"Little Children" at the 44th New York Film Festival

Not only was the movie infinitely better than the book, and not only was the movie a magnificent mingling of genres, but Todd Field was on hand for a Q&A afterward. Three noteworthy bits:

(1) Field based the incessantly clicking clocks in the McGorvey house on his childhood home.

(2) He called himself "conventional and pat" after someone in the audience called the movie's ending "conventional and pat," a sly, self-deprecating way of handling a dumb question.

(3) According to his worldview, there are no happy endings--only stories that aren't over.