Our DVD this month is The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. This was the title of a story that the comic writer James Thurber first published in The New Yorker in 1939. It was then made into a film starring Danny Kaye in 1947. This latest version is a 2013 remake stars Ben Stiller (who also directs), and co-stars Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine and Sean Penn. Walter Mitty is essentially a loser, but in his frequent daydreams he’s a super hero...
(Speak Up + DVD is available at newsstands. Price: € 17.90)
A ottobre con Speak Up: Hitchcock.