The Making of Quixote

[Donald McKinney]

Spanish interview with Gilliam: http://www.cadenaser.com/programa/2018/0...44518.html

[bruttenholm]

And another one (the title they chose has not much to do with the interview itself) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-aQn-skAo

[cclark]

Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote to Play Sydney Film Festival:
https://www.filmink.com.au/happening-ter...-festival/

The Sydney Film Festival runs from June 6 – 17.

[bruttenholm]

El Pais has a long interview of Gilliam : https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/05/24/eps...&link=link
You can load it in google translate, it's pretty interesting to read.

[cclark]

@Quixotemovie retweeted this interview with Roque Baños, the film's composer (use Google Translate or Chrome to read):
https://www.goldenglobes.com/articles/el...on-quijote

Bruttenholm, I wanted to ask you about the score. For me, the gold standard of a score in a Gilliam film would have to be the two scores by late, great Michael Kamen (Brazil & Baron Munchausen). How does this one compare?

[cclark]

Another behind-the-scenes Quixote featurette: the Convent of Christ in Tomar:

[cclark]

Casting featurette:

[bruttenholm]

Bruttenholm, I wanted to ask you about the score. For me, the gold standard of a score in a Gilliam film would have to be the two scores by late, great Michael Kamen (Brazil & Baron Munchausen). How does this one compare?

Well, Michael Kamen's scores were remarkable by the way they used simple cues and found ways to use and reuse them in imaginative ways therefore creating a cohesive through-line in the films yet managing to illustrate all their complexities and turns and changes.
Roque Banos's music is less striking as its musical themes are less remarkable. It's a very capable music, that brings many colors (you can approximate the range of it in the featurettes), from comedy to adventure and sweeping romanticism, all with a satisfying spanish touch. Yet it doesn't work on the same level as Kamen's score : by not restricting itself to a set af cues, it seems more rambling. And that can be a problem when the film is one where Gilliam is trying the most in terms of narrative structure. I maybe would have liked a music that could have brought more cohesion to the film while being as changing and expressive.

[cclark]

Thanks for the interesting take on the score, Bruttenholm.

Here's another feature, this one on Quixote's horse, Rocinante:

[cclark]

These kids get it: