For Payne, “The Holdovers” began even further in the past, with the 1935 French film “Merlusse.” Written and directed by Marcel Pagnol, it also told the story of a teacher tending to ...

Alexander Payne poses for a portrait in New York, N.Y., on Oct. 9, 2023. (Frankie Alduino / For The Times) By Kenneth Turan. Oct. 26, 2023 3 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options.

Nebraska director Alexander Payne will receive the Pardo d’Onore at the Locarno Film Festival. The American filmmaker will be presented with the honorary leopard on Friday, August 15. He will also ...

Back in 2004, during a press tour for Sideways — Alexander Payne’s wine-soaked buddy movie starring Paul Giamatti as a depressive divorcé — the filmmaker and the actor were in Omaha in ...

Alexander Payne’s career of quietly incisive, off-kilter human comedies has rarely met a tonal match quite so perfect as actor Paul Giamatti. The Oscar-nominated actor so memorably captured the ...

Alexander Payne’s jaunt to the past, with Paul Giamatti playing a curmudgeonly instructor at a 1970s boarding school, is crackling with pungent life. Skip to content Skip to site index.

While Payne grew up in Nebraska, filming his newest movie in Massachusetts led him to fall in love with Bostonians. "I began to call them Eastern Midwesterners,” he said.

NEW YORK (AP) — There are rituals to an Alexander Payne movie. In post-production, he and his longtime editor, Kevin Tent, will gather collaborators for Tie Day Tuesday (women can wear a tie or ...

Alexander Payne‘s next film has been acquired by Searchlight Pictures for worldwide release, and it’s the first film Payne will shoot in Europe and in another language.. Payne’s next feature ...

Middleburg, Va. — Alexander Payne is speculating on how he’s gotten away with making the movies he wanted to make — literate, human comedy-dramas — for the past 27 years, during which ...

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