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RE: The Making of Quixote - bruttenholm - 05-22-2018
Oh thanks, yeah I don't know why it hadn't appear on the youtube channel of the festival.
RE: The Making of Quixote - bruttenholm - 05-22-2018
Ok they put it on their youtube channel :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh0sJMYs9Qk
they also have a clip of the standing ovation at the end of the screening :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV4SZcAS5Xc
(I don't know how to make videos appear in the forum, sorry)
RE: The Making of Quixote - MercuryZap - 05-22-2018
Thank you, again.
Great to see the standing ovation.
Cheers!
M
RE: The Making of Quixote - cclark - 05-22-2018
I put together a YouTube playlist of all the Quixote videos so far:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLFXf6fKQkjhMBkdQfGoUCglOiRm-7Y_J
RE: The Making of Quixote - cclark - 05-23-2018
Here's Gilliam commenting on Cannes on his Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Terry.Gilliam/photos/a.256735074385314.62810.256730041052484/1772038349521638
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RE: The Making of Quixote - petersio - 05-23-2018
(05-21-2018, 12:30 AM)Donald McKinney Wrote: I want to see him revisit The Defective Detective. That's been around as long as Quixote, he wrote a script with The Fisher King's Richard LaGravenese, it was storyboarded and producer Scott Rudin got Paramount Pictures to greenlight it... Then nothing. Terry tried reviving it after Twelve Monkeys, and he nearly had it ready to go with Nicolas Cage starring, but the opportunity to make Fear and Loathing came up. He mentions it every now and again, but the rights are still with Paramount, a dozen regime changes later, would they still want to do it? But, I feel it's been around too long for it NOT to be made, Quixote is conquered, this should be his next goal. Oh, and he was attached to do adaptations of Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, Larry McMurtry's Anything for Billy and Paul Auster's Mr. Vertigo. Geek Love hasn't been brought up again since 2005, ditto with Anything for Billy, while Mr. Vertigo nearly happened in 2012, but The Zero Theorem was rushed into production. So, he has a few to choose from. I wonder if the Amazon deal is still on, even though they bailed out on Quixote
RE: The Making of Quixote - cclark - 05-23-2018
Ian Schultz of Dirty Movies explains why The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is Terry Gilliam's best film since Brazil:
https://www.dmovies.org/2018/05/23/11436/
RE: The Making of Quixote - bruttenholm - 05-23-2018
In France, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote sold 40212 tickets in 2 days + one night. Apparently it won't be enough to reach the break-even point of 400 000 tickets determined by the distributor : https://twitter.com/boxofficefr/status/999267044523741184
People aren't flocking to see the film. All reports I see is that the screening rooms are half empty. Mine was, and it was the first screening ! I guess it's a mix of late marketing (imposed in a way by paulo branco), a general lack of interest for this kind of film by the general audience (who's going to avengers or star wars, which are trusting screens at the same time) and a lukewarm to poor reception from the press.
The film won't be a good deal for the distributor but it shouldn't be a total disaster, surely the final numbers will be closer to "fear and loathing" (300 000 tickets sold) than to "zero theorem" or "tideland" (which didn't even reach 100 000 tickets sold). Yet I don't know what it will mean for Gilliam bankability or for the international release strategy.
RE: The Making of Quixote - cclark - 05-23-2018
Thanks for the update Bruttenholm. Though it is getting a staggered release, I wonder if a late Summer release would've been better for the film overall. Rotten Tomatoes rating is barely Fresh at 60% (as of this writing), but with 15 reviews total, there aren't enough to have a consensus and RT probably won't post one until the film garners more reviews after it has been released in more countries. Even still, people have come up with their own consensus as you can see from this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/8kf8mv/review_thread_terry_gilliams_the_man_who_killed/
Hopefully, a proper US release will help to tip the scales in the film's favor.
RE: The Making of Quixote - MercuryZap - 05-23-2018
It’s sad but what’s even sadder is it doesn’t really surprise me. Film as a cultural force is truly devalued. The heyday of auturist world cinema holding any cache in the broad public consciousness seems long gone.