Where Are the Wild Things? Skateboarding with Spike Jonze  Lance
Mountain, Spike Jonze, and Mark Gonzales. Photograph by Fred
Benenson.  Ten years ago, following the release of the
critically acclaimed, quirky comedy Being John Malkovich, New
York City's Museum of Modern Art approached the film's director,
Spike Jonze, about doing a retrospective at the museum. Shocked,
Jonze rejected MoMA’s offer, saying that he had only had one
feature film, surely not enough of a career to warrant an
exhibition. Now Jonze has given in, and this Sunday, MoMA wraps
up its two-week Filmmaker in Focus series “Spike Jonze: The
First 80 Years.” (He’s 39). Last night, on the eve of one of the
most anticipated movies of the year, Where the Wild Things Are,
which Jonze co-wrote and directed, the filmmaker celebrated his
retrospective with a screening of skateboarding videos from the
1980s to the present, and a question-and-answer session with
skate-industry legends Lance Mountain, Jake Phelps, Greg Hunt,
Ty Evans, Ed Templeton, and