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“LOST IN LA MANCHA"
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
★★★ out of
BY DAVID AXE
THE GAMECOCK
“Lost in La Mancha” is a film about a
film about a book about books. More
specifically — and helpfully — it’s a doc
umentary about Terry Gilliam’s effort to
adapt Cervantes’ Don Quixote to film,
which is a book about an old man who
reads too many books.
Confused yet? It only gets worse.
Gilliam, a former animator for “Monty
Python,” is the critically acclaimed di
rector of such films as “Brazil” and
“Time Bandits.” He’s also a raving lu
natic with a giggle like a 4-year-old girl.
Hisfilms are bizarre at best (“Twelve
Monkeys”) and incomprehensible at
worst (“Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas”).
For over a decade Gilliam has been
trying to mount a film adaptation of •■lit?;
Cervantes’ book. His version is called
“The Man who Killed Don Quixote.”'*
His movie meshes Cervantes’ 15th f
century tale of a deluded old man i
who battles imaginary foes, with a
time-travel story. The plot follows.
an American insurance salesman {
who someow gets transported to **
medieval Spain and is mistaken by
Quixote for his portly sidekic
Sancho Panza. „
Needless to say. finding financiers fh _
such a film has been difficult. The pr
ect has seen several false starts. But I
nally and with much fanfare. Gilliant and
♦‘LA MANCHA,’SEE PAGE 8
SHOW REVIEW
Howie turns life into literature
DANIELLE HOWLE
Jammin’ Java
★★★★★ out of
BY J.P. STEPHENS
THE GAMECOCK
Danielle Howie can morph life
into literature. She’s a storyteller
with a gift for conveying those
moments that all of us have ex
perienced, especially if we’re
southern. And she makes it
sound like she’s talking over
fried chicken and sweet tea.
But last Saturday she played
at Jammin’ Java for a small
crowd that was, at best, sedate.
It’s clear we need to give more
support to the local scene when
great shows like this draw 45 peo
ple on a weekend.
Near the Columbia Art
Museum on Main Street, the un
derground coffeehouse consis
tently brings talented musicians
to their tiny corner stage. It was
the perfect venue for Saturday’s
performance, intimate and
smokeless, with acoustics that
allowed the audience to hear the
performers.
Django Haskins opened the
night, letting loose his persona
like a man possessed, lighting
the coffee shop’s tiny stage with a
performance two parts comedy
and eight parts solid folk rock. It
would have been easy to lose
yourself in Haskins’ quips and
wildly shaking hips if his music
weren’t so good.
Melodies catchy enough to
serve as background music for a
teen drama disguised lyrics that
ranged from clever to the sub
lime. Haskins’ songs were deep
and soulful yet totally accessible,
making it almost obscene how he
delivered them from a television
friendly face begging to be inter
viewed by Carson Daly.
Howie took the stage a little af
ter 10 p.m. and Haskins joined on
guitar and vocals for a few songs.
Moving from her own blend of
southern folk/acoustic rock to
jazz standards to a rendition of
the traditional “Will the Circle
be Unbroken,” Howie wowed the
audience with her personality,
writing and voice.
Practically every major music
publication in the country has
praised Howie. She’s played at
Lilith Fair and opened for the
Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco and
Bob Dylan. Howie has the best
♦ HOWLE, SEE PAGE 8
CD REVIEW
*26 miles ’ runs off
its 3 instrumentals
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second solo album, I was anxious
to hear what he had to offer. His
previous release, “Let it Fall”,
held to the non-traditional blue
grass style that helped Nickel
Creek win its 2003 Grammy for
best contemporary folk album.
“26 Miles” strays far ancMride
from that format, to very mixed
results.
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its price based on the three in
strumentals alone. “Chutes and
Ladders” fuses jazz and rock
with a bluegrass undertone that
should delight anyone who's ever
wanted to go to Bonaroo.
“N.M.I.” is both soothing and
♦ WATKINS, SEE PAGE 9
“26 MILES”
Sean Watkins
★★★ out of #*☆**
BYJ.P. STEPHENS
THE GAMECOCK
I’m a huge fan of Nickel Creek,
so when their guitarist Sean
Watkins released “26 Miles,” his
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the Nickelodeon Theatre
through tonight.
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