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	<title>Screen Machine &#187; Up in the Air</title>
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	<description>Long live the new flesh</description>
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I was at the Telluride Film Festival back in September, when Up in the Air had its premiere there (as often happens, the film had its first public screening at Telluride, shortly before its &#8220;official&#8221; premiere at Toronto). I didn&#8217;t see it then, but the people I knew who did were very enthusiastic, speaking not at all about its relationship to director Jason Reitman&#8217;s previous hit film, Juno, but all about the film as a statement on the economic crisis that was affecting so many Americans at that time, as it continues to do.
Telluride is a funny town. Located in a staggeringly beautiful area of mountainous Colorado, today a great part of the land around it is owned by Ralph Lauren; houses in Telluride sell for millions of dollars. A lot of young people live there, mostly college graduates who&#8217;ve come in from elsewhere to work for a year or so. One of the people I stayed with, who lived in a nice, big house with a group of twentysomethings, was working as a labourer during the days, and spent a lot of time hiking, cooking very healthy food and reading books about environmentalism and financial catastrophe; it was from him that I first heard the enthusiastic word about Up in the Air and its incisive view on the contemporary economic climate.
Seeing Up in the Air now, we can see what exactly it has to say or to show us about the economic depression and massive job losses in the&#8230;]]></description>
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