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Lost in La Mancha
Directed by
Keith Fulton
,
Louis Pepe
R
2002
1h 33m
Documentary
7.3
94%
77%
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Terry Gilliam's doomed attempt to get his film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), off the ground.
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Cast of Lost in La Mancha
Jeff Bridges
Narrator (voice)
Johnny Depp
Self
Vanessa Paradis
Self
Jean Rochefort
Self
Terry Gilliam
Self - Writer & Director
Tony Grisoni
Self - Co-Writer
Philip A. Patterson
Self - First Assistant Director
Nicola Pecorini
Self - Director of Photography
Andrea Calderwood
Self - Former Head of Production
Bernard Bouix
Self - Executive Producer
René Cleitman
Self - Producer
José Luis Escolar
Self - Line Producer
Benjamín Fernández
Self - Production Designer
Bárbara Pérez-Solero
Self - Assistant Set Decorator
Gabriella Pescucci
Self - Costume Designer
Carlo Poggioli
Self - Co-Costume Designer
Fred Millstein
Self - Completion Guarantor
Ray Cooper
Self - Longtime Gilliam Colleague
Orson Welles
Self (archive footage)
Keith Fulton
Director / Writer
Louis Pepe
Director / Writer
Lucy Darwin
Producer
Rosa Bosch
Producer
Andrew J. Curtis
Producer
Lost in La Mancha Ratings & Reviews
Newsweek
David Ansen
Anyone who thinks making movies is easy needs to see this hilariously painful cautionary tale. It's a tribute to Gilliam that he never once took off his mike or asked the filmmakers to stop rolling.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
A fascinating study in the cinematic arts, as we watch a talented director and a committed crew and cast thwarted by nature, human failings and just plain bad luck.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
... The very fancifulness that makes Lost in La Mancha enjoyable also inadvertently slights Gilliam's professional loss - a loss, he makes clear, that was quite personal, too.
Dallas Morning News
Jane Sumner
Should be required viewing for all film-school students, aspiring filmmakers and studio suits.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Bitterly funny and oddly poignant.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
One hopes that some day Gilliam gets to realize his dream, but in the meantime, in Lost In La Mancha, the shards of that dream offer tantalizing -- and tear-inducing -- glimpses of what might have been.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
I'd like Lost in La Mancha more if it didn't take the easy but misleading route of dovetailing Gilliam's frustrations into Welles's, and then dovetailing both into Quixote's.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
A fascinating chronicle of bad luck, bad faith and bad weather all striking on the same day.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's disconcerting to recommend this movie for its entertainment value, but highly watchable it is.
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
Entertaining documentary about how badly everything went.
Slate
David Edelstein
A fascinating glimpse at the fragile ecosystem of a movie shoot, but I'm bound to say that I don't share its view of Gilliam.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Some films end with a whimper; this one banged into a stone wall.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
[Works best] as an entry in the genre of Hollywood schadenfreude pioneered by the 1991 Apocalypse Now documentary Hearts of Darkness.
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
You can interpret Lost in La Mancha as a sort of triumph of the creative spirit.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Does exactly what it sets out to do, describing the picture Gilliam was hoping to make and showing just how wrong it went. But it's also an elegy for every doomed picture that was never made.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The filmmakers, Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton, get perilously close to the glitches and backbiting, the mad logistical frustrations that derailed Gilliam's Quixote.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
[W]onderful look at how movies are made or how movies fall apart.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Captures one of the wildest, most heartbreaking episodes in Gilliam's career.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Fulton and Pepe have created an extraordinary document.
Newsday
John Anderson
Unfortunately, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe have made rather underwhelming work of Gilliam's overwhelming problems.
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