Join us for the Spotlight Tribute program, including an interview with Jason Reitman, screening of Up in the Air and presentation of the MVFF award. Following the film, join us for a unique reception experience with regional Italian cuisine, house-made pastas, wood-fired pizzas and mesquite-grilled meats at Piatti Ristorante & Bar. Wines provided by Thumbprint Cellars.

Up in the Air: From Jason Reitman, the Oscar® nominated director of Juno, comes a dramatic comedy called Up in the Air starring Oscar® winner George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams. US Premiere.

Jason Reitman
Possessing a rare knack for combining tomfoolery, crackling wit and a penchant for intelligent humor, 31-year-old Jason Reitman has already established himself as one of Hollywood’s most original—and sought after—talents. His preternatural abilities can be partially traced to growing up around movies. He arrived on the set of Animal House 11 days out of the womb, and by age 13 had landed a production assistant job on father Ivan Reitman’s Kindergarten Cop. Too much of a movie maverick to follow cleanly in his dad’s footsteps, Reitman chose to eschew the studio system and pursue a ruggedly independent cinematic vision. Immediately making a splash with his uproarious and cheeky comedy of manners, Thank You For Smoking, the politically dead-wrong director took on the tobacco industry while skewering the ninny liberals who oppose it, too. His follow-up effort, Juno, earned him a Best Director Oscar® nomination, and tread similarly sacrosanct ground in treating pregnancy and abortion with a refreshingly honest, playful and irreverent approach. Cementing his reputation as shrewdly insightful entertainer, Reitman teams up with George Clooney in his latest, Up in the Air, to examine a corporate axman’s paradoxical search for human connection in an increasingly transient world. –Ilya Tovbis

Total Program: 144 Minutes

Running time: 104
Country: US
Category: US Cinema
Directed by: Jason Reitman
Producers: Daniel Dubiecki, Jeffrey Clifford, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman
Screenwriter: Jason Reitman, novel by Walter Kirn
Cinematographer: Eric Steelberg
Editor: Dana Glauberman
Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kedrick, Jason Bateman

Ticket Codes:
     SPOT14P - Spotlight and Reception
     SPOT14R - Spotlight Only

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