Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Tony Grisoni | ... | Self - Co-Writer |
Philip A. Patterson | ... | Self - First Assistant Director (as Phil Patterson) | |
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René Cleitman | ... | Self - Producer |
Terry Gilliam | ... | Self - Writer & Director | |
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Nicola Pecorini | ... | Self - Director of Photography |
José Luis Escolar | ... | Self - Line Producer | |
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Bárbara Pérez-Solero | ... | Self - Ass't. Set Decorator |
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Benjamín Fernández | ... | Self - Production Designer (as Benjamin Fernandez) |
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Andrea Calderwood | ... | Self - Former Head of Production, Pathé |
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Ray Cooper | ... | Self - Longtime Gilliam Colleague |
Gabriella Pescucci | ... | Self - Costume Designer | |
Carlo Poggioli | ... | Self - Co-Costume Designer | |
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Bernard Bouix | ... | Self - Executive Producer |
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Fred Millstein | ... | Self - Completion Guarantor |
Jeff Bridges | ... | Narrator (voice) |
Director Terry Gilliam is the latest filmmaker to try and bring Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra's "Don Quixote de la Mancha" to the big screen, the movie to be called The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Before filming even begins, Gilliam, who has moved from Hollywood studio to European financing, will have to scale back his vision as his budget has been slashed from $40 million to $32 million, still astronomical by European standards. But Gilliam is a dreamer, much like his title character, and his vision for the movie is uncompromising, meaning with the reduced budget that there is no margin for error and that some of his department heads may have to achieve miracles with their allotted moneys. During pre-production and actual filming, what Gilliam does not foresee is contractual and health issues with his actors, and the effects of Mother Nature. The question is does Gilliam have a Plan B if/when things go wrong. Written by Huggo
LOST IN LA MANCHA (2003) ***1/2 Uproariously funny and insightful documentary by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe who originally were shooting a making of docu for director Terry Gilliam's latest film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote which soon became a document of Murphy's Law: Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Gilliam's plagued production is a cautionary and comic parable for budding filmmakers as well as the struggles a true visionary has in Hollywood even when faced with foreign backers instead. Hopefully the aborted project will one day continue for the brilliantly subversive Gilliam; only time will tell in this timeless fable of folly. Features Johnny Depp, Jean Rochefort and narrated by Jeff Bridges.