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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...