rolls” is a picaresque curio about an accused pedophile named “The” Jesus Quintana — a cartoonish Puerto Rican man played by the film’s Italian-American writer-director — who gets out of jail, reunites with his best friend, and immediately embarks upon a sweet and breezy crime spree that’s fueled by stolen cars and borrowed women. In other words, .
That isn’t always a bad thing, of course. The freewheeling Jonathan Demme energy only grows more infectious as the film drifts along, Émilie Simon’s buoyant flamenco score finds the zest in each scene, and the lightly fantastical “none of this matters” attitude feels like manna from heaven in an age of interconnected cinematic universes (Turturro’s utter disinterest in rehashing...
That isn’t always a bad thing, of course. The freewheeling Jonathan Demme energy only grows more infectious as the film drifts along, Émilie Simon’s buoyant flamenco score finds the zest in each scene, and the lightly fantastical “none of this matters” attitude feels like manna from heaven in an age of interconnected cinematic universes (Turturro’s utter disinterest in rehashing...
- 2/26/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Terry Gilliam’s near-mythical movie finally arrives on the screen. Was it worth the wait?
We’ve all experienced that sensation of something sounding or looking good in our heads -- a note we wanted to write to someone, a story we wanted to pen, perhaps even a film we wanted to make -- and then the disappointment of it actually coming to existence on the page or screen and the thing not being exactly how we envisioned it in the seclusion of our minds.
In a strange way, Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote -- a film that the maverick director of Brazil and 12 Monkeys has been attempting to make for three decades -- engenders the same sensation in the viewer. After all these years, and with the movie’s almost legendary status as the one that kept getting away, one can’t help but wonder if all the time,...
We’ve all experienced that sensation of something sounding or looking good in our heads -- a note we wanted to write to someone, a story we wanted to pen, perhaps even a film we wanted to make -- and then the disappointment of it actually coming to existence on the page or screen and the thing not being exactly how we envisioned it in the seclusion of our minds.
In a strange way, Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote -- a film that the maverick director of Brazil and 12 Monkeys has been attempting to make for three decades -- engenders the same sensation in the viewer. After all these years, and with the movie’s almost legendary status as the one that kept getting away, one can’t help but wonder if all the time,...
- 4/10/2019
- Den of Geek
Terry Gilliam wonders if The Man Who Killed Don Quixote can live up to its larger than life production trouble. The trouble is due to the insecurities Quixote faced being an independent production, but that independence is also how Gilliam’s kept the project alive long after a studio would have scrapped it.
The movie’s storied production history is well-documented, including Amazon’s last-minute decision to pull out of the project when producer Paulo Branco claimed rights to the film, which nearly derailed their 2018 premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
In our conversation with Gilliam we discuss how Jonathan Pryce’s Don Quixote built his own ramshackle armor, how directing is like being “an ignorant peasant who knows no better,” and his feelings about Fathom Event’s one-night-only screening strategy.
The Film Stage: I found Quixote’s costume so beautiful. It looks like a leftover costume from the movie within a movie,...
The movie’s storied production history is well-documented, including Amazon’s last-minute decision to pull out of the project when producer Paulo Branco claimed rights to the film, which nearly derailed their 2018 premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
In our conversation with Gilliam we discuss how Jonathan Pryce’s Don Quixote built his own ramshackle armor, how directing is like being “an ignorant peasant who knows no better,” and his feelings about Fathom Event’s one-night-only screening strategy.
The Film Stage: I found Quixote’s costume so beautiful. It looks like a leftover costume from the movie within a movie,...
- 4/10/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Plot: A successful but vacuous commercial director who once helmed an inspired version of Don Quixote finds himself playing Sancho Panza to a mad shoemaker's Quixote in Spain. Review: 30 years is a long time to build up anticipation for a movie, especially one so notorious as Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, which has to be considered one of…...
- 4/10/2019
- by Eric Walkuski
- JoBlo.com
Terry Gilliam has tried to make his film “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” for over two decades and barring some final unforeseen tragedy, his film will open in theaters on April 10 for one night only as part of a release with Screen Media and Fathom Events.
It’s the classic production from hell, complete with on-set injuries, lost funding, natural disasters and outsized ambitions worthy of the hero of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic novel. Even after it wrapped, a lawsuit threatened to derail the film from screening at Cannes, and Amazon Studios pulled out of a deal to distribute the film in the U.S.
So the irony isn’t lost on anyone that Gilliam’s quest to make a movie about Don Quixote has been nothing if not quixotic. Here’s a not-so-brief timeline of every step on the road to Gilliam getting his film made.
Also Read:...
It’s the classic production from hell, complete with on-set injuries, lost funding, natural disasters and outsized ambitions worthy of the hero of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic novel. Even after it wrapped, a lawsuit threatened to derail the film from screening at Cannes, and Amazon Studios pulled out of a deal to distribute the film in the U.S.
So the irony isn’t lost on anyone that Gilliam’s quest to make a movie about Don Quixote has been nothing if not quixotic. Here’s a not-so-brief timeline of every step on the road to Gilliam getting his film made.
Also Read:...
- 4/10/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
You’d be forgiving for thinking I’m pulling your leg and telling a belated April Fool’s Day joke when I talk about having seen The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. The long time passion project of Terry Gilliam has seemed so cursed and impossible to get off the ground, it even inspired a well received documentary in Lost in La Mancha. Having started work on this outing back in the late 1980’s, it’s been a full lifetime bringing The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to life. This week, it’s finally going to be available for public consumption, in part through Fathom Events. Those of you who have long been curious about it can rest easy…it’s good! The film is an adventure with a mix of comedy and drama elements thrown in, as only Gilliam can put forth. Toby (Adam Driver) is a deeply cynical but highly regarded director.
- 4/10/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
It was quite something sitting down to watch this film. Few films have had such a difficult, and well-documented journey to the big screen as this one. The playful opening credits allude to this arduous parturition, and it was with no small buzz of delight that Terry Gilliam finally brings The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to audiences.
This is not the film Gilliam set out to make at the end of the turn of the century. However the shadow of the beleaguered and painful production has worked its way into the fabric of this new narrative. What unfolds is a mesmerising absurdist fantasy, as much a satire of the modern filmmaking process as it is a quest for identity on the constantly shifting sands of sanity. It is visually stunning, emotionally powerful and handmade in the best possible way.
Ostensibly it is the story of a film director (Adam Driver...
This is not the film Gilliam set out to make at the end of the turn of the century. However the shadow of the beleaguered and painful production has worked its way into the fabric of this new narrative. What unfolds is a mesmerising absurdist fantasy, as much a satire of the modern filmmaking process as it is a quest for identity on the constantly shifting sands of sanity. It is visually stunning, emotionally powerful and handmade in the best possible way.
Ostensibly it is the story of a film director (Adam Driver...
- 4/10/2019
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Throughout his career as a director, Terry Gilliam has aimed to portray the outlandish and disorderly in imaginative, transportive ways. His greatest achievements are less about narrative coherence than an emotional attachment to a character’s eccentric journey through various stages of bewilderment. His long-burning passion project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote–finally seeing the light of day some 30 years later–clearly aims to be an epic descent into chaos, but the adventure often has trouble conveying a sense of entertaining spectacle to go along with the frivolous bafflement.
Starting things off right in the casting department, Adam Driver plays Toby Grisoni, a jaded director of glitzy ad spots who, ten years prior, made a black-and-white student film titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote nearby the Spanish village he and his crew are now occupying. While making a new commercial also featuring the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho Plaza,...
Starting things off right in the casting department, Adam Driver plays Toby Grisoni, a jaded director of glitzy ad spots who, ten years prior, made a black-and-white student film titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote nearby the Spanish village he and his crew are now occupying. While making a new commercial also featuring the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho Plaza,...
- 4/8/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
As police transport two fugitives across the Spanish countryside, they encounter a man dressed in armor (Jonathan Pryce) on a horse in a clip from Terry Gilliam’s decades-in-the-making upcoming film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
“Carnival is over, old man,” one of the cops shouts. When the knight leans over, his face brightens: “Sancho! I am Don Quixote de la Mancha, and I command you to release my squire, Sancho Panza.” The cops make fun of him, as the man Quixote calls Sancho (Adam Driver) ducks in the backseat.
“Carnival is over, old man,” one of the cops shouts. When the knight leans over, his face brightens: “Sancho! I am Don Quixote de la Mancha, and I command you to release my squire, Sancho Panza.” The cops make fun of him, as the man Quixote calls Sancho (Adam Driver) ducks in the backseat.
- 4/2/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
"The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" is the adventure comedy feature directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko and Joana Ribeiro, opening April 10, 2019:
"...'Toby Grisoni' (Driver), an advertising director, is struggling with the production of a commercial featuring 'Don Quixote' and 'Sancho Panza' in rural Spain.
"Then while in a restaurant after an unsuccessful day of shooting, Toby's superior, the 'Boss' (Skarsgård), recommends he find inspiration and brings over a 'Gypsy' (Óscar Jaenada) who sells him an old DVD of 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote', an amateur black-and-white film that Toby coincidentally wrote and directed ten years before as a student.
"Nostalgic, Toby watches the film, so enthralled that he barely notices the seductions of the Boss's wife 'Jacqui' (Kurylenko) in her hotel room. When the Boss returns, Toby frantically escapes, taking the DVD..."
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"...'Toby Grisoni' (Driver), an advertising director, is struggling with the production of a commercial featuring 'Don Quixote' and 'Sancho Panza' in rural Spain.
"Then while in a restaurant after an unsuccessful day of shooting, Toby's superior, the 'Boss' (Skarsgård), recommends he find inspiration and brings over a 'Gypsy' (Óscar Jaenada) who sells him an old DVD of 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote', an amateur black-and-white film that Toby coincidentally wrote and directed ten years before as a student.
"Nostalgic, Toby watches the film, so enthralled that he barely notices the seductions of the Boss's wife 'Jacqui' (Kurylenko) in her hotel room. When the Boss returns, Toby frantically escapes, taking the DVD..."
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- 3/8/2019
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
It’s been a long time coming, plagued by issues left, right and centre but a new trailer for Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ is doing the rounds.
After taking years to finally get his vision out of development to produce a finished product, Gilliam and co have further experienced legal issues in actually being able to get the picture released, Gilliam himself hinting that they were expected to pay 3.500,000 euros to get it released.
Its expected U.S. release date is April 10th
Directed by Gilliam the film stars Jonathan Pryce, Adam Driver, Olga Kurylenko, Joana Ribeiro, and Stellan Skarsgard.
Also in trailers – New trailer for live action Pokemon adventure ‘Detective Pikachu’ released
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Synopsis
Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He...
After taking years to finally get his vision out of development to produce a finished product, Gilliam and co have further experienced legal issues in actually being able to get the picture released, Gilliam himself hinting that they were expected to pay 3.500,000 euros to get it released.
Its expected U.S. release date is April 10th
Directed by Gilliam the film stars Jonathan Pryce, Adam Driver, Olga Kurylenko, Joana Ribeiro, and Stellan Skarsgard.
Also in trailers – New trailer for live action Pokemon adventure ‘Detective Pikachu’ released
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Synopsis
Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He...
- 2/27/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A cynical ad man and an old Spanish shoemaker take up Don Quixote’s age-old quest to restore the age of chivalry in the new trailer for Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
The clip teases Gilliam’s outrageously meta take on one of the most meta books of all time: Adam Driver stars as Toby, an advertising director working on a Don Quixote-based project who gets sucked into the delusions of a cobbler – played by Jonathan Pryce – who’s convinced he’s the real Don Quixote.
The clip teases Gilliam’s outrageously meta take on one of the most meta books of all time: Adam Driver stars as Toby, an advertising director working on a Don Quixote-based project who gets sucked into the delusions of a cobbler – played by Jonathan Pryce – who’s convinced he’s the real Don Quixote.
- 2/26/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
"Sancho!" Screen Media + Fathom have revealed the brand new official Us trailer for Terry Gilliam's long-awaited The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the film he's been trying to make for decades with doomed productions and other setbacks delaying it over and over. Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote finally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last summer, where it was also threatened by a lawsuit that almost stopped it from showing in France at all. But it played, and it's now getting a release in the Us as well. The film is about an advertising executive who jumps back & forth in time between 21st century London and 17th century La Mancha, where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza. Starring Jonathan Pryce as Don Quixote, and Adam Driver as Toby, with a cast including Olga Kurylenko, Stellan Skarsgård, Rossy de Palma, Óscar Jaenada, Jordi Mollà, Jason Watkins, and Sergi López.
- 2/26/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
We’ve got a new trailer to share with you for Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited fantasy adventure film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. This is a passion project of his that he’s been working on trying to get made for the past 25 years. Well, after going to hell and back to get it made, he finally did it and it’s set to hit theaters on April 10th, 2019!
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote stars Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) in the role of Toby and Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean) in the role of Don Quixote. I’ve always enjoyed Gilliam’s style, and as you’ll see in the trailer, you can tell that he had a lot of fun making it.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote,...
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote stars Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) in the role of Toby and Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean) in the role of Don Quixote. I’ve always enjoyed Gilliam’s style, and as you’ll see in the trailer, you can tell that he had a lot of fun making it.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote,...
- 2/26/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Screen Media finally released a trailer Monday for Terry Gilliam’s long-delayed film, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” a passion project that has taken the director nearly two decades to get to the screen.
The film stars Jonathan Pryce as the title character alongside Adam Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko and Jordi Mollà. Driver plays a frustrated filmmaker and disillusioned advertising executive who becomes pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler (Pryce) who believes he is Don Quixote mistakes Toby for his trusted squire Sancho Panza. Pulled further into the cobbler’s world, Toby gradually becomes unable to tell his dreams from reality.
In 2018, Gilliam lost a legal dispute when a French court ruled that he would have to pay one of the film’s former producer, Paulo Branco, €10,000 for breach of contract. Branco also sought an injunction to prevent “Don Quixote” from being released...
The film stars Jonathan Pryce as the title character alongside Adam Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko and Jordi Mollà. Driver plays a frustrated filmmaker and disillusioned advertising executive who becomes pulled into a world of time-jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler (Pryce) who believes he is Don Quixote mistakes Toby for his trusted squire Sancho Panza. Pulled further into the cobbler’s world, Toby gradually becomes unable to tell his dreams from reality.
In 2018, Gilliam lost a legal dispute when a French court ruled that he would have to pay one of the film’s former producer, Paulo Branco, €10,000 for breach of contract. Branco also sought an injunction to prevent “Don Quixote” from being released...
- 2/25/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Richard E. Grant has seen a few things in his 61 years. He was raised in the then-British colony of Swaziland. He went to school with Mandela’s daughters. He lay silent in the back seat of a car on an African dirt road as his mother screwed a man who was not his father, and then endured said father taking a shot at him in an alcoholic rage.
Later, he moved to London and became an actor making his permanent mark as Withnail, an alcoholic wastrel and the title character in Withnail & I,...
Later, he moved to London and became an actor making his permanent mark as Withnail, an alcoholic wastrel and the title character in Withnail & I,...
- 2/6/2019
- by Stephen Rodrick
- Rollingstone.com
What should be a comedy of errors about a hapless filmmaker’s efforts to complete a low, low budget horror film becomes instead a poignant tale about dodging life’s slings and arrows in order to follow your dreams. The film’s main dreamer is the Quixote-like Mark Borchardt, a lanky Milwaukeean determined to produce his movie come hell or high water. He even has his own Sancho Panza in Mike Schank, the rotund friend enlisted to write the film’s score. Director Chris Smith films his two heroes tilting at every windmill that comes their way and revels in their eventual success, unexpected as it is. Smith’s film was successful as well, winning the Grand Prize at Sundance in 1999.
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- 10/3/2018
- by TFH Team
- Trailers from Hell
Terry Gilliam's long-time passion project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, really must be a cursed film! The director has been trying to get this film made for decades! Things looked bright for him and the project when he actually completed production on it with Adam Driver and it ended up premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.
Well, things just took another crazy turn as Gilliam just lost the rights to his film! Screen Rant reports that the Paris Court of Appeal just ruled in favor of the film’s former producer, Paulo Brancho, who sued for rights to the project on the grounds that Gilliam made the film illegally. Wow! I didn't see that coming!
According to Branco and his production company Alfama, Gilliam and his team didn't hold the rights to make the film. Screen Daily quotes Branco as saying:
"The film belongs in its entirety to...
Well, things just took another crazy turn as Gilliam just lost the rights to his film! Screen Rant reports that the Paris Court of Appeal just ruled in favor of the film’s former producer, Paulo Brancho, who sued for rights to the project on the grounds that Gilliam made the film illegally. Wow! I didn't see that coming!
According to Branco and his production company Alfama, Gilliam and his team didn't hold the rights to make the film. Screen Daily quotes Branco as saying:
"The film belongs in its entirety to...
- 6/18/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Terry Gilliam’s latest legal battle over his passion project “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” has come to an end, and he’s been ordered to pay his former producer for breach of contract, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
This weekend, a French court ruled that Gilliam will have to pay €10,000 to Paulo Branco, the former producer on the movie who sued the “Monty Python” co-creator for breach of contract. Branco also sought an injunction to prevent “Don Quixote” from being released and from premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, though he was denied that request. Gilliam will therefore be able to distribute the film.
Gilliam argued that the contract was voided when Branco and his company, Alfama Films, failed to provide funding for the film’s production, giving him the right to find other producers for the project.
Also Read: Terry Gilliam's Epically Troubled 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...
This weekend, a French court ruled that Gilliam will have to pay €10,000 to Paulo Branco, the former producer on the movie who sued the “Monty Python” co-creator for breach of contract. Branco also sought an injunction to prevent “Don Quixote” from being released and from premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, though he was denied that request. Gilliam will therefore be able to distribute the film.
Gilliam argued that the contract was voided when Branco and his company, Alfama Films, failed to provide funding for the film’s production, giving him the right to find other producers for the project.
Also Read: Terry Gilliam's Epically Troubled 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...
- 6/17/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
We have no idea when we will get to see Terry Gilliam's long-awaited The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, but today we have a new international Catalan poster to share with you for the film.
I also included some recent comments made by Gilliam expressing his hatred for superhero films, calling them bullshit. During a recent interview, the filmmaker said:
"I hate superheroes. It’s bullshitt. Come on, grow up! We’re not going to be teenagers for the rest of our lives.""It’s great to dream of great powers. Superheroes are all about power. That’s what I don’t like about superheroes. They’ve gotta beat the other powerful superheroes. Come on, a bit of peace, love, and understanding is what we need."
It's funny that he's saying this because this is coming from the guy who tried to direct Watchmen at one point in his career.
I also included some recent comments made by Gilliam expressing his hatred for superhero films, calling them bullshit. During a recent interview, the filmmaker said:
"I hate superheroes. It’s bullshitt. Come on, grow up! We’re not going to be teenagers for the rest of our lives.""It’s great to dream of great powers. Superheroes are all about power. That’s what I don’t like about superheroes. They’ve gotta beat the other powerful superheroes. Come on, a bit of peace, love, and understanding is what we need."
It's funny that he's saying this because this is coming from the guy who tried to direct Watchmen at one point in his career.
- 6/13/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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
At this point, the very existence of “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” is a triumph, and Terry Gilliam knows it. “After 25 years of waiting,” announces an opening credit for the director’s completed version of his Spain-set odyssey, which faced a pileup of production woes over the decades. “Finally … a Terry Gilliam film.” He could have rolled the rest of the credits right there and moved on.
As chronicled in the 2002 documentary “Lost in La Mancha,” Gilliam’s initial 2000 attempt to bring the project to fruition fell apart in several ways, from location shooting issues to injured star Jean Rouchefort dropping out, transforming the project into a catastrophe of mythic proportions. As it turns out, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” sits alongside much of Gilliam’s late period work as a messy but singular achievement that strains to make its disparate parts fit together, but there’s a...
As chronicled in the 2002 documentary “Lost in La Mancha,” Gilliam’s initial 2000 attempt to bring the project to fruition fell apart in several ways, from location shooting issues to injured star Jean Rouchefort dropping out, transforming the project into a catastrophe of mythic proportions. As it turns out, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” sits alongside much of Gilliam’s late period work as a messy but singular achievement that strains to make its disparate parts fit together, but there’s a...
- 5/18/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It would be all too lazy to compare Terry Gilliam and his attempts to make a movie about Don Quixote to its main character – an old man foolishly picking fights with windmills. A better comparison might be Sisyphus, the mythological Greek king whose deceitfulness was punished by forcing him to roll a boulder uphill repeatedly, arduously and monotonously. It's an analogy Gilliam has made himself over the decades since he first got the idea to make the movie.
Now, 29 years after he secured financing for the picture for the first time,...
Now, 29 years after he secured financing for the picture for the first time,...
- 5/18/2018
- Rollingstone.com
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
Cannes Confirms ‘Don Quixote’ for Closing Night, Praises Court Win: ‘Cinema Has Regained Its Rights’
Organizers for the 2018 Cannes Film Festival have confirmed that Terry Gilliam’s film, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” will screen during the festival’s closing night on May 19 — and praised the Paris court decision allowing it to happen.
“Since Tuesday, cinema has regained its rights,” organizers said in a statement. “The Festival is a unique forum for freedom of expression. It will remain so.”
Hours after Amazon Studios dropped “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” a French court decided on Wednesday to dismiss a producer’s bid to stop the film from screening at Cannes.
“The Festival de Cannes, which throughout the case has repeatedly expressed its loyalty and support for the creators, is pleased to see that justice will allow the presentation of this work, whose director surely deserves to see it finally presented to the public,” the statement said.
Also Read: Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' Loses Amazon as Us Distributor, Wins Court Fight to Screen as Cannes Closer
Gilliam has been trying to make the film for decades with several failed attempts. Producer Paulo Branco, who was attached to “Don Quixote” but left after preproduction disputes, sought to block the Cannes closing-night screening. His lawyer issued a statement claiming that Gilliam needs Branco’s permission to screen the film.
“We are very pleased that this unique — and in some ways agonizing — work in the career of the great director Terry Gilliam will be unveiled for the first time to journalists, festival-goers and professionals from around the world, gathered together in the Grand Ampitheatre Lumiere,” added the statement.
The Festival has stood by the film in the past, saying, “The trouble were caused on this last occasion by the actions of a producer who has shown his true colours once and for all during this episode and who has threatened us, via his lawyer, with a ‘humiliating defeat.'”
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 2: 'Rafiki' Makes History, 'Don Quixote' Scores Legal Victory
Amazon Studios on Wednesday pulled out of its deal to distribute Gilliam’s film in North America because of producers’ failure to deliver it, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. The distributor had been an eyeing a fall release.
The film stars Driver as a 21st-century marketing executive named Toby who toggles between modern times and 17th-century Spain, where Don Quixote (Pryce) mistakes him for his trusted squire, Sancho Panza.
Like Quixote, Toby becomes consumed by the illusory world and unable to distinguish his dreams from reality. The tale culminates in a phantasmagorical finale where Toby takes on the mantle of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Read original story Cannes Confirms ‘Don Quixote’ for Closing Night, Praises Court Win: ‘Cinema Has Regained Its Rights’ At TheWrap...
“Since Tuesday, cinema has regained its rights,” organizers said in a statement. “The Festival is a unique forum for freedom of expression. It will remain so.”
Hours after Amazon Studios dropped “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” a French court decided on Wednesday to dismiss a producer’s bid to stop the film from screening at Cannes.
“The Festival de Cannes, which throughout the case has repeatedly expressed its loyalty and support for the creators, is pleased to see that justice will allow the presentation of this work, whose director surely deserves to see it finally presented to the public,” the statement said.
Also Read: Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' Loses Amazon as Us Distributor, Wins Court Fight to Screen as Cannes Closer
Gilliam has been trying to make the film for decades with several failed attempts. Producer Paulo Branco, who was attached to “Don Quixote” but left after preproduction disputes, sought to block the Cannes closing-night screening. His lawyer issued a statement claiming that Gilliam needs Branco’s permission to screen the film.
“We are very pleased that this unique — and in some ways agonizing — work in the career of the great director Terry Gilliam will be unveiled for the first time to journalists, festival-goers and professionals from around the world, gathered together in the Grand Ampitheatre Lumiere,” added the statement.
The Festival has stood by the film in the past, saying, “The trouble were caused on this last occasion by the actions of a producer who has shown his true colours once and for all during this episode and who has threatened us, via his lawyer, with a ‘humiliating defeat.'”
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 2: 'Rafiki' Makes History, 'Don Quixote' Scores Legal Victory
Amazon Studios on Wednesday pulled out of its deal to distribute Gilliam’s film in North America because of producers’ failure to deliver it, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. The distributor had been an eyeing a fall release.
The film stars Driver as a 21st-century marketing executive named Toby who toggles between modern times and 17th-century Spain, where Don Quixote (Pryce) mistakes him for his trusted squire, Sancho Panza.
Like Quixote, Toby becomes consumed by the illusory world and unable to distinguish his dreams from reality. The tale culminates in a phantasmagorical finale where Toby takes on the mantle of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Read original story Cannes Confirms ‘Don Quixote’ for Closing Night, Praises Court Win: ‘Cinema Has Regained Its Rights’ At TheWrap...
- 5/10/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Day 2 of the Cannes Film Festival was filled with screenings, most noteworthy being the showing of the Kenyan film “Rafiki,” but Terry Gilliam was the talk of the town when his film scored a huge legal victory on Wednesday.
A Paris court ruled that his long-in-the-works film “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” could screen on the festival’s closing night despite a suit by a producer seeking to stop it. At the same time, however, the film lost its North American distributor, Amazon Studios, and Gilliam himself suffered a minor stroke over the weekend.
“Rafiki” made history on Wednesday when it became the first Kenyan film to screen at the festival. And Russia’s “Leto” also screened, but filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov introduced it in absentia given that he is still under house arrest in his home country.
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 1: 'Everybody Knows' Premieres, Cate Blanchett Shines on the Croisette
Thursday sees competition films “Sorry Angel” and “Cold War” screening.
See below for Wednesday’s roundup:
“The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” Wins
Terry Gilliam was victorious on Wednesday, when a French judge decided to throw out a producer’s bid to stop the film from screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film, which Gilliam has tried to make for decades with several failed attempts, can now screen during the festival’s closing night.
Producer Paulo Branco, who was attached to “Don Quixote” but left after preproduction disputes, sought to block the Cannes closing-night screening. His lawyer issued a statement claiming that Gilliam needs Branco’s permission to screen the film.
But a court in Paris ruled Wednesday that the Cannes screening could proceed on May 19 as planned, so long as it’s preceded by a statement affirming Branco’s claims to the film rights. Branco will also be reimbursed for legal expenses.
Also Read: Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' Loses Amazon as Us Distributor, Wins Court Fight to Screen as Cannes Closer
However, Amazon Studios on Wednesday pulled out of its deal to distribute Gilliam’s film in North America because of producers’ failure to deliver it, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. The distributor had been an eyeing a fall release.
The film stars Adam Driver as a 21st-century marketing executive named Toby who toggles between modern times and 17th-century Spain, where Don Quixote (Jonathan Pryce) mistakes him for his trusted squire, Sancho Panza.
Like Quixote, Toby becomes consumed by the illusory world and unable to distinguish his dreams from reality. The tale culminates in a phantasmagorical finale where Toby takes on the mantle of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Kenya’s “Rafiki” Debuts
The first-ever Kenyan film to be included in the festival, titled “Rafiki,” debuted at Cannes on Wednesday.
Many people were moved by its political storytelling. TheWrap’s Steve Pond wrote in his review, “Second-time director Wanuri Kahiu, one of a larger-than-usual contingent of female directors in the main selection, has crafted a modest, at times striking drama that is perhaps more notable for what it represents than what it is.”
The film was banned in its home country due to its Lgbt love story, with the Kenya Film Classification Board saying that homosexual scenes were illegal in Kenya.
Also Read: 'Rafiki' Film Review: African Gay Romance Is a First for Cannes
#Rafiki is – in terms of filmmaking – somewhat conventional. But in terms of representation politics & storytelling it‘s an important & well made glimpse into Kenya, it‘s people and society. And the 2 protagonists are strong leads. Takes a lot of Chuzpe to make this film. #cannes
— Beatrice Behn (@DansLeCinema) May 9, 2018
Rafiki falls apart narratively but great style, talented director and liked one of the leads quite a bit. Important gay film for Kenya. #Cannes2018
— Gregory Ellwood (@TheGregoryE) May 9, 2018
Rafiki: definitely a first film, but it’s got a vital political utility and these leads have chemistry out the wazoo. It’s not Cannes unless there’s a movie with blacklighting!
— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) May 9, 2018
“Black Panther” Lights Up the Beach at Night
“Black Panther” was screened at night at the Cinema de la Plage — and what a beautiful setting to see one of the most talked-about films of the year.
A Cannes crowd has gathered for a nighttime screening of Black Panther on the beach pic.twitter.com/BAX6Q575Yn
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) May 9, 2018
Yo @MarvelStudios made it to #Cannes2018 Outdoor beach screening of Black Panther. Overflow on public beach behind it. pic.twitter.com/64nX7yQ8Cl
— Gregory Ellwood (@TheGregoryE) May 9, 2018
Russia’s “Leto” Debuts
Kirill Serebrennikov’s film “Leto” screened at the festival while the director himself still remains under house arrest in Russia on charges of corruption.
The film received mixed early reviews. One viewer described the film as “cinematic brilliance,” while another called it “exceptional.”
TheWrap’s Steve Pond wrote in his review that “‘Leto’ is the wildest and most bracing film to screen in the main competition so far this year. Part fond remembrance of an early-’80s Leningrad rock scene and part glam-rock fever dream, ‘Leto’ asks an audience to surrender to excess and at times to silliness, and it richly rewards them for doing so.”
Leto aka Summer (Serebrennikov '18) is an exceptional, and exceptionally morose, movie about internal conflict amidst social upheaval. An urgent cry for the present moment. No way this isn't winning something… #Cannes2018 #Cannes
— The Habitus (@habituspod) May 10, 2018
Cinematic brilliance @Festival_Cannes #Leto #KirillSerebrennikov #coupdecoeur https://t.co/JvOcDsDXdO
— Julia Effertz (@JuliaEffertz) May 10, 2018
Kirill Serebrennikov's Leto is not a Jared Leto biopic, but it's closer than you might think: an opaque, exhausting, sometimes impressive, often misjudged dive into the Leningrad rock scene. Not my favourite of his. https://t.co/KOzce3PNE1
— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) May 10, 2018
Read original story Cannes Report, Day 2: ‘Rafiki’ Makes History, ‘Don Quixote’ Scores Legal Victory At TheWrap...
A Paris court ruled that his long-in-the-works film “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” could screen on the festival’s closing night despite a suit by a producer seeking to stop it. At the same time, however, the film lost its North American distributor, Amazon Studios, and Gilliam himself suffered a minor stroke over the weekend.
“Rafiki” made history on Wednesday when it became the first Kenyan film to screen at the festival. And Russia’s “Leto” also screened, but filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov introduced it in absentia given that he is still under house arrest in his home country.
Also Read: Cannes Report, Day 1: 'Everybody Knows' Premieres, Cate Blanchett Shines on the Croisette
Thursday sees competition films “Sorry Angel” and “Cold War” screening.
See below for Wednesday’s roundup:
“The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” Wins
Terry Gilliam was victorious on Wednesday, when a French judge decided to throw out a producer’s bid to stop the film from screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film, which Gilliam has tried to make for decades with several failed attempts, can now screen during the festival’s closing night.
Producer Paulo Branco, who was attached to “Don Quixote” but left after preproduction disputes, sought to block the Cannes closing-night screening. His lawyer issued a statement claiming that Gilliam needs Branco’s permission to screen the film.
But a court in Paris ruled Wednesday that the Cannes screening could proceed on May 19 as planned, so long as it’s preceded by a statement affirming Branco’s claims to the film rights. Branco will also be reimbursed for legal expenses.
Also Read: Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' Loses Amazon as Us Distributor, Wins Court Fight to Screen as Cannes Closer
However, Amazon Studios on Wednesday pulled out of its deal to distribute Gilliam’s film in North America because of producers’ failure to deliver it, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. The distributor had been an eyeing a fall release.
The film stars Adam Driver as a 21st-century marketing executive named Toby who toggles between modern times and 17th-century Spain, where Don Quixote (Jonathan Pryce) mistakes him for his trusted squire, Sancho Panza.
Like Quixote, Toby becomes consumed by the illusory world and unable to distinguish his dreams from reality. The tale culminates in a phantasmagorical finale where Toby takes on the mantle of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Kenya’s “Rafiki” Debuts
The first-ever Kenyan film to be included in the festival, titled “Rafiki,” debuted at Cannes on Wednesday.
Many people were moved by its political storytelling. TheWrap’s Steve Pond wrote in his review, “Second-time director Wanuri Kahiu, one of a larger-than-usual contingent of female directors in the main selection, has crafted a modest, at times striking drama that is perhaps more notable for what it represents than what it is.”
The film was banned in its home country due to its Lgbt love story, with the Kenya Film Classification Board saying that homosexual scenes were illegal in Kenya.
Also Read: 'Rafiki' Film Review: African Gay Romance Is a First for Cannes
#Rafiki is – in terms of filmmaking – somewhat conventional. But in terms of representation politics & storytelling it‘s an important & well made glimpse into Kenya, it‘s people and society. And the 2 protagonists are strong leads. Takes a lot of Chuzpe to make this film. #cannes
— Beatrice Behn (@DansLeCinema) May 9, 2018
Rafiki falls apart narratively but great style, talented director and liked one of the leads quite a bit. Important gay film for Kenya. #Cannes2018
— Gregory Ellwood (@TheGregoryE) May 9, 2018
Rafiki: definitely a first film, but it’s got a vital political utility and these leads have chemistry out the wazoo. It’s not Cannes unless there’s a movie with blacklighting!
— Charles Bramesco (@intothecrevasse) May 9, 2018
“Black Panther” Lights Up the Beach at Night
“Black Panther” was screened at night at the Cinema de la Plage — and what a beautiful setting to see one of the most talked-about films of the year.
A Cannes crowd has gathered for a nighttime screening of Black Panther on the beach pic.twitter.com/BAX6Q575Yn
— Kyle Buchanan (@kylebuchanan) May 9, 2018
Yo @MarvelStudios made it to #Cannes2018 Outdoor beach screening of Black Panther. Overflow on public beach behind it. pic.twitter.com/64nX7yQ8Cl
— Gregory Ellwood (@TheGregoryE) May 9, 2018
Russia’s “Leto” Debuts
Kirill Serebrennikov’s film “Leto” screened at the festival while the director himself still remains under house arrest in Russia on charges of corruption.
The film received mixed early reviews. One viewer described the film as “cinematic brilliance,” while another called it “exceptional.”
TheWrap’s Steve Pond wrote in his review that “‘Leto’ is the wildest and most bracing film to screen in the main competition so far this year. Part fond remembrance of an early-’80s Leningrad rock scene and part glam-rock fever dream, ‘Leto’ asks an audience to surrender to excess and at times to silliness, and it richly rewards them for doing so.”
Leto aka Summer (Serebrennikov '18) is an exceptional, and exceptionally morose, movie about internal conflict amidst social upheaval. An urgent cry for the present moment. No way this isn't winning something… #Cannes2018 #Cannes
— The Habitus (@habituspod) May 10, 2018
Cinematic brilliance @Festival_Cannes #Leto #KirillSerebrennikov #coupdecoeur https://t.co/JvOcDsDXdO
— Julia Effertz (@JuliaEffertz) May 10, 2018
Kirill Serebrennikov's Leto is not a Jared Leto biopic, but it's closer than you might think: an opaque, exhausting, sometimes impressive, often misjudged dive into the Leningrad rock scene. Not my favourite of his. https://t.co/KOzce3PNE1
— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) May 10, 2018
Read original story Cannes Report, Day 2: ‘Rafiki’ Makes History, ‘Don Quixote’ Scores Legal Victory At TheWrap...
- 5/10/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Hours after Amazon Studios dropped Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” a French court decided to dismiss a producer’s bid to stop the film from screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
The long-delayed film, starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce, is now free to screen during the festival’s closing night. Gilliam has been trying to make the film for decades with several failed attempts.
Recently, it’s been involved in legal disputes over its rights. Producer Paulo Branco, who was attached to “Don Quixote” but left after preproduction disputes, sought to block the Cannes closing-night screening. His lawyer issued a statement claiming that Gilliam needs Branco’s permission to screen the film.
But a court in Paris ruled Wednesday that the Cannes screening could proceed on May 19 as planned, Variety reported, so long as it’s preceded by a statement affirming Branco’s claims to the film rights. Branco will also be reimbursed for legal expenses.
Also Read: Cannes Stands by Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' Despite Producer's Lawsuit to Block Screening
Cannes organizers have stood by the film, saying in a statement, “The trouble were caused on this last occasion by the actions of a producer who has shown his true colours once and for all during this episode and who has threatened us, via his lawyer, with a ‘humiliating defeat.'”
Amazon Studios on Wednesday pulled out of its deal to distribute Gilliam’s film in North America because of producers’ failure to deliver it, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. The distributor had been an eyeing a fall release.
Also Read: Cannes Adds Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote,' Lars von Trier's 'The House That Jack Built'
The film stars Driver as a 21st-century marketing executive named Toby who toggles between modern times and 17th-century Spain, where Don Quixote (Pryce) mistakes him for his trusted squire, Sancho Panza.
Like Quixote, Toby becomes consumed by the illusory world and unable to distinguish his dreams from reality. The tale culminates in a phantasmagorical finale where Toby takes on the mantle of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Read original story Terry Gilliam’s ‘Don Quixote’ Loses Amazon as Us Distributor, Wins Court Fight to Screen as Cannes Closer At TheWrap...
The long-delayed film, starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce, is now free to screen during the festival’s closing night. Gilliam has been trying to make the film for decades with several failed attempts.
Recently, it’s been involved in legal disputes over its rights. Producer Paulo Branco, who was attached to “Don Quixote” but left after preproduction disputes, sought to block the Cannes closing-night screening. His lawyer issued a statement claiming that Gilliam needs Branco’s permission to screen the film.
But a court in Paris ruled Wednesday that the Cannes screening could proceed on May 19 as planned, Variety reported, so long as it’s preceded by a statement affirming Branco’s claims to the film rights. Branco will also be reimbursed for legal expenses.
Also Read: Cannes Stands by Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote' Despite Producer's Lawsuit to Block Screening
Cannes organizers have stood by the film, saying in a statement, “The trouble were caused on this last occasion by the actions of a producer who has shown his true colours once and for all during this episode and who has threatened us, via his lawyer, with a ‘humiliating defeat.'”
Amazon Studios on Wednesday pulled out of its deal to distribute Gilliam’s film in North America because of producers’ failure to deliver it, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. The distributor had been an eyeing a fall release.
Also Read: Cannes Adds Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote,' Lars von Trier's 'The House That Jack Built'
The film stars Driver as a 21st-century marketing executive named Toby who toggles between modern times and 17th-century Spain, where Don Quixote (Pryce) mistakes him for his trusted squire, Sancho Panza.
Like Quixote, Toby becomes consumed by the illusory world and unable to distinguish his dreams from reality. The tale culminates in a phantasmagorical finale where Toby takes on the mantle of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Read original story Terry Gilliam’s ‘Don Quixote’ Loses Amazon as Us Distributor, Wins Court Fight to Screen as Cannes Closer At TheWrap...
- 5/9/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
The Paris Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that director Terry Gilliam’s decades-delayed “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” may close the Cannes Film Festival on May 19 as scheduled, Variety reports. Former producer on the project Paulo Branco requested an injunction to stave off the screening and the same-day French theatrical release, asserting he obtained the rights to the film in August 2016. The decision came days after he suffered a reported minor stroke.
“Quixote” was a late addition to the Cannes 2018 program. Pierre Lescure and Thierry Frémaux, the respective festival president and director, have said they took “careful consideration” with this expansion of their slate, since Branco and his Alfama Films had seen legal victories versus Gilliam in England and France. Gilliam appeal to the French ruling last month, prior to the Cannes announcement.
Producer and director parted ways before “Quixote” finally began shooting in March 2017. New funding came via Amazon Studios,...
“Quixote” was a late addition to the Cannes 2018 program. Pierre Lescure and Thierry Frémaux, the respective festival president and director, have said they took “careful consideration” with this expansion of their slate, since Branco and his Alfama Films had seen legal victories versus Gilliam in England and France. Gilliam appeal to the French ruling last month, prior to the Cannes announcement.
Producer and director parted ways before “Quixote” finally began shooting in March 2017. New funding came via Amazon Studios,...
- 5/9/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Terry Gilliam has been trying to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote for so many years the film has become cinema legend before it's even premiered. These kinds of passion projects come with a lot of baggage so I hope Gilliam is able to put what he always wanted on screen.
The second trailer for his film has premiered and it looks like everything a Gilliam fan might expect. It's lavish and carnivalesque and delirious and wonderful.
Synopsis:
An advertising executive jumps back and forth in time between 21st century London and 17th century La Mancha, where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza.
The story of Gilliam's notorious failed attempt to make the film with Johnny Depp was documented in the film...
The second trailer for his film has premiered and it looks like everything a Gilliam fan might expect. It's lavish and carnivalesque and delirious and wonderful.
Synopsis:
An advertising executive jumps back and forth in time between 21st century London and 17th century La Mancha, where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza.
The story of Gilliam's notorious failed attempt to make the film with Johnny Depp was documented in the film...
- 4/30/2018
- QuietEarth.us
We've got a brand new trailer for you to watch for director Terry Gilliam's long-awaited film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. It's been a long road for the filmmaker to get the movie made, but he did it! He actually completed his passion project and it looks like a fantastic film! The new trailer offers us a good amount of new footage and additional insight into the story. It looks like it's going to be a fun film filled with all of the wonderful things that I enjoy about the films Gilliam makes.
The movie stars Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) in the role of Toby and Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean) in the role of Don Quixote, and this is the synopsis:
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote, and who mistakes Toby,...
The movie stars Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) in the role of Toby and Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean) in the role of Don Quixote, and this is the synopsis:
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote, and who mistakes Toby,...
- 4/30/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” is confirmed to world premiere at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, nearly two decades after after the director first started developing the passion project. The fantasy movie, starring Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver, will close the festival on May 19 after the awards ceremony. “Don Quixote” is being released theatrically in France the same day.
“Don Quixote” stars Pryce as a delusional older man who is convinced he is the real Don Quixote. After he confuses an advertising executive named Toby (Driver) for his squire, Sancho Panza, the two men set out on a journey that seduces Toby into Don Quixote’s illusionary world.
Gilliam first started work on “Don Quixote” back in 1998. The film was considered a question mark for Cannes as it was still facing a potential legal battle earlier this month. Producer Paulo Branco, who was attached to the film...
“Don Quixote” stars Pryce as a delusional older man who is convinced he is the real Don Quixote. After he confuses an advertising executive named Toby (Driver) for his squire, Sancho Panza, the two men set out on a journey that seduces Toby into Don Quixote’s illusionary world.
Gilliam first started work on “Don Quixote” back in 1998. The film was considered a question mark for Cannes as it was still facing a potential legal battle earlier this month. Producer Paulo Branco, who was attached to the film...
- 4/19/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
A film twenty years in the making finally has a trailer! Terry Gilliam‘s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has had a slew of misfortune since in production. Scheduling and budget issues, Nato aircraft target practice taking place in the area, flash floods and one of the original lead actors, Jean Rochefort, was injured and suffered a herniated disc halting the filming altogether. An award-winning documentary Lost in La Moncha was made about the problem ridden production.
The original attempt had Johnny Depp as the lead role of Toby but this time around Star Wars actor Adam Driver serves as lead co-starring with Jonathan Pryce. Check out the official trailer below.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote, and who mistakes Toby, an advertising executive, for his trusty squire, Sancho Panza. The pair embark on a bizarre journey,...
The original attempt had Johnny Depp as the lead role of Toby but this time around Star Wars actor Adam Driver serves as lead co-starring with Jonathan Pryce. Check out the official trailer below.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote, and who mistakes Toby, an advertising executive, for his trusty squire, Sancho Panza. The pair embark on a bizarre journey,...
- 4/6/2018
- by Chris Salce
- Age of the Nerd
"Blasphemy!" It's finally, finally, finally, finally here!! Can you believe it?! The very first international trailer for Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has arrived out of nowhere, just a week before the Cannes Film Festival line-up announcement. Word is the film will play the festival, but until it's official, this is our first look. Terry Gilliam has been trying to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote for decades, (in)famously starting production and then shutting down once before in 2000 with Johnny Depp. Now he's finally finished it and it's ready for release this year. Rejoice! The film is about an advertising executive who jumps back & forth in time between 21st century London and 17th century La Mancha, where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza. Starring Jonathan Pryce as Don Quixote, and Adam Driver as Toby, with a cast including Olga Kurylenko, Stellan Skarsgård, Rossy de Palma,...
- 4/5/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Terry Gilliam has been trying to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote for so many years the film has become cinema legend before it's even premiered. These kinds of passion projects come with a lot of baggage so I hope Gilliam is able to put what he always wanted on screen.
The first trailer for his film has premiered and it looks like everything a Gilliam fan might expect. It's lavish and carnivalesque and delirious and wonderful.
Synopsis:
An advertising executive jumps back and forth in time between 21st century London and 17th century La Mancha, where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza.
The story of Gilliam's notorious failed attempt to make the film with Johnny Depp was documented in the film...
The first trailer for his film has premiered and it looks like everything a Gilliam fan might expect. It's lavish and carnivalesque and delirious and wonderful.
Synopsis:
An advertising executive jumps back and forth in time between 21st century London and 17th century La Mancha, where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza.
The story of Gilliam's notorious failed attempt to make the film with Johnny Depp was documented in the film...
- 4/5/2018
- QuietEarth.us
After nearly two decades of financial troubles, casting issues and myriad other delays for Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the film's first trailer has arrived.
Gilliam's infamously "cursed" take on Miguel de Cervantes' epic novel, Don Quixote, stars Adam Driver as a marketing executive, Toby, who meets a man (Jonathan Pryce) who believes he is La Mancha's defender of chivalry, Don Quixote. This Quixote mistakes Toby for his squire, Sancho Panza, and together, the pair embark on a surreal journey that jumps between the 21st and 17th centuries.
Gilliam's infamously "cursed" take on Miguel de Cervantes' epic novel, Don Quixote, stars Adam Driver as a marketing executive, Toby, who meets a man (Jonathan Pryce) who believes he is La Mancha's defender of chivalry, Don Quixote. This Quixote mistakes Toby for his squire, Sancho Panza, and together, the pair embark on a surreal journey that jumps between the 21st and 17th centuries.
- 4/5/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Terry Gilliam's long-awaited The Man Who Killed Don Quixote actually exists! The first international trailer has been released to prove it and it looks wonderful. After all of these years, and all the problems this production has faced, Gilliam has finally made his passion project. The film stars Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) in the role of Toby and Jonathan Pryce (Pirates of the Caribbean) in the role of Don Quixote. As a fan of Gillam's film work, I couldn't be more excited about this!
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote, and who mistakes Toby, an advertising executive, for his trusty squire, Sancho Panza. The pair embark on a bizarre journey, jumping back and forth in time between the 21st and magical 17th century. Gradually, like the infamous knight himself, Toby becomes...
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote, and who mistakes Toby, an advertising executive, for his trusty squire, Sancho Panza. The pair embark on a bizarre journey, jumping back and forth in time between the 21st and magical 17th century. Gradually, like the infamous knight himself, Toby becomes...
- 4/5/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
This morning brings about honest to goodness footage of Terry Gilliam's long cursed, passion project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...but we still may never see the rest of it. Come inside to take a gander and learn more about the film's latest problems.
It's been a running joke that Gilliam's Don Quixote movie has been cursed, and really, it's hard to argue with it. For the last 20 years, the director has been trying to make this movie a reality, always to be stopped by something drastic. Between natural disasters, injuries on the set, and multiple false starts on shooting, saying the film has had a troubled shoot is putting it mildly.
As such, many were shocked when it finally began filming last year, and today brings our first look at actual footage from the movie in the form of it's first trailer...Sadly, it's not that great:...
It's been a running joke that Gilliam's Don Quixote movie has been cursed, and really, it's hard to argue with it. For the last 20 years, the director has been trying to make this movie a reality, always to be stopped by something drastic. Between natural disasters, injuries on the set, and multiple false starts on shooting, saying the film has had a troubled shoot is putting it mildly.
As such, many were shocked when it finally began filming last year, and today brings our first look at actual footage from the movie in the form of it's first trailer...Sadly, it's not that great:...
- 4/5/2018
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
Just when you were losing hope that Terry Gilliam’s 20-year passion project “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” would never see the light of day, the first international trailer has debuted to prove once and for all the movie exists and is ready for a theatrical debut. Gilliam started work on “Don Quixote” in 1998 and it arrives two decades later with Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver in the lead roles.
Pryce plays a delusional older man who is convinced he is the real Don Quixote. After he confuses an advertising executive named Toby (Driver) for his squire, Sancho Panza, the two men set out on an unusual journey that slowly seduces Toby into Don Quixote’s illusionary world. The trailer makes it clear this is one of Gilliam’s most wild and fantastical visions yet as he blends the 21st and 17th centuries. Olga Kurylenko and Stellan Skarsgård co-star.
Pryce plays a delusional older man who is convinced he is the real Don Quixote. After he confuses an advertising executive named Toby (Driver) for his squire, Sancho Panza, the two men set out on an unusual journey that slowly seduces Toby into Don Quixote’s illusionary world. The trailer makes it clear this is one of Gilliam’s most wild and fantastical visions yet as he blends the 21st and 17th centuries. Olga Kurylenko and Stellan Skarsgård co-star.
- 4/5/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
We’ll believe it’s officially real when we’re sitting in the theater taking it in, but the best proof yet that Terry Gilliam has actually finished his oft-cursed project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has arrived. Indeed, we have the first trailer for the film which concerns Toby Grisoni (Adam Driver), a 21st-century man brought back to the time and place of Miguel de Cervantes’ text and the presence of Don Quixote (Jonathan Pryce), who mistakes him for Sancho Panza.
Despite some current legal trouble the film is involved with–a former producer on the project with whom Gilliam cut ties with and moved on, only to have him come back and say the film can’t premiere without his blessing–it seems as though the director and company are going to go ahead of a release soon. Rumored for a Cannes premiere, we’ll find out...
Despite some current legal trouble the film is involved with–a former producer on the project with whom Gilliam cut ties with and moved on, only to have him come back and say the film can’t premiere without his blessing–it seems as though the director and company are going to go ahead of a release soon. Rumored for a Cannes premiere, we’ll find out...
- 4/5/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Actress Debbie Lee Carrington, a little person who appeared in the original Total Recall as part of the Martian rebels and in Star Wars as an ewok, among other TV and film appearances, has died. She was 58 and died in her sleep from undetermined causes, according to her sister, Cathy Ellis.
Carrington was born on December 14, 1959 in San Jose, California. Standing just 3 feet, 10 inches tall upon maturity, Carrington was a cheerleader in high school and played Sancho Panza in a production of Man of La Mancha her junior year, igniting her passion for acting.
While attending the University of California-Davis, she saw an ad in the Little People of America magazine about the search for extras for Chevy Chase’s Under the Rainbow, a film which was loosely based on the little people who auditioned for roles as Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.
Carrington scored a role, and...
Carrington was born on December 14, 1959 in San Jose, California. Standing just 3 feet, 10 inches tall upon maturity, Carrington was a cheerleader in high school and played Sancho Panza in a production of Man of La Mancha her junior year, igniting her passion for acting.
While attending the University of California-Davis, she saw an ad in the Little People of America magazine about the search for extras for Chevy Chase’s Under the Rainbow, a film which was loosely based on the little people who auditioned for roles as Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.
Carrington scored a role, and...
- 3/30/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
This is our first official photo from director Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. After all that Gilliam has gone through in trying to make this film over the years, it's crazy that it actually got made. This first photo features Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) as Toby and Jonathan Pryce (Pirate of the Caribbean) in the role of Don Quixote.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote, and who mistakes Toby, an advertising executive, for his trusty squire, Sancho Panza. The pair embark on a bizarre journey, jumping back and forth in time between the 21st and magical 17th century. Gradually, like the infamous knight himself, Toby becomes consumed by the illusory world and unable to determine his dreams from reality. The tale culminates in a phantasmagorical and emotional finale...
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tells the story of a deluded old man who is convinced he is Don Quixote, and who mistakes Toby, an advertising executive, for his trusty squire, Sancho Panza. The pair embark on a bizarre journey, jumping back and forth in time between the 21st and magical 17th century. Gradually, like the infamous knight himself, Toby becomes consumed by the illusory world and unable to determine his dreams from reality. The tale culminates in a phantasmagorical and emotional finale...
- 2/21/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Brendon Connelly Feb 22, 2018
A new picture surfaces from Terry Gilliam's long, long mooted The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
While the smart money is on a Cannes premiere for Terry Gilliam's much-delayed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the truth is that nothing has yet been publicly announced and Gilliam and his team remain up to their elbows in post-production work. We also don't know who will be releasing the film in various territories, and for now, neither do its producers. They're in Berlin at the film market right now, shopping the rights around and looking for buyers. They won't have trouble - it's really a job of finding the best fit, best deals, best reach for the film. Out in Berlin is Andrea Corsini who has very handily tweeted this image from the film. It's the first actual promotional image to have been published.
around european film market...
A new picture surfaces from Terry Gilliam's long, long mooted The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
While the smart money is on a Cannes premiere for Terry Gilliam's much-delayed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the truth is that nothing has yet been publicly announced and Gilliam and his team remain up to their elbows in post-production work. We also don't know who will be releasing the film in various territories, and for now, neither do its producers. They're in Berlin at the film market right now, shopping the rights around and looking for buyers. They won't have trouble - it's really a job of finding the best fit, best deals, best reach for the film. Out in Berlin is Andrea Corsini who has very handily tweeted this image from the film. It's the first actual promotional image to have been published.
around european film market...
- 2/21/2018
- Den of Geek
Perhaps forever to be known as “The Best Don Quixote Who Never Was,” French actor Jean Rochefort has died at age 87, according to Afp.
Rochefort was hospitalized in August and died overnight on Sunday, Afp reported, according to Deadline.
One of the most loved, iconoclastic figures of French cinema in the last 70 years, Rochefort first began appearing in films in 1955.
Both a romantic leading man and character actor, Rochefort was a three time César honoree equally skilled in dramatic and comedic roles. He starred in a number of successful, critically praised French films which attracted international audiences including Ridicule and The Hairdresser’s Husband.
Rochefort was hospitalized in August and died overnight on Sunday, Afp reported, according to Deadline.
One of the most loved, iconoclastic figures of French cinema in the last 70 years, Rochefort first began appearing in films in 1955.
Both a romantic leading man and character actor, Rochefort was a three time César honoree equally skilled in dramatic and comedic roles. He starred in a number of successful, critically praised French films which attracted international audiences including Ridicule and The Hairdresser’s Husband.
- 10/9/2017
- by Peter Mikelbank
- PEOPLE.com
“Our gentleman was approximately fifty years old; his complexion was weathered, his flesh scrawny, his face gaunt, and he was a very early riser and a great lover of the hunt.” What the description lacks in flattery it redeems with comic affection. A few pages later, Cervantes’ Don Quixote (by way of Edith Grossman’s English translation) imagines describing himself, to a love interest, as “never sufficiently praised.” Can you picture Steve Coogan in the role? Gone bonkers from reading too many books, yearning for a campaign of romantic chivalry and publicly displayed valor, Quixote recruits his farmer neighbor Sancho Panza, “a good man…without much in the way of brains,” who, when promised an island, “left his wife and children and agreed to be his neighbor’s squire.” Here, how about Rob Brydon? Assuming you even know who he is.It was Brydon, in 2010’s The Trip, who wryly...
- 8/16/2017
- MUBI
Jacob Batalon didn’t set out to be an actor, but that’s about to change for him in a very big way. Starring in a big budget Marvel superhero film will do that for anyone, but for a rising newbie like Batalon – who nearly steals the show as Peter Parker’s best friend and charming sidekick Ned Leeds in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” – it’s still a major surprise. Initially interested in studying singing and the ukulele, the Hawaiian native enrolled at Honolulu’s Kapi‘olani Community College after high school to study music theory, but he soon dropped out without finishing his degree.
“I didn’t really enjoy school in general,” Batalon said in a recent interview. “I dropped out of college in Hawaii, just because I thought school was for losers. But school’s really important.”
The easy-going actor soon fell in with a scouting agency from Los Angeles,...
“I didn’t really enjoy school in general,” Batalon said in a recent interview. “I dropped out of college in Hawaii, just because I thought school was for losers. But school’s really important.”
The easy-going actor soon fell in with a scouting agency from Los Angeles,...
- 7/7/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Despite lead actors falling ill and sets washed away in flash floods, the director’s Cervantes film is finally in the can. But will a movie that has lingered in development hell be worth the wait?
‘Terry Gilliam has finished The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.” It’s a sentence that anyone familiar with this most prolonged of movie-making sagas would never have expected to read. Over its gestation period of two decades, the Monty Python man’s doomed attempt to bring Cervantes’s “unfilmable” novel to the screen has become one of the most famous examples of development hell. It has inspired numerous articles and even a documentary about its disastrous production, as well as hushed rumours that both the film and Gilliam were cursed.
Even when Don Quixote first went into pre-production, way back in 1998, it seemed destined for trouble. Gilliam had put together a wildly ambitious script...
‘Terry Gilliam has finished The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.” It’s a sentence that anyone familiar with this most prolonged of movie-making sagas would never have expected to read. Over its gestation period of two decades, the Monty Python man’s doomed attempt to bring Cervantes’s “unfilmable” novel to the screen has become one of the most famous examples of development hell. It has inspired numerous articles and even a documentary about its disastrous production, as well as hushed rumours that both the film and Gilliam were cursed.
Even when Don Quixote first went into pre-production, way back in 1998, it seemed destined for trouble. Gilliam had put together a wildly ambitious script...
- 6/6/2017
- by Gwilym Mumford
- The Guardian - Film News
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