Tilting at Windmills

Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Lost in La Mancha began as a documentary about the filming of Terry Gilliam's fiction flick The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. The maverick Monty Python alumnus had finally secured the film's US$32 million budget, after 10 years' development and two false starts. His all-star cast included Vanessa Paradis, Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort as Don Quixote. What L.A.-based Fulton and Pepe ultimately captured was an 'unmaking-of' story, as one disaster after another destroyed Gilliam's dream film. Notes Fulton, 'We spent three months in Madrid covering eight weeks of pre-production, one week of actual production and three weeks of slow meltdown.'

May 1, 2002

Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Lost in La Mancha began as a documentary about the filming of Terry Gilliam's fiction flick The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. The maverick Monty Python alumnus had finally secured the film's US$32 million budget, after 10 years' development and two false starts. His all-star cast included Vanessa Paradis, Johnny Depp and Jean Rochefort as Don Quixote. What L.A.-based Fulton and Pepe ultimately captured was an 'unmaking-of' story, as one disaster after another destroyed Gilliam's dream film. Notes Fulton, 'We spent three months in Madrid covering eight weeks of pre-production, one week of actual production and three weeks of slow meltdown.'