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Posted January 22, 2010 to photo album "Ben Stiller: From Slapstick to Satire"
For Ben Stiller, Greenberg is only the last in a parade of remarkable characters. Click through his slide show.
Slide 5: Permanent Midnight (1998)
In Permanent Midnight, Stiller captures the dark underside of the comic persona in his portrayal of real-life TV writer and heroin addict Jerry Stahl. The manic energy that Stiller might have turned into a slapstick routine or comic patter is now transformed into an all-consuming drug addiction. Roger Ebert observed, “What Ben Stiller brings to the role is a kind of savage impatience. His character stabs his body anywhere with the needle--even in the neck--because the niceties are no longer of interest to a man who simply needs to get the stuff into his veins right away.”
The World's End
We Steal Secrets
Closed Circuit
The Deep
The Place Beyond The Pines
Greetings from Tim Buckley
Admission
Promised Land
Anna Karenina
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
Lost in Translation
Pride & Prejudice
The Pianist
Gosford Park