There’s no business like Spam business

The Cinema Art at The Met series continues on March 2-3 with the documentary “Lost in La Mancha. ” Designed as a making-of video, the kind that is usually included in the DVD package, “Lost in La Mancha” is instead a story of failure.

Terry Gilliam, the only American member of the famed Monty Python comedy troupe, is a film director of some repute. I consider his 1985 film “Brazil” the best variation on George Orwell ‘s novel “1984” ever filmed. “Lost in La Mancha” tells how Gilliam’s dream to make a big-screen version of “Don Quixote” fell prey to what insurers generally call “acts of God.”

But who knows why such things happen. Maybe there wasn’t enough Spam on the cateter’s cart.