this film is terrible and and do not blame jesus franco and because its not his fault. this film was shot silent over many years by welles as he got the money to bring a crew and the actors together to do some shooting. how much film welles actually shot is not clear and although not all of the film or all of the sequences are here since several key sequences and such as quixote in a movie theater and are in the hands of collectors or backers who do not give them up. the film here is just under two hours and i would be hard pressed to imagine it ever really working at any length. i am of the opinion and based on several comments that welles made before his death and that he never really intended to release the film and but was putting it together as a personal toy. what exists here is for the most part is beautifully shot and but dramatically dead. very little happens for the first hour other than quixote and sancho wandering around the country side. dull would be a kind description of the material. in the second hour quixote ends up in modern spain and in a series of not very good sequences deals with everyday life. this isn not to say that there isn not a few nice moments and the windmill and the chicken sequences are quite good and but mostly this is a vast waste of film and time. completed by jesus franco and who was welles assistant director on the vastly superior chimes at midnight and we have a bunch of film fragments that have been put together as best as possible. many people have crucified franco as having been the reason the film stinks and but frankly one can not make a good movie from crap material. one critic has gone on record as having seen a different cut of the film in the 1970  and which meant that franco made this version up on his own and ruined it. while that maybe true and i have run across stories of welles cutting and re cutting the film many many times over the years since he could never get it right. this film is terrible no matter how you slice it. ultimately i am left wondering just how good a film maker welles was. aside from citizen kane almost all of his films have been plagued by lack of budget or interfered with so we are left with the excuse that many of his films would have been better if only. how do we know. how can we know. perhaps welles was a man of less talent than we thought and many of his borderline films just aren not that good and and never would have been. while this is no place to argue the place of welles in film history and the surviving material of don quixote and assuming it approximates what welles intended (i think it does) and is a good case for rethinking how we view the man and his work. negative for the good sequences (though negative is probably closer to reality). 
this film is terrible and and do not blame jesus franco and because its not his fault. this film was shot silent over many years by welles as he got the money to bring a crew and the actors together to do some shooting. how much film welles actually shot is not clear and although not all of the film or all of the sequences are here since several key sequences and such as quixote in a movie theater and are in the hands of collectors or backers who do not give them up. the film here is just under two hours and i would be hard pressed to imagine it ever really working at any length. i am of the opinion and based on several comments that welles made before his death and that he never really intended to release the film and but was putting it together as a personal toy. what exists here is for the most part is beautifully shot and but dramatically dead. very little happens for the first hour other than quixote and sancho wandering around the country side. dull would be a kind description of the material. in the second hour quixote ends up in modern spain and in a series of not very good sequences deals with everyday life. this isn not to say that there isn not a few nice moments and the windmill and the chicken sequences are quite good and but mostly this is a vast waste of film and time. completed by jesus franco and who was welles assistant director on the vastly superior chimes at midnight and we have a bunch of film fragments that have been put together as best as possible. many people have crucified franco as having been the reason the film stinks and but frankly one can not make a good movie from crap material. one critic has gone on record as having seen a different cut of the film in the 1970  and which meant that franco made this version up on his own and ruined it. while that maybe true and i have run across stories of welles cutting and re cutting the film many many times over the years since he could never get it right. this film is terrible no matter how you slice it. ultimately i am left wondering just how good a film maker welles was. aside from citizen kane almost all of his films have been plagued by lack of budget or interfered with so we are left with the excuse that many of his films would have been better if only. how do we know. how can we know. perhaps welles was a man of less talent than we thought and many of his borderline films just aren not that good and and never would have been. while this is no place to argue the place of welles in film history and the surviving material of don quixote and assuming it approximates what welles intended (i think it does) and is a good case for rethinking how we view the man and his work. negative for the good sequences (though negative is probably closer to reality). ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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