Alexander Payne

  • Interviews

With The Holdovers, Alexander Payne Gets to Make His 1970s Movie

Director Alexander Payne doesn’t just set his new movie in the 1970s — he tried to make The Holdovers exactly…

6 months ago
  • Movie News

Paul Giamatti Is a Lovable Curmudgeon in The Holdovers Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhKLpJmHhIg Paul Giamatti plays a curmudgeonly, tough-on-the-outside but soft-on-the-inside professor who gets stuck spending Christmas break with prep school students…

10 months ago
  • Movie News

Ted Lasso: Zach Braff Tells Us the Directing Advice He Got From Alexander Payne (Video)

Zach Braff has a lot of experience with single-camera comedies. But before he directed the second episode of Apple TV+'s…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

“Someone to Last Your Whole Life”: James Ivory on Celebrating Maurice Over 30 Years Later

Hot off of his Academy Award win for Best Adapted Screenplay, James Ivory's 1987 follow-up to A Room with a…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

“Trimming the Fat”: A Slimmer TIFF 2017 Lineup Still Offers a Robust Selection of Quality Programming

This year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) chose to cut the number of films it opted to include in…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Three’s Company: A Busy Weekend Of L.A. Film Fests Highlights The City’s Multiculturalism and Fierce Independence

Repertoire theaters, star-studded evenings, plenty of multiplexes and art houses theaters, as well as a never-ending stream of festivals make…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Gay Characters Don’t Need to Hook Up Just Because They’re Gay, Handsome Devil Points Out

John Butler is the director of the sports comedy Handsome Devil. In this piece he discusses why two of his…

7 years ago
  • First Draft

First Draft: Tap Into Rhythm, Rhetoric and Other Dynamics of Dialogue

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Good dialogue strikes a nerve,…

7 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned: Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne's bittersweet take on humanity's foibles have etched their way to the center of our idea of modern America--the…

10 years ago
  • blog-test

New York Film Critics Series Launches Tomorrow Nation-wide: with a Special Discount for MovieMaker Readers

The New York Film Critics Series is launching a brand new in-theater series featuring previews of major films screened simultaneously…

10 years ago