Ben Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” has already received an award at the Mill Valley Film Festival, and has major Oscar-buzz surrounding it. With an eclectic choice of Ben-Stiller-directed films Film Society of Lincoln Centeris giving Stiller a retrospective of his films.
According to The Hollywood Reporter The Film Society will screen five Stiller-directed films from Dec. 6-8 in New York in a program called “Ben Stiller Directs”, it was announced Monday. Stiller will also attend screenings of Zoolander and his upcoming “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, which will get another advance screening in New York ahead of its Dec. 25 release.
The other films featured are Reality Bites, Tropic Thunder and his controversial Jim Carrey-starrer The Cable Guy.
IndieWire reported on a statement made by Dennis Lim, Film Society's director of Cinematheque Programming. “It goes without saying that Ben Stiller is one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, as well as a fearless performer with a gift for turning anxiety into comedy and back again,” Lim, said in the statement. “But what doesn’t get said often enough -- and what we wanted to acknowledge with this retrospective -- is that he has also long been an inventive, risk-taking filmmaker.”
Stiller will be in attendance for screenings of "Walter Mitty" and "Zoolander."