Jason's Reitman's movie recommendations for April | Director Picks

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[azohundred]

Double Indemnity, a perfect Film Noir. Great pick! Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, and Edward G. Robinson all give tour de force performances.

[stoogefest]

Diner is so unsung these days. It’s great to see TCM breathing new life into it and expanding its audience by airing it multiple times over the past year.

I think what makes the film unique is that it’s a mid-life coming of age feature: the men are a bunch of overgrown boys who cling to their youth and forestall the onset of maturity both by frequenting their old stomping grounds and by neglecting to address some of the harsher truths of their lives, whether it’s marrying too young, day drinking, habitual gambling, infidelity or blurring the fine line between friendship and romance.

Its dialogue-centered dynamics and pacing could also be considered a precursor to Seinfeld, early Tarantino features, and even a good deal of Richard Linklater’s early output, namely in terms of how the characters seemingly inconsequential bantering and bickering about subjects of a tangential nature in fact reveal most of what you need to know about their personalities and inner lives.

[brandothecatmeow]

I agree with him totally about Double Indemnity. The language is perfection. The banter, the first time you see Stanwyck, everything!!

[markodjuric]

Reitman's Up in the Air is a modern day Apartment! Great director and great picks for april

[KohalaLover]

Double Indemnity was badass. Excellent cast, directing, writing, and lighting. 🎥

[frankcross]

diner & lenny are both underrated classics

[brianvail]

I like the original Bad News Bears, but I actually enjoy the 1st sequel, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Bears, even better. It's pure 1970s quiche.

[pfelon]

Reitman is a damn good director in his own right. Great picks.

[bOmBAsTiK]

Bob Fosse is very much one of the great choreographers of all-time, but also one of the greatest FILM DIRECTORS just like Billy Wilder, Michael Schultz, Harold Ramis, Hitchcock and the rest. Please stop overlooking that...

[irish]

The movie and Wilder should have been given Academy awards, But Going my way and it;s director got them. I think it's a fine movie, but it is not in the same class as Double Indemnity. One of Hollywood's greatest mistakes.

[drumbum.]

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