What? This is actually happening? I can't wait to watch this movie! Right after I finish playing through Half Life 2 Episode 3.

I watched Lost in La Mancha many years ago, and remember the footage from when they began filming. The desert was dry and, yellow and beautiful, and Jean Rochefort on his horse looked incredible. In fact the whole thing looked incredible, and clearly the film was being made. I should have switched off the documentary there and then, and sat quietly to wait for the film premier. Back in the documentary world it started to rain.

I'm reading Walking on Glass by Iain Banks. I'm 80% of the way through, and I still don't understand what the fuck is going on, but I don't think I've ever read a book that seemed such a natural fit for Terry Gilliam's style. For example, two of the main characters are trapped in a massive fortress built from books and serviced by an army of blackly comic midgets, and which they can only escape from by answering a paradoxical riddle. It screams Gilliam.

I'm still half-convinced that Lost in La Mancha was a mockumentary made to help raise money to shoot this. Everything went perfectly wrong in a way that could only happen to Terry Gilliam.