The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Long-gestating commentary on fantasy and delusion is Terry Gilliam at his most Gilliamesque (for better or worse)

"...bizarre trait. Without it, no filmmaker would get anything done. But with it, they can end up down peculiar..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Review: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Was it worth the wait for Terry Gilliam's fools' errand?

"...been predictable about Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote...."

Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

Glass Half Full Theatre's Don Quixote de La Redo

This imaginative spin on Cervantes tells of walls and the stories that inspire us to tear them down

"...technicians working to preserve his dystopian legacy stumble across Don Quixote in the pile of pages and mortar. As..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Lost in La Mancha

"...to put to film his freewheeling adaptation of Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Gilliam sought to bring the same kind of..."

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Zero Theorem

This science-fiction romp from director Terry Gilliam explores a demented and surreal technological future.

"...future. In keeping with his endless attempt to film Don Quixote, Gilliam’s film is about a lone, slightly mad..."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Harsh Times

A gritty drama about a disappointed military vet and his best pal, who are headed in a downward spiral in South Central Los Angeles.

"...for a job with the LAPD. Like a sinister Don Quixote, Jim drives through the darkest parts of Los..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

"...from a motorist in a stalled vehicle and a Don Quixote figure perched by a windmill. No one knows...."

April 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fathers and Sons

"...also starring in a modernistic local theatre production of Don Quixote (Greene and Jackson appear in small roles as..."

Jan. 8, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Review: The Book of Mormon

Outlandish, unlikely musical hit might make you a believer

"...Fish don't get much farther out of water than the leads..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles 3. Sex by Madonna, photographs by Steven Meisel 4. Fernando Pessoa & Co...."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

Letters at 3AM

This month celebrates the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' 'Don Quixote,' the first great novel of Western literature and the most prophetic, in which deconstruction, postmodernism, and literary theory wind up bumping into one another and falling down hard

"...This month celebrates the 400th anniversary of Cervantes' Don Quixote, the first great novel of Western literature and..."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Tideland

Terry Gilliam misfires completely in this dreary, unfocused, and exhausting psychodrama.

"...Gilliam set out to make a screen version of Don Quixote in 2000, he ran up against a longstanding..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Don Quixote

In Ballet Austin's take on Cervantes' old knight, youthful vigor and good humor pretty much carried the day

"...Don Quixote..."

May 16, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Moore Is Better

"...and in the end it's revealed that she has done so, in a bitter and helpless way...."

Nov. 20, 1998 Books Review by Marion Winik

Exhibitionism

"...him play out the story of his literary creation, Don Quixote. While the darkened room in which Live Oak..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Arts Review

Ballet Austin: Save the last dance for me

Four of the company's most gifted dancers are taking their leaves after this season's finale

"...dancers this year. With this week's season-closing production of Don Quixote in Dell Hall at the Long Center, four..."

May 9, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Man of La Mancha

You may think you know Don Quixote, but did you know that Man of La Mancha made him a hero to the counterculture?

"...He is he, Don Quixote, the Man of La Mancha, and though you..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fantastic Fest Wave Three Crashes Down

Music and madness fill festival lineup

"...meditation Mid90s, Terry Gilliam's long-awaited The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and David Robert Mitchell's follow-up to his breakout..."

Sept. 13, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bedside Manner: Books In My Possession, Which I May or May Not Read

A consumer guide to recent purchases

"...The Man Who Was Don Quixote: The Story of Miguel Cervantes, Rafaello Busoni. This..."

Dec. 1, 2011 Books Post by Wells Dunbar

Lost in La Mancha

It's not a Halloween movie, but Lost in La Mancha offers a glimpse into Terry Gilliam's own personal nightmare.

"...for the Terry Gilliam disaster The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Johnny Depp. The epic was never completed...."

Oct. 31, 2003 Screens Review by Darcie Stevens

The Years With Carlos Fuentes

Carlos Fuentes says he can not imagine a world without Shakespeare and Cervantes, but it is impossible to imagine a Mexico without Fuentes.

"...was not there if Shakespeare had not written him. Don Quixote would not be there if Cervantes had not..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Books Feature by David Garza

It's a Wrap

Austin Film Festival 2002 reviews

"...managed to make his film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. But as the documentarians continue to circle the..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Screens Feature by Sam Hurwitt

The Adventures of Sancho Panza

Guitar Techs

"...A tech's work, you see, is never done. Despite holding a position well above the obligatory family-member..."

June 23, 1995 Music Feature

The Duke

Jim Broadbent is charming in this socially minded true-crime comedy

"...Portrait of the Duke of Wellington was stolen from London’s National Gallery. The police were convinced that it must..."

May 6, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

American Underdog

Kurt Warner biopic is too winsome to win big

"...of an impossible dream, one in which a midwestern Don Quixote doggedly tilts at the hierarchal structure of professional..."

Dec. 24, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

In Silico

Study of the attempt to replicate a human brain overthinks everything

"...an interdisciplinary visionary, an arrogant techno dude bro, or Don Quixote?..."

April 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Ghost of Peter Sellers

The tale of the comedy genius' lost film, and how he shredded it

"...acolyte, Terry Gilliam, to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote)...."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Trip to Greece

Coogan and Brydon's latest culinary comedy is a dish too far

"...Directed by: Michael Winterbottom. Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Rebecca Johnson and Marta Barrio...."

May 22, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Woman at War

Saving the world, one wry laugh at a time in this Icelandic eco-comedy

"...an Artemis, we begin to wonder, or merely a Don Quixote tilting her arrow at electrical power lines as..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chron of Us: Fantastic Fest Day 1

Download our podcast for reviews of Halloween and more

"...• David Gordon Green's widely anticipated resurrection of the Halloween franchise (plus..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

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