Stellan Skarsgård will receive the Heart of Sarajevo award at the Sarajevo Film Festival in August. A longtime friend of the ...

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.

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

Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera is set to unveil the lineup for the event’s upcoming 82nd edition, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” and Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” are heading to the Lido for their world premieres at the 82nd ...

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 ...

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

NEW YORK – 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 ...