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DON OF CREATION.('Lost in La Mancha')('The Guru')(Movie Review)

The New Yorker

| February 03, 2003 | Lane, Anthony | COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

For anyone who suffers from the wish to make movies, or who fears that this terrible condition may strike at any time, here is the cure. "Lost in La Mancha," directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, is a documentary account of Terry Gilliam's efforts to bring "Don Quixote" to the screen. That information alone should be enough to open up endless vistas of possible catastrophe. The level of activity inside the Gilliam brain, first registered in his animated work for Monty Python, is so giddily high that his disasters, such as "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen," seem to exist only inches away from victories like "Brazil" and "The Fisher King." Add to that the aura of ...

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