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 ...

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 ...

Fernanda Torres, Mohammad Rasoulof, Zhao Tao, Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero and Cristian Mungiu will be joining Alexander ...

Alexander Payne likens Downsizing to Black Mirror: It's a 'prism' for our times. From mother! to Breathe, these fall festival films could shift the Oscar race.

The full international juries roster for this year’s Venice Film Festival has been unveiled. The director-heavy lineup ...

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.

Alexander Payne's 1996 movie Citizen Ruth, starring Laura Dern and Burt Reynolds, pokes fun at the absurdity of politics. Payne's film satirizes the theatricality of American political debate.

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 ...

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 ...

Read: Exclusive Excerpt From 'Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film,' A Book That Goes Behind-the-Scenes With the Oscar-Winning Auteur ...

Alexander Payne is denying Rose McGowan's accusations of sexual assault. In a column for Deadline published Friday, Payne lauded McGowan's "commitment to activism and her voice in an important, ...

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