Tag: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
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This Cillian Murphy Film Has Been on the Shelf for Over a Decade
There are countless reasons why a film may struggle to come out by its intended release date, as the process of putting together an ambitious film production is never predictable. A film like Mad Max: Fury Road took over a decade of restarts, production shutdowns, studio delays, and release date changes before it finally saw…
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Navarre Ramps Up Film-tv Hub, San Sebastian Presence
Navarre has never had such a prominent presence at the San Sebastian Festival as in this year’s lineup.Five linked-to-Navarre productions – three films, a TV series and a documentary – will screen at the Festival, highlighting its status as a standout hub for the Spanish audiovisual industry.Navarre’s higher-profile at San Sebastian, the biggest movie event…
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Terry Gilliam Was Adapting a Lost Stanley Kubrick Idea Until Lockdown ‘Ruined Everything’
Provocateur Terry Gilliam has been wending his way back to filmmaking ever since his long-suffering 2018 Cervantes epic “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” finally hit U.S. theaters last year. However, like many directors who were in the middle of new projects, the pandemic has proven a challenge. As revealed in a new interview with…
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Film Constellation scores sales on Terry Gilliam’s ‘He Dreams Of Giants’ (exclusive)
The documentary goes behind-the-scenes of the director’s passion project ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’.UK sales and production outfit Film Constellation has struck a series of deals on He Dreams Of Giants, which explores Terry Gilliam’s 30-year journey to bring the story of Don Quixote to the screen.The documentary, which goes behind-the-scenes of Gilliam passion…
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Terry Gilliam Still ‘Tired’ of #MeToo ‘Witch Hunt’, White Men ‘Being Blamed for Everything’
Over the past few years, when he wasn’t working on getting “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” made, director Terry Gilliam was making sure the world knew his opinion on just about everything and heard his voice. Because, according to Gilliam, the white male voice is simply being silenced these days.In an interview with The…
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Terry Gilliam Liked All of ‘The Irishman’ Except the Last 30 Minutes
Love it or hate it, Netflix’s “The Irishman” has dominated the awards-season conversation. Martin Scorsese’s elegiac, sprawling, three-plus-hour mafia epic unspooled on the streamer over Thanksgiving weekend after a healthy theatrical run that found sold-out showings across the nation. While the film is a slam-dunk for a Best Picture nomination and a surfeit of other…
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He Dreams of Giants review – Terry Gilliam’s inspiring La Mancha sequel
Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe have made a compelling follow-up to their 2002 look at the disastrous production of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote“The truth is, I don’t actually like making films,” Terry Gilliam confesses in Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe’s He Dreams of Giants, their second (and better) feature-length look at Gilliam’s creative…
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‘He Dreams of Giants’ Review: Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Saga Finally Gets a Happy Ending
Terry Gilliam spent 30 years chasing his passion project and finally completed “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” last year. The seriocomic saga folded in on itself, as Gilliam seemed to be trapped in his own Quixotic delusion that his ambitious Spanish production would ever be completed. The first chapter of that struggle was documented…
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Terry Gilliam to receive Cairo Film Festival lifetime achievement award
The director will do an in-conversation event at the Cairo Opera House.Filmmaker Terry Gilliam will receive the honorary lifetime achievement award at the 41st Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff), which runs from November 20-29 this year.The award recognises Gilliam’s outstanding contributions to the film industry. The American director will accept the prize during the festival’s…
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Terry Gilliam Recalls Finishing Heath Ledger’s Final Film Without Him
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” stars Heath Ledger in the title role, but it also stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell in the title role. The reason why is as simple as it is tragic — Ledger died before completing the film — and, with his long-delayed “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”…