Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival will debut 17 features, including new works by Radu Jude and Abdellatif Kechiche, as part ...

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 ...

“The Holdovers,” the new comedy-drama directed by Alexander Payne, is not just a movie that takes place in the early 1970s. From its earliest moments — the retro-style title cards for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

After a career wobble, director Alexander Payne rebounds, ready to play the long game Alexander Payne poses for a portrait in New York, N.Y., on Oct. 9, 2023.

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 ...

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.

'The Holdovers' director Alexander Payne goes back to school with Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and newcomer Dominic Sessa for a winter's tale ...

Alexander Payne is one of the great filmmakers of our time and has directed several modern classics, including Election, Sideways, and recent favorite The Holdovers.