Was Don Quixote’s impossible dream a Yiddisher one? The French author Dominique Aubier, whose study “Don Quixote: Prophet of Israel” has just been reprinted, apparently thinks so. Aubier’s book, which ...
Don Quixote is one of those books whose influence is so far-reaching as to be almost ubiquitous, like The Odyssey, or the Bible. And like the Bible or Homer’s epic, it is more often talked about than ...
Don Quixote lives, in the guise of a former Python who has conjured Cervantes' immortal knight errant as a filmmaker who tilts at windmills and proclaims fantasy to be a preferable mode of survival in ...
Terry Gilliam has tried to make a movie based on Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote for almost thirty years. There have been fits and starts, a production so cursed it was retold in an acclaimed ...
That Miguel de Cervantes was quite likely a converso and that his masterpiece Don Quixote explores quintessential converso concerns is now widely accepted. This article extends the converso hypothesis ...
Midway through its 10th anniversary season, Los Angeles Ballet added another full-length classic to its repertory, a three-act “Don Quixote,” which the company premiered at the Redondo Beach ...
Although Don Quixote wasn’t the first great novel (that honor belongs to the Tale of Genji, written by an 11th-century lady-in-waiting at the Japanese court), it was the first to do something ...
Today, people all over the world will honor the Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes, who died 399 years ago on April 22, 1616. Since then, many readers have connected with the writer and his books, ...
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Paolo Branco is not letting up in his pursuit of compensation over The Man Who Killed Don Quixote rights snafu. However, a statement sent to me today from the film’s producers ...
Billy Ray, whose credits include 'The Hunger Games' and 'Captain Phillips,' is writing the script. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer The studio is developing an adaptation of the classic Spanish novel ...
Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” is reaching screens after 30 years, several cast changes and a flash flood. Those who were there at the start look back. Though he has been likened to ...