Yesterday the National Board of Review named Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air as the best film of the year. The film is also getting early buzz for Academy Award consideration. Good news for a film that is just opening today. This is first feature Reitman has directed since the success of Juno. Up in the Air is based on a book by Walter Kim and Reitman is co-credited on the script with Sheldon Turner and the project has been in development since 2002.
Reitman, who happens to be the son of Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, tackled smoking in his first feature film (Thank You for Smoking), then teen pregnacy in Juno, and now deals with corporate downsizing in Up in the Air. He’s the rare breed that knows how to get the laughs but also leave you thinking about deeper issues.
“If I could ask for anything with my movies, the rest of my career, it’s not that I be successful. There’ll be movies that are successful, and there’ll be movies that won’t. But I’d like to hold on to the idea that my movies are mirrors. They’re not going to tell you what to think but, rather, act like a mirror, so when you get to the end of the movie, you see yourself in it.”
Jason Reitman
Interview with Charlie McCollum
I’ve always credited Diablo Cody for starting this blog in January ’08 after seeing Juno (Juno Has Another Baby), but I must give a strong assist to Reitman for bringing that film to the big screen.
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