{"id":256,"date":"2003-05-04T22:11:52","date_gmt":"2003-05-04T22:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2003\/05\/04\/lost-in-la-mancha\/"},"modified":"2003-05-04T22:11:52","modified_gmt":"2003-05-04T22:11:52","slug":"lost-in-la-mancha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2003\/05\/04\/lost-in-la-mancha\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in La Mancha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0308514\">Lost in La Mancha<\/a> when it was on at the cinema but when I saw the DVD sat on the shelf at Heffers I just had to rent it.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;ve not heard about it: it&#8217;s a documentary about failing to make a film.  It was originally meant to be the &#8216;making of&#8217; documentary for Terry Gilliam&#8217;s &#8220;The Man Who Killed Don Quixote&#8221; but the production of the film fell apart and the documentary was released as a feature film instead.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fascinating to watch as preproduction starts off shakily and then filming is begun with high hopes.  However the proximity of a NATO bombing range and a stunning storm combined with the failing health of the star, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Rochefort,%20Jean\">Jean Rochefort<\/a>, combine to cause filming to be abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>The extras on the DVD were pretty worthwhile too, especially the interview with Terry Gilliam.  The interview with Johnny Depp was pretty painful though, he doesn&#8217;t seem to be the worlds best interview subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed Lost in La Mancha when it was on at the cinema but when I saw the DVD sat on the shelf at Heffers I just had to rent it. In case you&#8217;ve not heard about it: it&#8217;s a documentary about failing to make a film. It was originally meant to be the &#8216;making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}