By Simon Miraudo February 20, 2014 Alexander Payne is back in prime, prickly form with Nebraska, a marked improvement over his soggy, false-feeling melodrama The Descendants. It gives screen legend Bruce Dern a more-than-welcome opportunity to shine as he nears the end of his storied career, and an even more welcome leading man part to […]
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Trailer Debut: Nebraska
September 19, 2013 
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Alexander Payne follows up Oscar winner The Descendants with the low-key, black-and-white road movie Nebraska. It stars Bruce Dern as a grumpy old man falsely convinced of a sweepstakes victory, and Will Forte as the son who joins him on his journey to collect the prize. Dern nabbed the Best Actor prize at Cannes earlier […]
Continue readingSoderbergh, Polanski, Payne, and the Coens compete at 66th Cannes Film Festival
April 19, 2013 0 Comments
Steven Soderbergh’s swan song will face off against the latest efforts by Roman Polanski, Asghar Farhadi, Nicolas Winding Refn, Alexander Payne, and the Coen brothers at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The lineup reveals which pictures will compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or, collected last year by Michael Haneke’s Amour. Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra […]
Continue readingAlexander Payne eyes Bruce Dern and Will Forte for Nebraska
May 16, 2012 0 Comments
Fresh from his Oscar-winning hit The Descendants, Alexander Payne is putting together the cast for his follow up, Nebraska. According to Deadline, Payne wants Bruce Dern and Will Forte (Saturday Night Live) to star as father and son in the black and white road movie. Budgeted at a measly $13 million, the script comes from Bob Nelson. It […]
Continue readingNo man is an island – The Descendants review
January 10, 2012 4 Comments
The Descendants – Starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley and Judy Greer. Directed by Alexander Payne. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. There might not be two filmmakers more diametrically opposed – but still operating in the same thematic wheelhouse – than Cameron Crowe and Alexander Payne. The former is warm and fuzzy; the latter is cold and […]
Continue readingMadonna bombs, Clooney rules and Fassbender and Mulligan go full frontal at Venice and Telluride
September 6, 2011 0 Comments
Madonna‘s first feature length film, W.E., made its world debut at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, where it was met with some of the most scathing reviews of the year. The flick stars Andrea Riseborough as King Edward’s wife Wallis Simpson – for whom he abdicated the throne – as well as Abbie Cornish in […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Descendants
May 26, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for The Descendants has debuted online. It is the first film in seven years from Oscar-winning writer/director Alexander Payne (unless you count his work as co-writer of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, which we don’t) and stars George Clooney as a man who must re-evaluate his life after his wife suffers […]
Continue readingPayne rumoured to bring Clowes comic to the screen
November 22, 2010 0 Comments
Fox Searchlight has acquired the film rights to Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel Wilson. According to Deadline, Alexander Payne is in talks to direct.Clowes is best known for the graphic novel Ghost World, which he helped adapt for the screen with director Terry Zwigoff in 2001. He also penned the less successful Art School Confidential, which […]
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