The Making of Quixote

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Another fantastic review of the making of :

He Dreams Of Giants

Rounding out this year’s DOC NYC preview is arguably the festival’s most anticipated premiere. In 2002, directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe made what remains one of the great portraits of an artist in crisis in the incredible documentary Lost in La Mancha. Genuinely one of the great films not just about filmmaking but of the artistic process writ large, La Mancha is a crushingly beautiful film about a film that was perceived genuinely doomed. Well, some 15-plus years and one completed Terry Gilliam-directed The Man Who Killed Don Quixote later and the pair are back, this time bringing to light the story of a filmmaker not so much destined for doom as one completely and utterly driven to overcome it at all costs, mental or physical. He Dreams of Giants doubles down on the “director in crisis” idea, this time putting both this documentary and the film it chronicles in conversation with Gilliam’s past work, his career writ large and his influences, specifically a film like 8 ½. It’s a gorgeously made, completely captivating deconstruction of one man’s artistic process and the lengths one will go to exorcise their proverbial demons. Living up to the hype set by their previous film, Fulton and Pepe return with a film that outdoes the portrait of a creatively blocked artist better than the film whose making is being portrayed. It’s really an absolute achievement.

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