Ivan Reitman: A Statement of Purpose

In my quest to discover cinema, bouncing from one director to another, I decided to follow up Roger Corman (and my brief interlude with Sergei Eisenstein) with someone I felt would be a marked departure. And I settled on Ivan Reitman.

Reitman is not one often equates with the word auteur (for the uninitiated, I actually hate the term and how its used in discussing movies which ends up more about gatekeeping than discussion), but like John Landis he has movies with indelible impacts on Ame...