Gilliam compels throughout...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 15, 2022

A documentary that should be shown in all film schools.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 13, 2022

A gem ... for all those that love the movies, even the ones that don't get made.

| Aug 14, 2020

Anyone who thinks making movies is easy needs to see this hilariously painful cautionary tale. It's a tribute to Gilliam that he never once took off his mike or asked the filmmakers to stop rolling.

| Mar 9, 2018

A fascinating look at the tenuous nature of filmmaking and Mr. Gilliam's own quixotic obsession with the project.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2007

In the end, I'm left with an immeasurable appreciation for how bloody hard 1st A.D.'s work on set, and the crap they've got to deal with.

| Original Score: A | Jun 21, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

It's worth watching to catch glimpses of the Gilliam works, and to be strangely reassured that disasters and misfortune happen even to the best artists.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 15, 2005

entertaining without always being compelling

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2004

I'd pay to watch Terry Gilliam take out his trash, but there's nothing in Lost in La Mancha much more exciting than that.

Full Review | Jul 7, 2004

A fascinating documentary for film fans. Those who are not real film fans or film students probably won't find it as interesting.

| Original Score: B | Jan 18, 2004

Seeing Gilliam's vision falter is simply painful and joyless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 8, 2003

Viewers always seem to have a strange curiosity about disasters.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 27, 2003

This is a lively film, as optimistic in tone as Don Quixote is in character. And Terry Gilliam is a bright, expansive and enthusiastic filmmaker, a likeable, charismatic guy who jokes about having a budget of US$31.5 million being "half the money we need"

| Jun 25, 2003

The only person who has jousted at more windmills than Don Quixote seems to be Terry Gilliam.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 2, 2003

If something about you causes you to root for Terry Gilliam too, you should definitely seek this film out

Full Review | May 19, 2003

Lost In La Mancha will have you alternately wincing, laughing and, finally, weeping at the thought that we may never see this potentially brilliant movie.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 14, 2003

Filled with humor and human drama, this La Mancha is an intriguing place for film lovers to get lost.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2003

A fascinating record of how the movie fell apart, piece by piece, with everything short of a natural disaster conspiring against the filmmaker.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 2, 2003

Unique, fascinating, funny and sad.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | May 1, 2003