"The Fountainhead" is a guilty pleasure.  It's stodgy and square like an educational film, which I guess it was, in a way.  The characters don't behave remotely like any human beings you've met and there are unintentionally funny scenes like Patricia O'Neal tossing and turning in bed in frustration while she thinks…

Sunspear -

I think the closest any film has gotten to Pynchon's "California" novels has been "The Big Lebowski."  When I first saw it, I thought the absurd situations and outlandish characters were an unspoken tribute to Pynchon, but then I discovered that many of the characters are based on people the Coens know.

@avclub-43c2872b929f4e64e31828b133b59105:disqus  - I wouldn't have remembered on my own in a million years, but according to kirstymaccoll.com, it was the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA on Nov 7, 1993.  Yeah, close to DC, where I was living at the time. 

She's a liar and I'm not sure about you.

In addition to her superlative songwriting, Kirsty was great at covering well known songs: "Days" "Perfect Day" "Miss Otis Regrets" "A New England" "You Just Haven't Earned It…"  All of which stand alongside the originals.

Thank you!  Gotta grab the torrents while I still can. 

Let me add my voice to the choir of "thank yous,"  Will.  Great piece, excellent overview and good insight into "My Affair."

A 76 year old man dying because he was hit by a motorcycle while crossing the street is a disgrace, no matter who he was.

Yeah, it's the John Cleese episode of "The Muppet Show" that's my favorite, though as a Python fan, I'm a little biased.

Yep, "Walkabout" was the episode that made me realize that Lost was going to be something much more unique than just a bunch of castaways forming a community on an island. 

Sorry to ruin the symmetry, but Zoo is often my favorite Greenaway film.  Otherwise, my favorite is The Falls.

I wouldn't start with "The Falls" or his early work.  I'd start with "The Pillow Book," "Drowning by Numbers" or "Belly of An Architect."  They're his most conventional films in terms of narrative, and thus the most accessible.  

You're thinking of "A Walk Through H."  "Vertical Features Remake" is mainly the same footage re-edited four different ways, each according to a different structure or concept.

As far as a political reading is concerned, I never thought that The Thief was supposed to be Thatcher herself but instead represented the new class of arrogant thugs her policies helped create.

I'm sorry that Nyman no longer scores Greenaway's films, but I thought Greenaway's use of pop music in "The Pillow Book" was a refreshing change and suited the film perfectly, and I loved the period music he chose for "The Baby of Macon."

Thank you!

I found "Rembrandt's J'Accuse" much more compelling than "Nightwatching," which I did like, mainly because of Martin Freeman.

Perhaps you're right.  Greenaway has been focusing on multimedia lately:

God bless you.  I didn't even know about this.