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Lost in La Mancha
Why this pick
A close, escalating record of Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Don Quixote production, with the same access to creative ego, industry pressures, and a dream unraveling in public.
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MOVIE2003 1h 22m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Jodorowsky's Dune
Why this pick
It shares Overnight’s fascination with a filmmaker’s grand self-mythologizing, but treats an unrealized dream project as a vivid, infectious portrait of uncompromising creative ambition.
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Burden of Dreams
Why this pick
Werner Herzog’s impossible jungle production becomes an intimate, wry observation of a director testing both his crew and his own conviction beyond any sensible limit.
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The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened?
Why this pick
A passionate reconstruction of a famously abandoned studio film, driven by firsthand accounts of bold ideas, clashing expectations, and the strange afterlife of projects that never get made.
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My Best Fiend
Why this pick
Herzog’s personal account of his explosive collaboration with Klaus Kinski offers the same candid pull of Overnight: filmmaking as a combustible mix of ego, performance, and genuine obsession.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The rise and stumble of Troy Duffy, the bartender-cum-filmmaker who was swept up by Miramax's Harvey Weinstein to turn his script for The Boondock Saints into a feature film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Vincent D'Onofrio
Paul Reubens
Himself
Patrick Swayze
Harvey Weinstein
John Goodman
Billy Connolly
Norman Reedus
