Daily Podcast: The Conners, Dear White People, Sinemia, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Terror, Disneyland, and More

On the June 22, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest news, including The Conners, The Terror season 2, Sinemia, Point Blank, Dear White People, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and Disneyland’s dynamic pricing. You can subscribe […]

Terry Gilliam Flies Too Close to the Sun, Loses Rights to ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote‘s curse has struck again. After Terry Gilliam had seemingly won a decades-long battle against God and the universe with the film’s triumphant screening at Cannes last month, the embattled director has been dealt yet another blow. Despite a Paris court ruling in his favor prior to the Cannes screening, Gilliam […]

The First ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Trailer Proves That Terry Gilliam’s Movie Exists

Sometimes seeing is believing. And sometimes, not even seeing is enough to convince us that The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is a real movie that exists. Terry Gilliam‘s disastrous passion project has been 20 years in the making, facing actor injuries, natural disasters, and seemingly the wrath of God himself. And it looked like it […]

Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ is in Trouble Again

Terry Gilliam‘s long-delayed, constantly troubled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is in trouble yet again. Will this film ever see the light of day? Probably not! Read about the new Man Who Killed Don Quixote problems below. Few productions have been as plagued with problems as Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Gilliam set out […]

Hell Freezes Over As Terry Gilliam Nears Completion of ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’

It’s hard to believe, but director Terry Gilliam has been working on The Man Who Killed Don Quixote for almost 20 years. After one setback after another, with bad luck compounding bad luck, it looks as if Gilliam might buck the odds and finally release the film for the world to see. The filmmaker recently revealed […]

Terry Gilliam Defies the Universe, Finishes Filming His ‘Don Quixote’ Movie

Terry Gilliam is one of the most unique talents in the history of cinema…but he is also one of the most unlucky. The director of Brazil, Time Bandits, The Fisher King, and 12 Monkeys may be a visionary director with a few bonafide masterpieces under his belt, but it definitely feels like some kind of higher power has […]

It Took 17 Years and a Documentary’s Worth of Production Catastrophes, But Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote Movie Has Finally Finished Shooting

Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote was so plagued by production issues as to have an entire documentary made about it. 2002 saw the release of Lost in La Mancha, a doc that began as a making-of for the film loosely based on Miguel de Cervantes’ 1605/1615 novel, and morphed into a separate portrait of the Sisyphean […]

Terry Gilliam’s ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ Begins Production, Laughs in the Face of God

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote has apparently begun production and now I’m worried that a giant foot will come down from the sky and crush director Terry Gilliam, Monty Python-style. After all, the forces of nature have kept this project on the ropes for nearly two decades. This isn’t even the first time cameras […]