It may not match last year’s sheer quantity in competition strands, but Spain still boasts a high quality presence at the Berlinale. Following, highlights the festival and EFM:
“Every You Every Me,” (Michael Fetter Nathansky)
A factory worker strives to reconnect with her distant husband, exploring the rediscovery of love within the complexities of relationships. From Contando Films, Studio Zentral, Network Movie and Nephilim, a German-Spanish production.
“Cura Sana,” (Lucía G. Romero)
Produced by Escac Films, this Generation 14plus premiere delves into sisters’ lives shaped by ancestral violence, exploring deep familial bonds and lasting impact of abuse.
“Deprisa, Deprisa,” (Carlos Saura)
A classic: Set to a memorable flamenco-pop score, four young Madrid delinquents pull robberies, snort heroin, steal cars the film capturing the raw energy youth and their vague, but visceral sense of ‘liberty.’ A restoration of a seminal work.
“The Human Hibernation,” (Anna Cornudella)
A sci-fi exploration of siblings undergoing hibernation,...
“Every You Every Me,” (Michael Fetter Nathansky)
A factory worker strives to reconnect with her distant husband, exploring the rediscovery of love within the complexities of relationships. From Contando Films, Studio Zentral, Network Movie and Nephilim, a German-Spanish production.
“Cura Sana,” (Lucía G. Romero)
Produced by Escac Films, this Generation 14plus premiere delves into sisters’ lives shaped by ancestral violence, exploring deep familial bonds and lasting impact of abuse.
“Deprisa, Deprisa,” (Carlos Saura)
A classic: Set to a memorable flamenco-pop score, four young Madrid delinquents pull robberies, snort heroin, steal cars the film capturing the raw energy youth and their vague, but visceral sense of ‘liberty.’ A restoration of a seminal work.
“The Human Hibernation,” (Anna Cornudella)
A sci-fi exploration of siblings undergoing hibernation,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
A new film industry superclass is emerging in Spain: movies powered or co-backed by its streaming giants.
Perhaps the biggest example, Netflix Spain’s Andes flight disaster “Society of the Snow,” scored two Academy Award nominations last month.
Now, in the run-up to Berlin, London-based Film Constellation has acquired most world sales rights to “The Captive,” from Oscar winner Alejandro Amenábar (“The Sea Inside”) and Mod Producciones, a $15 million period adventure epic on the literary makings of “Quixote”author Miguel de Cervantes, held to ransom in a Moorish corsair jail.
Film Factory Ent. will take to market Iciar Bollain’s “I Am Nevenka,” about a feminist pioneer in Spain, and an untitled project from “Prison 77’s” Alberto Rodriguez, two fruit of the first movie slate from Movistar Plus+, the biggest Spanish pay TV/SVOD player, announced in January.
Spanish movies overperform on Netflix and Movistar Plus+. As of Feb.
Perhaps the biggest example, Netflix Spain’s Andes flight disaster “Society of the Snow,” scored two Academy Award nominations last month.
Now, in the run-up to Berlin, London-based Film Constellation has acquired most world sales rights to “The Captive,” from Oscar winner Alejandro Amenábar (“The Sea Inside”) and Mod Producciones, a $15 million period adventure epic on the literary makings of “Quixote”author Miguel de Cervantes, held to ransom in a Moorish corsair jail.
Film Factory Ent. will take to market Iciar Bollain’s “I Am Nevenka,” about a feminist pioneer in Spain, and an untitled project from “Prison 77’s” Alberto Rodriguez, two fruit of the first movie slate from Movistar Plus+, the biggest Spanish pay TV/SVOD player, announced in January.
Spanish movies overperform on Netflix and Movistar Plus+. As of Feb.
- 2/16/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Principal photography is set to begin in April on “The Captive” (“El Cautivo”), the period adventure epic from Alejandro Amenábar, whose “The Sea Inside” won an Oscar for best foreign language film. Film Constellation has boarded worldwide sales, and will introduce the project to buyers at the European Film Market.
The film centers on the origin story of Miguel de Cervantes, the author of the iconic novel “Don Quixote.” At the age of 28, Cervantes was taken captive by the Moors in Algiers, leading to his creative birth.
The $15 million production will shoot at locations in Spain including Valencia, Alicante and Seville.
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is on board to release the film in Spain next year.
The film is set in Algiers in 1575 when Cervantes, a wounded 28-year-old Spanish Navy soldier, is held prisoner by Ottoman corsairs. Faced with a ticking clock, a cruel death awaits him should his...
The film centers on the origin story of Miguel de Cervantes, the author of the iconic novel “Don Quixote.” At the age of 28, Cervantes was taken captive by the Moors in Algiers, leading to his creative birth.
The $15 million production will shoot at locations in Spain including Valencia, Alicante and Seville.
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures is on board to release the film in Spain next year.
The film is set in Algiers in 1575 when Cervantes, a wounded 28-year-old Spanish Navy soldier, is held prisoner by Ottoman corsairs. Faced with a ticking clock, a cruel death awaits him should his...
- 1/30/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Blackjack is a game of chance. The most popular casino banking game in the world, it is derived from a global family of financial games known as Twenty-One and is played with 52 decks of cards. Pontoon and Vingt-et-Un are also part of the Pontoon family of card games. Players of blackjack do not face off against one another. Each player plays against the dealer in a card game in which they compare their cards.
The History
Vingt-Un, an English translation of twenty-one of uncertain origin, was the game’s direct predecessor. The first recorded use of the term can be traced back to the works of Miguel de Cervantes. For veintiuna, they say the goal is to get 21 points without exceeding and that the ace has a numerical value of either 1 or 11. The Spanish baraja deck is used to play the game.
Veintiuna has been performed in Castile ever since the 17th century or earlier,...
The History
Vingt-Un, an English translation of twenty-one of uncertain origin, was the game’s direct predecessor. The first recorded use of the term can be traced back to the works of Miguel de Cervantes. For veintiuna, they say the goal is to get 21 points without exceeding and that the ace has a numerical value of either 1 or 11. The Spanish baraja deck is used to play the game.
Veintiuna has been performed in Castile ever since the 17th century or earlier,...
- 6/27/2022
- by Michael Walsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Madman director Terry Gilliam, director 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and so many others is Finally releasing his passion project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in April and a new trailer has dropped for it.
The screenplay is written by Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, based on the original novel by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra.
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, an advertising executive, for his trusty squire, Sancho Pan...
The screenplay is written by Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, based on the original novel by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra.
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, an advertising executive, for his trusty squire, Sancho Pan...
- 2/26/2019
- QuietEarth.us
New York City’s annual Doc NYC festival kicks off this week, including a full-to-bursting slate of some of this year’s most remarkable documentaries. If you’ve been looking to beef up on your documentary consumption, Doc NYC is the perfect chance to check out a wide variety of some of the year’s best fact-based features. Ahead, we pick out 14 of our most anticipated films from the fest, including some awards contenders, a handful of buzzy debuts, and a number of festival favorites. Take a look and start filling up your schedule now.
Doc NYC runs November 9 – 16 in New York City.
“EuroTrump”
Donald Trump may seem like a sui generis figure, a one-of-a-kind monster who was forged in a perfect storm of racism, tweets, and chaos, but history suggests that he’s really just a new breed of an old type. You don’t even have to look...
Doc NYC runs November 9 – 16 in New York City.
“EuroTrump”
Donald Trump may seem like a sui generis figure, a one-of-a-kind monster who was forged in a perfect storm of racism, tweets, and chaos, but history suggests that he’s really just a new breed of an old type. You don’t even have to look...
- 11/7/2017
- by Kate Erbland, David Ehrlich, Jude Dry, Anne Thompson, Chris O'Falt, Michael Nordine and Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Rochefort, who scored a major international success in The Hairdresser’s Husband, was also cast as Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Cervantes adaptation
Related: After 17 years, has Terry Gilliam finally broken the curse of Don Quixote?
Jean Rochefort, the French actor who played a key role in one of the most ill-fated movie sagas in Hollywood history, has died aged 87, his daughter said on Monday.
Continue reading...
Related: After 17 years, has Terry Gilliam finally broken the curse of Don Quixote?
Jean Rochefort, the French actor who played a key role in one of the most ill-fated movie sagas in Hollywood history, has died aged 87, his daughter said on Monday.
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- 10/9/2017
- by Staff and agencies
- The Guardian - Film News
“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
Author: Linda Marric
Director Andrew Kötting’s latest Psycho-geographical feature offers up far more questions than it is likely to answer, and his many fans wouldn’t want to have it otherwise. Edith Walks is a brilliantly shambolic and wonderfully ramshackle adventure which reconciles it audiences with the weird and wonderful world of King Harold’s “handfast” wife Edith The Fair (Edith Swan Neck), who alone was able to identify his mutilated body as he lay dead after the battle of Hastings in 1066.
Featuring author Iain Sinclair and with a truly impressive performance from brilliantly eclectic singer Claudia Barton as Edith herself, the film is a pilgrimage of sorts which seeks to retrace Harold’s lover’s journey from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards-On-Sea to be reconnected with her dead king.
Accompanied by a merry band of weird and wonderful characters, Kötting uses a super...
Director Andrew Kötting’s latest Psycho-geographical feature offers up far more questions than it is likely to answer, and his many fans wouldn’t want to have it otherwise. Edith Walks is a brilliantly shambolic and wonderfully ramshackle adventure which reconciles it audiences with the weird and wonderful world of King Harold’s “handfast” wife Edith The Fair (Edith Swan Neck), who alone was able to identify his mutilated body as he lay dead after the battle of Hastings in 1066.
Featuring author Iain Sinclair and with a truly impressive performance from brilliantly eclectic singer Claudia Barton as Edith herself, the film is a pilgrimage of sorts which seeks to retrace Harold’s lover’s journey from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards-On-Sea to be reconnected with her dead king.
Accompanied by a merry band of weird and wonderful characters, Kötting uses a super...
- 6/20/2017
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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
Chris here, with some heartwarming news: a film nearly twenty years in the making has finally wrapped filming. You'll remember Terry Gilliam's ill-fated attempts to adapt Cervantes's legendary Don Quixote to the big screen as they were told in the documentary Lost in La Mancha - floods, lost funding, and casting woes made this film one of the most notorious productions of all time.
But now Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will rise from the ashes of cinema history. Gilliam has completed filming - with a new cast that includes Adam Driver, Jonathan Price, and Stellan Skarsgård - and Amazon will bring the film to theatres sometime next year. Someone please protect the digital print (or film, if Gilliam went that route) from any mishandling so that Gilliam isn't put through the ringer again!
Gilliam's last film The Zero Theorem came and went quietly,...
But now Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will rise from the ashes of cinema history. Gilliam has completed filming - with a new cast that includes Adam Driver, Jonathan Price, and Stellan Skarsgård - and Amazon will bring the film to theatres sometime next year. Someone please protect the digital print (or film, if Gilliam went that route) from any mishandling so that Gilliam isn't put through the ringer again!
Gilliam's last film The Zero Theorem came and went quietly,...
- 6/6/2017
- by Chris Feil
- FilmExperience
After 17 years, Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” has finally turned the corner from cursed film project to completed movie, a historic and improbable milestone that has many people asking, “Is it really true?” One of the most troubled productions in the history of cinema, the project has been tormenting Gilliam for more than 25 years, since he first started tinkering with a screenplay adaptation in 1991.
Read More: Cannes 2016: Terry Gilliam on ‘Continual Failure’ and ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’
Despite several false starts over the years, Gilliam never bought into the idea that the project was doomed. “The curse is bullshit,” he said during an interview with IndieWire at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016, a year that also marked the 400th anniversary of the death of “Don Quixote” writer Miguel de Cervantes.
Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgard and Olga Kurylenko, the film tells...
Read More: Cannes 2016: Terry Gilliam on ‘Continual Failure’ and ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’
Despite several false starts over the years, Gilliam never bought into the idea that the project was doomed. “The curse is bullshit,” he said during an interview with IndieWire at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016, a year that also marked the 400th anniversary of the death of “Don Quixote” writer Miguel de Cervantes.
Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgard and Olga Kurylenko, the film tells...
- 6/5/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Way, way back in 1998, Brazil and Twelve Monkeys director Terry Gilliam embarked on making The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a very Gilliam-esque take on Miguel de Cervantes’ 16th century novel Don Quixote. With the original novel concerning an insane Spanish nobleman thinking himself to be a knight bringing back chivalry and justice to the world, Gilliam’s vision saw Johnny Depp as a 21st century marketing executive thrown back in time, and being mistaken for Quixote’s sire, Sancho Panza. Production began in September of 2000, quickly becoming one of the most disastrous shoots of all time. As chronicled in the documentary Lost in La Mancha, weather problems, nervous investors, and even the Spanish military added to the movie’s production woes. The final nail in the coffin came when Dox Quixote himself, Jean Rochefort, was diagnosed with a double herniated disc after attempting to act while riding a horse,...
- 6/5/2017
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Some 17 years after he first started pre-production, Terry Gilliam has finally wrapped principal photography on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a project once so notoriously beleaguered and stuck in near-mythical "development hell" that a documentary was even made about it.
Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgard and Olga Kurylenko, the film — inspired by Miguel De Cervantes' literary classic Don Quixote — has been shooting on location across Spain and Portugal, and tells the story of a deluded old man, convinced he is the famed horse-riding hero and who mistakes an advertising executive for...
Starring Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgard and Olga Kurylenko, the film — inspired by Miguel De Cervantes' literary classic Don Quixote — has been shooting on location across Spain and Portugal, and tells the story of a deluded old man, convinced he is the famed horse-riding hero and who mistakes an advertising executive for...
- 6/5/2017
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Author: Zehra Phelan
Terry Gilliam’s 17-year passion project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce has finally wrapped principal photography in Madrid.
A tale of fantasy and adventure inspired by the legendary protagonist of Miguel De Cervantes’ literary classic 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 embarks 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 where Toby takes on the mantle of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Writer/ director Terry Gilliam, who has been...
Terry Gilliam’s 17-year passion project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote starring Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce has finally wrapped principal photography in Madrid.
A tale of fantasy and adventure inspired by the legendary protagonist of Miguel De Cervantes’ literary classic 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 embarks 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 where Toby takes on the mantle of Don Quixote de la Mancha.
Writer/ director Terry Gilliam, who has been...
- 6/5/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Terry Gilliam finally knocked down the windmill. After nearly two decades of work, several failed attempts and any number of different actors attached to the project, “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” has finally wrapped production. Gilliam — whose efforts to loosely adapt Miguel de Cervantes’ timeless novel inspired the documentary “Lost in La Mancha” — marked the occasion with a celebratory Facebook post.
“Sorry for the long silence. I’ve been busy packing the truck and am now heading home,” he wrote. “After 17 years, we have completed the shoot of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Muchas gracias to all the team and believers. Quixote Vive!”...
“Sorry for the long silence. I’ve been busy packing the truck and am now heading home,” he wrote. “After 17 years, we have completed the shoot of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Muchas gracias to all the team and believers. Quixote Vive!”...
- 6/4/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
“The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” has had so much trouble getting made that it would almost be a letdown if the long-gestating project ever sees the light of day. Terry Gilliam has been tilting at windmills for nearly 20 years at this point, and now the film has hit a new snag: Alfama Films released a statement on Friday deeming it “patently illegal.”
Read More: Terry Gilliam Has Begun Shooting ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,’ For Real This Time
Alfama’s Paulo Branco spoke to the Hollywood Reporter at Cannes, accusing Gilliam of “clandestinely” working on the film behind his back and even “pursuing the production with other partners.” Whether true or not, such a strange state of affairs is certainly apropos of the Cervantes’ charmingly (and tragically) out-of-his-depth knight errant.
“The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” first entered pre-production in 1998 and, at one point or another, everyone from...
Read More: Terry Gilliam Has Begun Shooting ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,’ For Real This Time
Alfama’s Paulo Branco spoke to the Hollywood Reporter at Cannes, accusing Gilliam of “clandestinely” working on the film behind his back and even “pursuing the production with other partners.” Whether true or not, such a strange state of affairs is certainly apropos of the Cervantes’ charmingly (and tragically) out-of-his-depth knight errant.
“The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” first entered pre-production in 1998 and, at one point or another, everyone from...
- 5/21/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Tim Blake Nelson, last seen in Nacho Vigalondo’s monster film Colossal, has been tapped as the lead in The True Don Quixote. The indie is directed by Chris Poche, who also wrote the screenplay, which is based on the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Spider-Man: Homecoming‘s Jacob Batalon will co-star in the pic, which began shooting today in New Orleans. Charterhouse Films’ Trey Burvant is producing alongside and Jason Waggenspack of Neutral Ground Films. The…...
- 5/8/2017
- Deadline
Tim Blake Nelson will star in The True Don Quixote, a modern day reimagining of Miguel de Cervantes' classic story.
Nelson will star as a man who is inspired by the fictional Quixote, who spent too much time with romance stories and consequently believes he is a knight. Spider-Man: Homecoming newcomer Jacob Batalon is set to play the movie's Quixote sidekick Sancho Panza.
Chris Poche (Over the Hedge) wrote and will helm the project, which has begun principal photography in New Orleans.
Charterhouse Films' Trey Burvant and Neutral Ground Films' Jason Waggenspack will produce, with Karey Kirkpatrick, Rick French, Sal Scaccia, Josh Mayer, Susan Brennan and Sidney...
Nelson will star as a man who is inspired by the fictional Quixote, who spent too much time with romance stories and consequently believes he is a knight. Spider-Man: Homecoming newcomer Jacob Batalon is set to play the movie's Quixote sidekick Sancho Panza.
Chris Poche (Over the Hedge) wrote and will helm the project, which has begun principal photography in New Orleans.
Charterhouse Films' Trey Burvant and Neutral Ground Films' Jason Waggenspack will produce, with Karey Kirkpatrick, Rick French, Sal Scaccia, Josh Mayer, Susan Brennan and Sidney...
- 5/8/2017
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Averting the bigger is better approach that plagues most franchises, The Trip series is attuned to life’s simple pleasures: cuisine, comedy, and companionship. For Michael Winterbottom, Steve Coogan, and Rob Brydon, their third outing, The Trip to Spain, refreshingly doesn’t stray from the charismatic formula that has resulted in perhaps the most delightful series of films this decade.
Sparing little narrative formalities, as has become part and parcel for these expeditions, Coogan, having concluded a series with Martin Scorsese, and Brydon, eager to take a break from child-rearing duties, set off on another assignment, this time heading to the southwest of Europe. Coogan takes on a Cervantes-inspired “Don Quixote”-esque journey as he reads Laurie Lee’s “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning” and attempts to write his own book about his voyage, while Brydon is once again filing restaurant reviews. Aside from the expected, but still as-hilarious-as-ever host of impressions,...
Sparing little narrative formalities, as has become part and parcel for these expeditions, Coogan, having concluded a series with Martin Scorsese, and Brydon, eager to take a break from child-rearing duties, set off on another assignment, this time heading to the southwest of Europe. Coogan takes on a Cervantes-inspired “Don Quixote”-esque journey as he reads Laurie Lee’s “As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning” and attempts to write his own book about his voyage, while Brydon is once again filing restaurant reviews. Aside from the expected, but still as-hilarious-as-ever host of impressions,...
- 4/23/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
François Truffaut’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian, illiterate future looks better than ever, but the scary part is that some of its oddest sci-fi extrapolations seem to be coming true. It’s a movie that truly grows on one. The Bernard Herrmann music score is one of the composer’s very best.
Fahrenheit 451
Blu-ray
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
1966 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 112 min. / 50th Anniversary Edition / Street Date June 6, 2017 / $14.98
Starring Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spencer, Bee Duffell.
Cinematography: Nicolas Roeg
Production Designers: Syd Cain, Tony Walton
Film Editor: Thom Noble
Original Music: Bernard Herrmann
Written by François Truffaut & Jean-Louis Richard from the book by Ray Bradbury
Produced by Lewis M. Allen, Miriam Brickman
Directed by François Truffaut
Quality science fiction was once a hard sell with both critics and the public. Fahrenheit 451 is usually discussed either as a Science Fiction film or a François Truffaut movie,...
Fahrenheit 451
Blu-ray
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
1966 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 112 min. / 50th Anniversary Edition / Street Date June 6, 2017 / $14.98
Starring Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spencer, Bee Duffell.
Cinematography: Nicolas Roeg
Production Designers: Syd Cain, Tony Walton
Film Editor: Thom Noble
Original Music: Bernard Herrmann
Written by François Truffaut & Jean-Louis Richard from the book by Ray Bradbury
Produced by Lewis M. Allen, Miriam Brickman
Directed by François Truffaut
Quality science fiction was once a hard sell with both critics and the public. Fahrenheit 451 is usually discussed either as a Science Fiction film or a François Truffaut movie,...
- 4/18/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Bruce Baillie. Courtesy of Lux. The first time he saw Bruce Baillie, a fiery Peter Kubelka recounted in front of an amused audience at the Austrian Film Museum, the American filmmaker was pulling off a headstand in a classroom before taking his students out on the campus to collect garbage. In the filmmaking of Baillie and his organization Canyon Cinema, which was showcased from January 30 to February 3 in five programs curated by Garbiñe Ortega, ideas of life and community are transformed into sounds, colors and film. Sometimes those ideas exceed the films. As Mr. Baillie has put it himself in an interview with Richard Corliss in 1971, “I always felt that I brought as much truth out of the environment as I could, but I’m tired of coming out of. . . . I want everybody really lost, and I want us all to be at home there. Something like that. Actually I am not interested in that,...
- 3/21/2017
- MUBI
Director Terry Gilliam has been trying to get his film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote made for the past 17 years. Today, he's once again started shooting the film, and hopefully this time it isn't plagued by problems like the first time, which was chronicled in the classic documentary Lost in La Mancha. This is the filmmaker's seventh attempt to make the film!
Last year it was announced that Adam Driver (The Force Awakens) would be taking on the lead role that was originally played by Johnny Depp. Over the years, both Jack O'Connell and Ewan McGregor were attached to the role.
Jonathan Pryce (Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Brothers Grimm) is set to play Miguel de Cervantes, the hero of the story. That role previously had Michael Palin, Robert Duvall, Jean Rochefort, and the late John Hurt attached to it.
The movie also stars Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace...
Last year it was announced that Adam Driver (The Force Awakens) would be taking on the lead role that was originally played by Johnny Depp. Over the years, both Jack O'Connell and Ewan McGregor were attached to the role.
Jonathan Pryce (Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Brothers Grimm) is set to play Miguel de Cervantes, the hero of the story. That role previously had Michael Palin, Robert Duvall, Jean Rochefort, and the late John Hurt attached to it.
The movie also stars Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace...
- 3/10/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Brendon Connelly Mar 10, 2017
Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has finally started filming...
We like to keep you up to date. Actually, keeping you up to date is actually our job. But sometimes... well, in my case, just this one time, I kept a secret from you.
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For some time now I have known that Jonathan Pryce had replaced Michael Palin in Terry Gilliam's so infamous it's infamously infamous, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. I almost told you, but... let's just say that the production are trying to keep their heads down and I didn't want to knock them off their game. Now, though, Pryce's name has been added to the site of Entre Chien et Loup, one of the film's production companies so, by my record, that's public domain: http://www.
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For some time now I have known that Jonathan Pryce had replaced Michael Palin in Terry Gilliam's so infamous it's infamously infamous, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. I almost told you, but... let's just say that the production are trying to keep their heads down and I didn't want to knock them off their game. Now, though, Pryce's name has been added to the site of Entre Chien et Loup, one of the film's production companies so, by my record, that's public domain: http://www.
- 3/9/2017
- Den of Geek
The actor’s Elysium Bandini Studios produced the projects in association with Los Angeles film schools.
Cinedigm Corp. has acquired all North American rights to The Heyday Of The Insensitive Bastards and Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha, produced by James Franco, Jennifer Howell and Vince Jolivette’s Elysium Bandini Studios.
The Heyday Of The Insensitive Bastards was produced in conjunction with UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and stars Franco, Tyler Labine, Kate Mara, Jim Parrack, Natalie Portman, Rico Rodriguez, Abigail Spencer, Amber Tamblyn, Thomas Mann and Kristen Wiig.
The film has a unique structure comprised of a series of vignettes that run the whole gamut of emotions as the film delves into universal themes of memory, longing and loss.
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha was produced in conjunction with USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and was written and directed by students in Franco’s USC graduate...
Cinedigm Corp. has acquired all North American rights to The Heyday Of The Insensitive Bastards and Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha, produced by James Franco, Jennifer Howell and Vince Jolivette’s Elysium Bandini Studios.
The Heyday Of The Insensitive Bastards was produced in conjunction with UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television and stars Franco, Tyler Labine, Kate Mara, Jim Parrack, Natalie Portman, Rico Rodriguez, Abigail Spencer, Amber Tamblyn, Thomas Mann and Kristen Wiig.
The film has a unique structure comprised of a series of vignettes that run the whole gamut of emotions as the film delves into universal themes of memory, longing and loss.
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman Of La Mancha was produced in conjunction with USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and was written and directed by students in Franco’s USC graduate...
- 3/3/2017
- ScreenDaily
Contained within its sly title, as well as its inventive narrative, Spanish filmmaker Chico Pereira’s second nonfiction feature, Donkeyote, is a modern-day pastorale, at once an homage to the director’s childhood hero, his Uncle Manolo, and Miguel de Cervantes’ classic tale of a man who sets out to become one of the heroes of his own imagination. The story weaves together fragments of memory, dreams, metaphysics — and a good dose of illusion. Playing the role of Sancho Panza is the elegant, stalwart and self-possessed donkey of the title, a burro called Gorrión (“sparrow”, in Spanish). With his dog Zafrana […]...
- 3/3/2017
- by Pamela Cohn
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Munich-based family entertainment specialist kicks off sales at Afm.
Studio 100 Film has taken on world sales of feature-length children’s animation Quixote’s – The Heirs of La Mancha.
A spin-off of Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century classic novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, the 3D animation revolves around 11-year-old Alfonso, the heir of the world famous anti-hero Don Quixote.
In the company of three musical rabbits and best friends Pancho and Victoria, Alfonso is on a mission to protect his beloved hometown from the designs of evil triplets German, Tomas and Andrew.
“Our film aims to give a different, fresh and youthful tone to the already world-famous literary masterpiece written by Cervantes,” said director Gonzalo Gutierrez.
Los Angeles-based writer Carlos Kotkin, whose credits include Rio 2, wrote the screenplay.
Buenos Aires-based company Gg VFX production is producing the film for a 2018 delivery.
“The story promises an exciting adventure for kids and families alike,” comments Patrick...
Studio 100 Film has taken on world sales of feature-length children’s animation Quixote’s – The Heirs of La Mancha.
A spin-off of Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century classic novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, the 3D animation revolves around 11-year-old Alfonso, the heir of the world famous anti-hero Don Quixote.
In the company of three musical rabbits and best friends Pancho and Victoria, Alfonso is on a mission to protect his beloved hometown from the designs of evil triplets German, Tomas and Andrew.
“Our film aims to give a different, fresh and youthful tone to the already world-famous literary masterpiece written by Cervantes,” said director Gonzalo Gutierrez.
Los Angeles-based writer Carlos Kotkin, whose credits include Rio 2, wrote the screenplay.
Buenos Aires-based company Gg VFX production is producing the film for a 2018 delivery.
“The story promises an exciting adventure for kids and families alike,” comments Patrick...
- 11/2/2016
- ScreenDaily
How do you adapt an epic 17th century novel for the modern day? Written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote has proven to be an incredibly influential work of art over the past 500 years and has been adapted for the big screen numerous times. Ub Iwerks, who created Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney, directed an animated version in 1934 (below). Peter O'Toole starred in Man of La Mancha (top), a 1971 film version. Director Terry Gilliam has been struggling to make his adaptation, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, since 1998; the project may soon be in production. Now Disney plans its own version, according to The Hollywood Reporter. What sort of approach will be taken with the classic source material? Reportedly, "the plan is to adapt the work in a tone that...
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- 10/14/2016
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
How do you adapt an epic 17th-century novel for the modern day? Written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote has proven to be an incredibly influential work of art over the past 500 years and has been adapted for the big screen numerous times. Ub Iwerks, who created Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney, directed an animated version in 1934 (below). Peter O'Toole starred in Man of La Mancha (top), a 1971 film version. Director Terry Gilliam has been struggling to make his adaptation, The...
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- 10/14/2016
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Terry Gilliam, look away now; Disney has issued the green light for a movie based on Don Quixote, the chivalrous Spanish madcap created by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, revealing that it is Billy Ray of The Hunger Games and Captain Phillips fame that has been elected to write a modern spin on the 1605 tome. Sources claim that the House of Mouse is angling for a Pirates of the Caribbean-like romp, though whether that indicates the studio sense franchise potential is another question entirely.
As for the Ingenious Gentleman known as Don Quixote, he began life as lower-class aristocrat Alanso Quixano. Driven to the point of madness after indulging in too many fantasy novels, our naive hero swears blind that such fantastical tropes as giants, dragons, knights and princesses trapped in high castles exist in the real world, leading him to christen himself Don Quixote and begin his delirious crusade.
The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop, revealing that it is Billy Ray of The Hunger Games and Captain Phillips fame that has been elected to write a modern spin on the 1605 tome. Sources claim that the House of Mouse is angling for a Pirates of the Caribbean-like romp, though whether that indicates the studio sense franchise potential is another question entirely.
As for the Ingenious Gentleman known as Don Quixote, he began life as lower-class aristocrat Alanso Quixano. Driven to the point of madness after indulging in too many fantasy novels, our naive hero swears blind that such fantastical tropes as giants, dragons, knights and princesses trapped in high castles exist in the real world, leading him to christen himself Don Quixote and begin his delirious crusade.
- 10/14/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
As Terry Gilliam continues to struggle to get his Don Quixote movie off the ground, Disney has started developing their own feature film based on the legendary character. The studio has hired The Hunger Games and Captain Phillips scribe Billy Ray to write the script.
According to THR, the plan is to transform the classic story written by Cervantes Saavedra into a wildly fun and fantastical film that's in the same style of the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Makes me wonder if they plan on casting Johnny Depp in the title role.
Don Quixote was published in 1605, and it tells the story told of a lower-class aristocrat named Alanso Quixano who, "after reading too many novels about chivalry, loses his sanity and comes to believe that knights, maidens and dragons really exist. Making a portly neighbor his squire, the man refashions himself a knight named Don Quixote and sets...
According to THR, the plan is to transform the classic story written by Cervantes Saavedra into a wildly fun and fantastical film that's in the same style of the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Makes me wonder if they plan on casting Johnny Depp in the title role.
Don Quixote was published in 1605, and it tells the story told of a lower-class aristocrat named Alanso Quixano who, "after reading too many novels about chivalry, loses his sanity and comes to believe that knights, maidens and dragons really exist. Making a portly neighbor his squire, the man refashions himself a knight named Don Quixote and sets...
- 10/14/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Screenwriter Billy Ray reportedly working on adaptation of classic novel about the delusional, romantic knight
A film based on Miguel de Cervantes’ classic picaresque tale Don Quixote is in development at Disney, it has emerged.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, screenwriter Billy Ray is working on an adaptation of Quixote that recalls “the madcap and fantastical nature of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movies”. If successful, it could become the basis for a Pirates-style franchise. Ray, writer on Captain Phillips and The Hunger Games, is also on board as producer.
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A film based on Miguel de Cervantes’ classic picaresque tale Don Quixote is in development at Disney, it has emerged.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, screenwriter Billy Ray is working on an adaptation of Quixote that recalls “the madcap and fantastical nature of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean movies”. If successful, it could become the basis for a Pirates-style franchise. Ray, writer on Captain Phillips and The Hunger Games, is also on board as producer.
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- 10/14/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Sancho Panza might become Hollywood’s next staggering, slurring, Rolling Stones-inspired culture hero, with news coming today that Disney is developing its own movie based on Miguel Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Variety reports that the media conglomerate has tapped Hunger Games writer Billy Ray to build a script out of Cervantes’ 1605 novel of delusional chivalry, with an eye toward giving it a “Pirates of the Caribbean vibe” and the possibility of creating a multi-movie franchise.
Meanwhile, we can only imagine what this news will do to Terry Gilliam, who’s now spent roughly a third of his life trying to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, despite every setback conceivable by man or god. Maybe it’ll be liberating, freeing Gilliam from the cursed project that’s consumed so much of his professional life. Or maybe the hypothetical sight of his old friend Johnny Depp swanning around with a ...
Meanwhile, we can only imagine what this news will do to Terry Gilliam, who’s now spent roughly a third of his life trying to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, despite every setback conceivable by man or god. Maybe it’ll be liberating, freeing Gilliam from the cursed project that’s consumed so much of his professional life. Or maybe the hypothetical sight of his old friend Johnny Depp swanning around with a ...
- 10/14/2016
- by William Hughes
- avclub.com
Well this is an interesting story. Around six years ago, it was announced that Joel Silver, the producer as such films as Sherlock Holmes, would be working with Warner Bros. to bring another adaptation of Don Quixote to the big screen. In the original story, it was stated that they’d be aiming to give it the same tone and style as the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
A couple years later, it was announced that Disney would be following in Warner Bros.’ footsteps, developing their own Don Quixote film, with actor Johnny Depp attached to produce. This one would be a modern re-imagining of the classic story, but it never came to fruition.
Now THR is reporting that Disney is continuing on with the project…except not really. Yes, they are hard at work on an adaptation of the Miguel Cervantes novel. No, it will not be the same...
A couple years later, it was announced that Disney would be following in Warner Bros.’ footsteps, developing their own Don Quixote film, with actor Johnny Depp attached to produce. This one would be a modern re-imagining of the classic story, but it never came to fruition.
Now THR is reporting that Disney is continuing on with the project…except not really. Yes, they are hard at work on an adaptation of the Miguel Cervantes novel. No, it will not be the same...
- 10/13/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
The news that Disney is making a film version of Don Quixote, the legendary 1605 book by Miguel de Cervantes that is often credited as being the root of the modern novel, is, by itself, not that surprising. Classic literally characters being reinvented by Hollywood is nothing new – just ask everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Robin Hood. But […]
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- 10/13/2016
- by Jacob Hall
- Slash Film
Tony Sokol Oct 14, 2016
Disney is looking for a Pirates Of The Caribbean-esque film adaptation of Don Quixote...
News has reached us that there will be a new Don Quixote movie, but it’s not the one we have been waiting for. Disney is developing a motion picture adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s 1605 novel about a man who believes he is a knight, and a country that thinks he’s a nut. Terry Gilliam, of course, has been trying to get his off the ground for years now. Documentaries have been written, shot and screened about his version, which is still in production hell (the latest was it was set to film this month, but further money troubles have put that back). Maybe if Terry put on Mouse ears.
The screenplay for Disney’s Don Quixote is being written by Billy Ray, who penned The Hunger Games and Captain Phillips.
Disney is looking for a Pirates Of The Caribbean-esque film adaptation of Don Quixote...
News has reached us that there will be a new Don Quixote movie, but it’s not the one we have been waiting for. Disney is developing a motion picture adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s 1605 novel about a man who believes he is a knight, and a country that thinks he’s a nut. Terry Gilliam, of course, has been trying to get his off the ground for years now. Documentaries have been written, shot and screened about his version, which is still in production hell (the latest was it was set to film this month, but further money troubles have put that back). Maybe if Terry put on Mouse ears.
The screenplay for Disney’s Don Quixote is being written by Billy Ray, who penned The Hunger Games and Captain Phillips.
- 10/13/2016
- Den of Geek
After a saga nearly as long as the Miguel de Cervantes epic, director Terry Gilliam was supposed to start shooting “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” this fall. But like Quixote’s sidekick Sancho Panza, he just can’t seem to win. Gilliam appeared yesterday on BBC’s Radio 2 Arts Show with Jonathan Ross and revealed that the intended production start date of Oct. 4 was not to be, as a producer on the film failed to deliver the goods. “I was supposed to start to be shooting it starting next Monday. It’s been slightly delayed,” Gilliam said. “I had this producer,...
- 9/30/2016
- by Matt Pressberg
- The Wrap
That one behind-the-scenes photo was just the beginning… of more behind-the-scenes photos. Production on Terry Gilliam‘s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has entered its early days: while principal photography won’t commence until October 4 (so says Screen Daily), the director is location-scouting throughout Madrid and Portugal, and (thanks to Indiewire) evidence of his exploits can be found above and below. Let the choice of top image immediately tell you which one I get the most pleasure from.
As you probably know by now, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 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 (Michael Palin), who mistakes him for Sancho Panza.
If these set photos are any indication, many a beautiful place will background their adventures. After you watch Gilliam’s Cannes presentation, have a look...
As you probably know by now, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 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 (Michael Palin), who mistakes him for Sancho Panza.
If these set photos are any indication, many a beautiful place will background their adventures. After you watch Gilliam’s Cannes presentation, have a look...
- 8/3/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The story of Terry Gilliam‘s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has evolved over the years to become the horror story parents tell young filmmakers. Gilliam set out to make his fantastical re-imagining of Cervantes’ legendary novel back in 1998, but a series of increasingly insane on-set disasters halted production and the already stretched financing fell […]
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- 8/2/2016
- by Jacob Hall
- Slash Film
Combine the director of a beloved Best Picture nominee with a recent Pulitzer winner and you have… well, the results have yet to be seen, but Warner Bros. and Brett Ratner‘s RatPac Entertainment (what a vile name) are tapping Brooklyn helmer John Crowley for The Goldfinch, their adaptation of Donna Tartt‘s 2013 novel of loss, grief, violence, and redemption. [Deadline]
This might be the most natural choice among contemporary directors, though The Goldfinch has a much darker undertone than Crowley’s smash hit. Tartt’s epic kicks off with a terrorist attack (upon New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art) that spares 13-year-old Theodore Decker and takes his mother, with whom he stays connected through Carel Fabritius’ eponymous painting — an item he stole from the attack’s site. That work follows him through years and years of pain, up to and including an eventual redemption.
The Goldfinch is likely to...
This might be the most natural choice among contemporary directors, though The Goldfinch has a much darker undertone than Crowley’s smash hit. Tartt’s epic kicks off with a terrorist attack (upon New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art) that spares 13-year-old Theodore Decker and takes his mother, with whom he stays connected through Carel Fabritius’ eponymous painting — an item he stole from the attack’s site. That work follows him through years and years of pain, up to and including an eventual redemption.
The Goldfinch is likely to...
- 7/20/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Brendon Connelly Jul 19, 2016
Willem Dafoe and Stellan Skarsgard have been cast in Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...
Though no announcement has yet been issued to the trades, there's now solid word on the casting of Willem Dafoe and Stellan Skarsgard in Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote coming right from the source: the website of one of the companies actually backing the production.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is a modern-day story which Don Quixote appears to be alive and well and reliving the same story all over again, just with a slightly different supporting cast this time.
We know already that Adam Driver will be playing Toby Grossini, the lead character and Sancho Panza stand-in, and that Michael Palin has been cast as Quixote, the Man of La Mancha himself. Olga Kurylenko is onboard too, playing a role that was, I think,...
Willem Dafoe and Stellan Skarsgard have been cast in Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...
Though no announcement has yet been issued to the trades, there's now solid word on the casting of Willem Dafoe and Stellan Skarsgard in Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote coming right from the source: the website of one of the companies actually backing the production.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is a modern-day story which Don Quixote appears to be alive and well and reliving the same story all over again, just with a slightly different supporting cast this time.
We know already that Adam Driver will be playing Toby Grossini, the lead character and Sancho Panza stand-in, and that Michael Palin has been cast as Quixote, the Man of La Mancha himself. Olga Kurylenko is onboard too, playing a role that was, I think,...
- 7/19/2016
- Den of Geek
Keyboardist Anna Eberhart had no idea anyone was filming her when she was performing with the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corp recently. The 17-year-old Texas native was playing in the group's 2016 show, Quixotic - a tribute to Don Quixote of La Manche - and making fierce, dramatic faces during a section in which Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's character falls into insanity. "Don Quixote goes crazy, so I was making crazy faces," the young musician tells People. "We weren't necessarily told to make those faces, but I did anyway." A mesmerized viewer in the audience, baker Mike O'Neil, was so taken by Anna's performance,...
- 7/13/2016
- by Dave Quinn, @NineDaves
- PEOPLE.com
Today in 1972, the first Broadway revival of Man of La Mancha opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where it ran for 140 performances. Man of La Mancha is a musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote. It tells the story of the 'mad' knight, Don Quixote, as a play within a play, performed by Cervantes and his fellow prisoners as he awaits a hearing with the Spanish Inquisition.The original 1965 Broadway production ran for 2,328 performances and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The musical has been revived four times on Broadway, becoming one of the most enduring works of musical theatre.
- 6/22/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Never give up on your dreams, people. If Terry Gilliam can go through a cancelled production and more than fifteen years’ worth of failed attempts… well, hopefully you don’t have to, too, but just know that such struggles can be overcome. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, in its newest and (seemingly) most resilient form, is moving forward with Adam Driver, Michael Palin, and Olga Kurylenko — so much so that the director and producer Paulo Branco recently attended Cannes for the purpose of officially announcing its development. (Which still isn’t the furthest a production has gone, but…)
What would initially seem a dry presentation — you have to love that static camera! — quickly becomes revealing, from details of production’s start (October) to when it might premiere (Cannes 2017) to why his (thus-far-announced) cast makes for the a perfect choices. (Short story: Driver is the only actor to read Cervantes’ text,...
What would initially seem a dry presentation — you have to love that static camera! — quickly becomes revealing, from details of production’s start (October) to when it might premiere (Cannes 2017) to why his (thus-far-announced) cast makes for the a perfect choices. (Short story: Driver is the only actor to read Cervantes’ text,...
- 5/24/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The director speaks in Cannes about the ‘disease’ of trying to shoot Cervantes’s book, casting man-of-the-moment Driver, and the guilt he feels about the shoot for Monty Python and the Holy Grail
It is, according to its director, “the Sisyphean rock that keeps rolling back”. A film, more than 20 years in the making, that’s been stalled by vanishing funds, flash floods and disease. Yet Terry Gilliam is again pushing The Man Who Killed Don Quixote up the hill.
The director’s treasured adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’s book has seen years of false starts. A who’s-who of acting talent have been attached to play the arrogant, dreamy Don (Jean Roquefort, Robert Duvall, John Hurt) and an approximation of his staunch squire Sancho Panza (Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Jack O’Connell). All departed, for reasons ranging from the dull (Depp’s been too busy making films for...
It is, according to its director, “the Sisyphean rock that keeps rolling back”. A film, more than 20 years in the making, that’s been stalled by vanishing funds, flash floods and disease. Yet Terry Gilliam is again pushing The Man Who Killed Don Quixote up the hill.
The director’s treasured adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’s book has seen years of false starts. A who’s-who of acting talent have been attached to play the arrogant, dreamy Don (Jean Roquefort, Robert Duvall, John Hurt) and an approximation of his staunch squire Sancho Panza (Johnny Depp, Ewan McGregor, Jack O’Connell). All departed, for reasons ranging from the dull (Depp’s been too busy making films for...
- 5/20/2016
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Adam Driver and Michael Palin are set to take over the lead roles in the newest incarnation of Terry Gilliam's long-gestating and long-suffering passion project "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote".
Alfama Films, Tornasol Films and Leopardo Filmes are teaming up to co-produce the $18 million budget project which will go before cameras in September with Paulo Branco producing.
It marks the latest go at filming on 'Man', a riff on Miguel de Cervantes' legendary novel about a modern man who goes back in time and joins the titular character on an epic quest. Gilliam first attempted to adapt it around the turn of the century with both Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort starring.
As soon as filming began, things went wrong - Nato tested aircraft, a flash flood wiped out sets, and Rochefort had a major injury. The project collapsed. Gilliam has since tried to get the film off the ground several times,...
Alfama Films, Tornasol Films and Leopardo Filmes are teaming up to co-produce the $18 million budget project which will go before cameras in September with Paulo Branco producing.
It marks the latest go at filming on 'Man', a riff on Miguel de Cervantes' legendary novel about a modern man who goes back in time and joins the titular character on an epic quest. Gilliam first attempted to adapt it around the turn of the century with both Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort starring.
As soon as filming began, things went wrong - Nato tested aircraft, a flash flood wiped out sets, and Rochefort had a major injury. The project collapsed. Gilliam has since tried to get the film off the ground several times,...
- 5/17/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Terry Gilliam is like the human punching bag of filmmakers. No matter how many hits he takes — which has been far too many throughout his bumpy career — he remains passionate, persistent, and unwilling to let go of dream projects, such as The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Gilliam’s long-suffering fantastical adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ novel […]
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- 5/17/2016
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
Terry Gilliam's long in the works and always troubled dream project, "The Man Who Killed Quixote," will be making an attempt to go before the cameras once again later this year.
THR says Alfama Films, Tornasol Films and Leopardo Filmes are teaming up to co-produce the $18 million budget project which will go before cameras in September with Paulo Branco producing.
It marks the latest go at filming on 'Man', a riff on Miguel de Cervantes' legendary novel about a modern man who goes back in time and joins the titular character on an epic quest. Gilliam first attempted to adapt it around the turn of the century with both Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort starring.
As soon as filming began, things went wrong - Nato tested aircraft, a flash flood wiped out sets, and Rochefort had a major injury. The project collapsed. Gilliam has since tried to get...
THR says Alfama Films, Tornasol Films and Leopardo Filmes are teaming up to co-produce the $18 million budget project which will go before cameras in September with Paulo Branco producing.
It marks the latest go at filming on 'Man', a riff on Miguel de Cervantes' legendary novel about a modern man who goes back in time and joins the titular character on an epic quest. Gilliam first attempted to adapt it around the turn of the century with both Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort starring.
As soon as filming began, things went wrong - Nato tested aircraft, a flash flood wiped out sets, and Rochefort had a major injury. The project collapsed. Gilliam has since tried to get...
- 4/1/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Jack O’Connell and John Hurt to star in long-delayed Cervantes adaptation that was abandoned in 1999 after series of disasters struck shoot
Terry Gilliam finally has the go-ahead to restart shooting on his long-delayed adaptation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote 17 years after it was abandoned, it has been announced.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will begin filming in September after financing was provided by Cosmopolis producer Paulo Branco. The budget has been set at €16m (£12.8m), and the film will feature John Hurt and Unbroken’s Jack O’Connell in roles originally occupied by Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp.
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Terry Gilliam finally has the go-ahead to restart shooting on his long-delayed adaptation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote 17 years after it was abandoned, it has been announced.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote will begin filming in September after financing was provided by Cosmopolis producer Paulo Branco. The budget has been set at €16m (£12.8m), and the film will feature John Hurt and Unbroken’s Jack O’Connell in roles originally occupied by Jean Rochefort and Johnny Depp.
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- 4/1/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Shoot is due to take place in Spain and Portugal on long-gestating project, now joined by producer Paolo Branco.
Producer Paulo Branco (Cosmopolis) has boarded Terry Gilliam’s long-in-gestation The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which the director has been struggling to produce since 1998.
According to a simple release headlined “Paulo Branco to produce Terry Gilliam’s mythical project”, principal photography will start in September 2016, with the shoot taking place in Spain and Portugal.
Branco’s Paris-based Alfama Films is producing the feature with Spanish outfit Tornasol Films and Leopardo Films. It is budgeted at $18.2m (€16m), according to the release.
The feature, based on a screenplay by Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, is loosely based on Miguel de Cervantes’s iconic novel Don Quixote.
There was no detail on who would play Quixote or Toby Grisoni – a time-travelling sidekick added to the story in Gilliam and Grisoni’s screen version.
Gilliam first tried...
Producer Paulo Branco (Cosmopolis) has boarded Terry Gilliam’s long-in-gestation The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which the director has been struggling to produce since 1998.
According to a simple release headlined “Paulo Branco to produce Terry Gilliam’s mythical project”, principal photography will start in September 2016, with the shoot taking place in Spain and Portugal.
Branco’s Paris-based Alfama Films is producing the feature with Spanish outfit Tornasol Films and Leopardo Films. It is budgeted at $18.2m (€16m), according to the release.
The feature, based on a screenplay by Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, is loosely based on Miguel de Cervantes’s iconic novel Don Quixote.
There was no detail on who would play Quixote or Toby Grisoni – a time-travelling sidekick added to the story in Gilliam and Grisoni’s screen version.
Gilliam first tried...
- 3/31/2016
- ScreenDaily
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