Jason Reitman Is Not Here to Make a Blockbuster | The Big Picture (Ep. 63)
The Big Picture
The Ringer
4.2 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Clearly, I'm not going after box office. |
| 0:02.7 | Like, this is not my daily objective. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm telling personal stories and I'm telling them, |
| 0:08.4 | trying to tell them at a time when people generally don't want to finance these movies. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Sean Fennes, the editor and chief of the ringer, |
| 0:20.2 | and this is the big picture, |
| 0:21.7 | a conversation show with the most interesting filmmakers in the world. |
| 0:25.3 | Today's guest has made seven films and experienced |
| 0:28.0 | several phases of a director's life, and he's barely even 40. |
| 0:31.4 | He's been a film festival hot shot, |
| 0:33.3 | the creator of a cultural phenomenon, |
| 0:35.6 | an academy award nominee, and a critical target. |
| 0:38.8 | It's Jason Reitman, who's best known for directing Juno, |
| 0:41.6 | Up in the Air, and thank you for smoking, |
| 0:43.4 | in a wonderkin' burst at the beginning of his career. |
| 0:45.8 | Reitman has not had a movie in theaters since 2014, |
| 0:47.9 | but his new one, Tully, is a reunion of sorts |
| 0:50.6 | with the screenwriter and creative partner Diablo Cody, |
| 0:53.1 | and Charlie Starrin, with whom the duo made the underrated |
| 0:55.7 | young adult in 2011. |
| 0:57.6 | Tully is a striking comedy with a puzzle at its center, |
| 1:00.3 | focused on Theran's character Marlow, |
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