feeling listless

Film Currently taking a break from watching the DVD of 'Lost in La Mancha' the documentary with follows the efforts of Terry Gilliam to get his film Don Quixote off the ground again. I'm not expert (on anything as regular readers of this weblog will attest), but if your can't get your actors together for a readthrough, your project may be in trouble. Just the looks Johnny Depp is giving Gilliam as they both watch the production literally being washed away are tragic. Wierd seeing Sally Phillips, Miranda Richardson and Dan Patterson in the cast mugshots; it must be wierd to be cast in a film, be ready to go and then find it isn't happening. I always said that if I ever won big big on the lottery I would contact my five favourite directors and offer them a million to make any film they want. Gilliam would be in there, because anything he turned up, even on that low budget would sure to be extraordinary. [For anyone else who's bought this DVD: Reviewing the things on Radio Five the other week, Mark Kermode explained that the first time he knew his interview had been included on the DVD was when he clicked onto the special features ...]