Alexander Payne
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Grimy drama is based on acclaimed graphic novel by the doyen of the American independent comics scene and creator of Ghost World, who takes over from Alexander Payne
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The Oscar-winning writer/director is aiming to tell the story of a four-time winner
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The long-gestating social satire will reunite Witherspoon with the director for the first time since their 1999 comedy Election
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The actor is to star in director’s long-gestating social satire about a down-on-his luck man who decides to shrink himself
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Colour version of the comedy-drama was made on sufferance by director, who said he hoped nobody would ever see it
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As the film industry great and good assembles for the first big awards ceremony of the year, we make our predictions as to who will be going home happy on Sunday night
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Hard-hitting slavery drama and rambunctious crime caper face off with seven nominations each as the awards season gets into gear
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Bruce Dern is at the top of his game in Alexander Payne's road movie about a father and son's quest for riches, writes Mark Kermode
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Henry Barnes, Peter Bradshaw and Andrew Pulver review Nebraska, Kill Your Darlings, This Ain't California and Oldboy
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About Schmidt's Alexander Payne takes us on another unsentimental road journey about male disappointment, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Alexander Payne's new movie, starring Bruce Dern and Will Forte, is both a touching father-and-son journey and a penetrating look at a nation's desperate, empty soul, says David Vann
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The Saturday Night Live star talks to Killian Fox about the pleasures and challenges of working on Alexander Payne's Nebraska
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The American Midwest's spare, glum beauty is conjured in Alexander Payne's lugubrious road comedy, writes Jonathan Romney
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The veteran actor may not be sure where Bristol is, but he does recall racing a shepherd through the Lake District and being Alfred Hitchcock's 'golden calf'
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US director to follow Nebraska with The Judge's Will, by late Merchant Ivory scriptwriter
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Our regular series reaches Alexander Payne's bittersweet black and white road movie, Nebraska
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The first trailer and poster for Alexander Payne's Cannes hit about a father/son roadtrip have just been released. Let us know what you make of them
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Watch a taster of Bruce Dern's award-winning performance in Alexander Payne's bittersweet black-and-white road movie
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The past two years has seen a resurgence in black-and-white movies, from Oscar-winner The Artist to the forthcoming A Field in England. Killian Fox finds out why
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Abdellatif Kechiche's epic and explicit love story beats the Coen brothers into second place, while Bruce Dern wins out over Michael Douglas for best actor and Amat Escalante surprise victor for best director
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Four films from directors who have consistently gone against Hollywood's grain premiered at the festival last week, a sign that the outsider can still thrive in cinema
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Nicolas Winding Refn's tense, brutal thriller? Sorrentino's beguiling look at fading beauty? Soderbergh's Liberace biopic? Any one of them could win the big prize, writes Tom Lamont
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Alexander Payne's follow-up to The Descendants is a low-fi, black-and-white road-trip that premiered in competition at Cannes. The director talks to Andrew Pulver about his respect for adult dramas from the 1970s and how he wove personal experience into the script. Star Bruce Dern discusses the joys of playing a character who wasn't just trying to blow up the Super Bowl
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Shot in black and white, Alexander Payne's new movie is a melancholic, gentle road movie
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West End play raises a glass to Sideways, after it shone a spotlight on pinot noir