Jason Reitman

Jason Reitman Directed an All-Female Glengarry Glen Ross Reading at LACMA Last Night

When former New York Times (and ex-LA Weekly) movie critic Elvis Mitchell took over LACMA's film curatorship two years ago -- with Film Independent, which runs the L.A. Film Festival and the Spirit Awards -- he announced his intention to raise the profile of LACMA's Bing Theater and fill it with tha ... More >>

Jason Reitman's Live Read

LACMA Goes Hollywood With Elvis Mitchell

Museum scrapped its film program for a star-studded partnership aimed at courting showbiz bucks — helmed by the nation's most controversial critic

Reitman Does Hughes

The Company Men: Men Without Balls

Ben Affleck, emasculated by the economic crisis

Need More Bandwidth? Marvell Introduces AVANTA, Actor Adrian Grenier and Director Jason Reitman Go High-Speed

Henie Reisinger "Speed and efficiency connects us so we can fly like birds," said Grenier.​ Just when technologically induced real-time ADHD seemed like it couldn't get any more out of control, Tinseltown revealed the next level of broadband innovation (because let's face it, celebrities get ... More >>

Pulp Fiction: Aaron Katz's Cold Weather

​ The first unqualified hit of 2010 SXSW Film Festival premiered last night to a packed crowd (including recent Oscar snubbee Jason Reitman) at Austin's Alamo Ritz. Cold Weather, directed by two-time SXSW alum Aaron Katz (his Dance Party USA and Quiet City premiered here in 2006 and 2007, and ... More >>

Up in the Hair: Reitman Blows Off the BAFTAs to Guest Program the New Beverly

Nicole CamposReitman​Writer-director -- and recent LA Weekly guest blogger -- Jason Reitman is in the midst of a banner awards season, his much-lauded George Clooney-starrer Up in the Air having raked in a truckload of nominations and snared more than one win, in particular for his screenplay ... More >>

Panic, Despair and Revolution

Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose

Jason Reitman's Concert Highlights: David Crosby's Live Gig at Rob Lowe's House (And More)

Editor's note: This week director Jason Reitman is guest blogging at West Coast Sound. Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, was nominated for six Golden Globes earlier in the week (including Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for Reitman ... congrats!), is also a pretty big music head, ... More >>

Guest Blogger Jason Reitman IDs Some of His Favorite Cover Songs

Editor's note. This week director Jason Reitman is guest blogging at West Coast Sound. Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, was nominated for six Golden Globes yesterday (including Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for Reitman ... congrats!), is also a pretty big music head, as you'll ... More >>

Guest Blogger Jason Reitman on 14 Perfect Musical Moments

​Editor's note. This week director Jason Reitman is guest blogging at West Coast Sound. Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, was nominated for five Golden Globes this morning (including Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for Reitman ... congrats!), is also a pretty big music head ... More >>

Guest Blogger Jason Reitman Talks Early Soundtrack Influences

Editor's note: West Coast Sound is thrilled to introduce to our blogging world the director Jason Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, has just opened in Los Angeles and New York, and opens across the country on December 25. The movie stars George Clooney and Vera Farmiga, it's true, but like his ... More >>

UP IN THE AIR WITH VERA FARMIGA

She's more than George Clooney with a vagina.

Up in the Air: Open Skies

Juno director's latest steers clear of the predictable route

Grounded: Jason Reitman

Up in the Air director has a good sense of where he's from and where he's headed

AFI Fest 2009: What if Movies Were Free?

A changing film world — and hard times — means comp tickets

Juno Director Jason Reitman Takes to the Decks as Bad Meaning Bad

Shannon CottrellBad Meaning Bad​ It's easy to become a cynical dance floor junkie in Los Angeles, especially after the celebrity DJ invasion a few years back, where an army of musicians, actors, etc. took over booths to either have the club resident ghost DJ for them or commit horrifying acts ... More >>

Over the Weekend: DJ AM Dies, L.A. Fire Rages, Fight Breaks Out at the Echo and More

There was definitely something in the air this weekend in Los Angeles, and it wasn't just ash and smoke. There was a restlessness only further provoked by the heat, raging fire and a week of high profile deaths that began with the loss of Ted Kennedy and Dominick Dunne and ended with that of Adam "D ... More >>

Grammy Week: Magical Music Moments All Over Town

Katy Perry Unpeeled — and Other Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys PressRoom

Including the buzz over Rihanna and Chris Brown, and revelations from Natalie Cole on heroin addiction

Behind the Scenes at the Grammys: In the Press Room, A Quiet Night Jolted Alive by Chris Brown/Rihanna Allegations

When you tell an outsider that you're "covering the Grammys," it sounds pretty swank. Before I did it for the first time, I imagined glamor, some rubbing shoulders, and, above all, a lot of music. But the reality is different. Those of us not covering the red carpet are planted in a hotel-confere ... More >>

Mondo Diablo @ the New Beverly!

The righteous revivals continue at the New Beverly Cinema starting tonight, with another guest-curator series; July's celebrity programmer is Academy Award-winning screenwriter, EW columnist and leopard-print luvvah Diablo Cody, who serves up a varied cross-section of flickage for the next two weeks ... More >>

KCRW Launches New Guest DJ Sessions featuring Conan O'Brien, Jason Reitman and others

Everybody has an opinion about music, especially celebrities, and KCRW is harnessing this intrinsic reality with a new online series which launches today called the Guest DJ Project. Each week, a member of KCRW's on-air staff interviews a person of note, and broadcasts the results, which so far has ... More >>

Juno: Knocked-up Knockout

Ellen Page puts a shine on teen pregnancy

Huffing and Puffing

Thank You For Smoking lights up the doctors of spin