Lost in La Mancha

Biographical Documentary DVD - Director Terry Gilliam fights his own windmill dragons in Lost in La Mancha, the behind-the-scenes documentary about the director's long-gestating and still-unfinished Don Quixote project. Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe and narrated by Jeff Bridges (costar of Gilliam's The Fisher King), it follows the efforts of Gilliam, his actors (including Johnny Depp), and his crew through weeks of pre-production and a few harrowing days of principal photography. Everything that could possibly go wrong does, spectacularly, leading to the ultimate collapse of the project. Along the way we learn of Orson Welles's failed attempt to film the literary masterpiece, and of Gilliam's reputation as an out-of-control visionary often called "Captain Chaos." Plenty of reference is made to Gilliam's close brush with over-budget disaster, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, though his well-documented studio battles during the making of Brazil go curiously unmentioned. Throughout, Gilliam remains