Michael's Telluride Film Blog : The Don is Done / What We Haven't Seen...Yet

Haven't posted on a Tuesday for awhile...

THE DON IS DONE

Well...the filming is complete for Terry Gilliam's 17 year long gestating The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Now it's time for it to move to post-production.

The film has achieved legendary status as an exercise in frustration and perservernce as Gilliam has been trying to get the film made for 17+ years. The film was featured as a part of a documentary that played Telluride back in 2002 (TFF #29). The doc was entitled Lost in La Mancha and Gilliam attended the fest as a part of that.

The Telluride program description for Lost in La Mancha sounds like it could have been written right up until this last year:

Amazon Studios was the principle factor in Gilliam securing the funding to get the project filmed and that makes me think that we could see the film as a part of the TFF #45 lineup. I don't think a Cannes 2018 spot is outside the realm of possibility either.

Linked for your enjoyment are articles about Gilliam's completion from Indiewire, The Playlist, Variety and Slashfilm.

WHAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN...YET

I'm a little surprised that we haven't seen a poster release for TFF #44 as yet. I checked back over the last six years and the fest usually has announced the poster by this time. 2012 was an anomaly as the poster artist and poster weren't announced until July 9th. But each of the other years back to 2011, we've known who and what by this time.

Here's a quick trip down poster memory lane:

2016: