The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#26 Post by Daneurism » Thu Apr 05, 2018 10:39 am

I think it looks good, but maybe i'm swept up in how cinematic it looks. Honestly thought this was going to look like it was made for a hundred bucks.

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#27 Post by Fiery Angel » Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:59 pm

It looks like a typical Gilliam mess--and I'll be there on day one.

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#28 Post by John Shade » Thu Apr 05, 2018 1:52 pm

Fiery Angel wrote:It looks like a typical Gilliam mess--and I'll be there on day one.
Assuming there is a day one, but I'm with you. I liked the Imaginarium and thought it would be really improved without all the digital effects; this seems to have a less of that and still the goofiness, so we'll see.

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#29 Post by Fiery Angel » Thu Apr 05, 2018 1:59 pm

John Shade wrote: Assuming there is a day one
good point

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#30 Post by Kirkinson » Thu Apr 05, 2018 2:28 pm

There are some really nice shots that have some of that old Gilliam magic, but it’s a very very badly edited trailer, so it’s difficult to draw any firm conclusions about the movie itself. The fact that the boob joke is the only thing the trailer really slows down for is not encouraging. I’m still hopeful, though.


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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#32 Post by Roger Ryan » Thu Apr 19, 2018 12:04 pm

Seems like the current ownership court case allowed a provision for the film to be shown at Cannes or Amazon decided to settle the matter out-of-court.

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#33 Post by Roger Ryan » Fri Apr 27, 2018 12:11 pm

Well, it appears that neither of my assumptions were correct about the film being allowed to play Cannes. This news has vexed Gilliam enough that he made a Facebook post about it.

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#34 Post by Luke M » Sat Apr 28, 2018 6:32 pm

Lost Highway wrote:I haven't liked a Terry Gilliam film since 12 Monkeys. Judging from the awful trailer, this doesn't look like a return to form, passion project or not.
Is it ok to say he’s not that good? Even 12 Monkeys is fairly mediocre.

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#35 Post by dda1996a » Sun Apr 29, 2018 4:29 pm

It's OK to say so but I also think it's OK to say you're very wrong. It might not reach Marker's heights but 12 Monkeys is a great movie. I'll say everything post Fear and Loathing ranges from mediocre to bad (haven't seen Tideland, partial to Imaginarium) but this looks like a return to former. I'll watch almost anything with Pryce and Driver

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#36 Post by dda1996a » Mon Apr 30, 2018 4:21 am

I personally love Brazil and I would consider all those films up to Fear and Loathing great (we can't forget his work with Monty Python!). I'll agree that he's like Ken Russell, even his lesser films are always at least interesting in some capacity. Boring they were not (maybe except from Grimm Brothers, his only movie I truly dislike).
But this looks interesting and as someone who's seen Lost in La Mancha I got a little jolt seeing those giants at the end.




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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#40 Post by knives » Tue May 08, 2018 10:16 pm

It's pretty shocking how down to the last minute this film just won't stop running into problems.

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#41 Post by Ribs » Wed May 09, 2018 10:56 am

The court ruled today that the film will be allowed to play at Cannes

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#42 Post by Roger Ryan » Wed May 09, 2018 11:53 am

Ribs wrote:The court ruled today that the film will be allowed to play at Cannes
...and Gilliam himself just posted this on Facebook: "After days of rest and prayers to the gods I am restored and well again. So is The Man Who Killed Don Quixote! We are legally victorious! We will go to the ball, dressed as the closing film at Festival de Cannes! May 19. Thanks for all your support."

Sounds like his illness wasn't too serious.


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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#44 Post by swo17 » Sat Jun 16, 2018 3:26 pm

That's amazing if it's true that Alfama never even paid anything for it

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#45 Post by DarkImbecile » Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:26 pm


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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#46 Post by Boosmahn » Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:25 am

I thought it was getting a theatrical release in March? (If you want to see this film early, get the German Blu-ray; it's region free!)

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#47 Post by Aunt Peg » Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:44 am

My advice is don't blind buy this mess unless you a desperate to see it. Wait for a cheaper option.

Its probably Gilliam's worst film and will only become a curiosity because of the colourful history that brought it to the screen.

I saw it last August and can barely remember a thing about it. I do vividly remember be relived when the whole enterprise had finally finished.

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#48 Post by Boosmahn » Sun Mar 03, 2019 2:07 pm

I thought it was okay. Pryce's performance was one of the best things about the film, but it was unfortunately marred down by a bloated runtime and choppy editing. I wasn't a huge fan of the ending, either. (Maybe my expectations were unrealistic, though, as I had just seen my first Gilliam film, Brazil, a week prior.)

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#49 Post by Fiery Angel » Tue Mar 12, 2019 5:54 pm

Also, Screen Media will release the film in theaters and on-demand April 19.

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Re: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam, 2018)

#50 Post by Reverend Drewcifer » Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:16 pm

This was a very mixed-up experience for me personally. Having seen it feels like the end of a very long journey, with countless news items, documentaries, rumors, casting, recasting, cancellations, and various/sundry setbacks marking the way. There was no way it could meet anyone's expectations, but it exists, and it's pretty okay.

I first heard of this as an undergrad film student reading Gilliam on Gilliam, followed its aborted production as I was making my student short films. It popped up again a few years after I graduated, with a new cast, long after I had tried and failed to keep the momentum going to make a film and went into commercial banking. The next few years were a blur of new Quixotes (Hurt, Duvall, and then finally Pryce) and new directions in my own life (marriage, debt, more debt, a teaching career, and now a career in aerospace), and I have pretty much made peace with the fact that I never had a movie in me. Very solipsistic.

Tracking this from beginning to end over 20 years, and digesting what I could sort out as the meaning of the film, I'm glad in a very odd way that it isn't the be-all-end-all greatest story ever told. It starts with a terrific premise that inspires a lot of hope, is extremely messy for a long time, and resolves with a decidedly ambivalent sigh. I was 19-20 at the outset, and I'm twice that age now, so an ambivalent sigh means more to me now than it ever could when I was younger. My favorite part of the experience was hearing the young people in the rows behind me in the theater after it was over. My wife said "you can always tell when there are film students in the audience. Even if you can't hear their words, their tone is always the same." Nothing profound, but it held some meaning for me, and that's more than I get out of a lot of films.

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