Matthew Lillard discusses his audition for the film, The Descendants. His audition for the role appearing opposite George ...

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.

The Venice competition jury will include Fernanda Torres, Mohammad Rasoulof, Cristian Mungiu and more alongside president ...

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

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 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.

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 ...

As Alexander Payne’s longtime editor, Kevin Tent is one of the very first people to see footage of each film. When he watched the first round of dailies come in from the Massachusetts set of The ...

Alexander Payne calls editor Kevin Tent his filmmaking partner. The two first met running in the same L.A. film school circles. Tent cut “Citizen Ruth,” Payne’s feature directorial debut, ...

Filmmaker Alexander Payne has denied sexual abuse allegations made by actress Rose McGowan. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) Actress Rose McGowan, a prominent voice in the Harvey Weinstein ...

Payne's next project will reimagine the culinary wonders of the 1987 Danish Oscar winner, but set in small-town America. Alexander Payne Lines Up 'Babette's Feast' Remake ...

Rose McGowan has claimed that Alexander Payne exhibited sexually inappropriate behavior towards her when she was 15 and he was in his twenties Oscar-winning writer and director Alexander Payne has ...