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 ...

For Alexander Payne, ‘The Holdovers’ is not just a period film; it’s a 1970s time warp “I’ve been trying to make ‘70s movies my whole career.

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 ...

Cannes 2013: Alexander Payne's 'Nebraska' is very minor Payne (but still a pleasure). Plus, my Palme d'Or prediction 'The Artist' wins big at the Directors Guild Awards Toronto: 'The Descendants ...

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 ...

Middleburg, Va. — Alexander Payne is speculating on how he’s gotten away with making the movies he wanted to make — literate, human comedy-dramas — for the past 27 years, during which ...

The book’s title, “Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film,” speaks to him assiduously refining and expressing a particular cinema sensibility and to still being in the prime of his career.

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 ...

Payne's latest, the acclaimed “The Holdovers,” started, years ago, with an old film. The 62-year-old, Omaha, Nebraska-based director caught a restoration of the 1935 French comedy “Merlusse." ...

Alexander Payne told UNL graduates on Saturday that his parents pushed him to become a lawyer. He became an Oscar-winning filmmaker instead. MATT DIXON/THE WORLD-HERALD ...

Director Alexander Payne poses for a portrait to promote the film "The Holdovers" on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP) Gift this article ...