Alexander Payne

DVD FOCUS 'Paris, Je T'Aime' 2006 Alexander Payne contributed a seven-minute segment to this uneven celebration of the City of Light.

'Descendants' Has the Genes of a Classic Joe Morgenstern 2011

I thought Alexander Payne would win here, but if the voters wanted to award a complete body of work, Scorsese would be the clear choice.10.19pm: GONG!

Golden Globes 2012 – as it happened 2012

The DescendantsGeorge Clooney tries to keep it together in Alexander Payne's Hawaiian dramedy.

This week's new films 2012

Even though Alexander Payne's "The Descendants" is set in Hawaii, we get to see only one hula dancer—a little plastic doll, swinging her plastic-skirted hips atop the dashboard of a white Jeep.

'Descendants' Has the Genes of a Classic Joe Morgenstern 2011

An almost Kubrickian seven-year interval has passed since Alexander Payne unleashed Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church on central California's vineyards in Sideways, remaking both their careers and sealing his own reputation as one of the most mordant and beady-eyed, yet sympathetic and humane observers of that poor benighted subspecies, the Middle-Aged American Male.

Alexander Payne's The Descendants – not just for the kids, thankfully 2012

The Alexander Payne film "About Schmidt," as many may recall, is the 2002 film in which Jack Nicholson plays a retired and widowed Omaha actuary who hits the road in a motor home searching for a life he may have squandered.

IT TAKES TWO TO 'RANGO': Why the animated Depp hit is a very, very good film 2011

Come to think of it, even the auteurs in this iteration are pleasing crowds, to judge by Le Havre by Finnish master Aki Kaurismäki, and The Descendants from Alexander Payne about which more later.

Erica Abeel: Apocalypse: If Not Now, Maybe Next Week? Erica Abeel 2011

"The Descendants," starring George Clooney and directed by Alexander Payne, continued to show strong results in its narrow release in just 574 theaters.

'Twilight' Still Shines; NC-17 'Shame' Debuts Erica Orden 2011

Going slightly wide in 390 theaters was Alexander Payne's The Descendants review and essay.

Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: Breaking Dawn, Part I Tops Thanksgiving Weekend, Muppets Shines in Family Film Pile-up Scott Mendelson 2011

Alexander Payne 's "The Descendants," the director's first feature since his 2004 Oscar-winner "Sideways," will serve as the closing-night selection at the forthcoming New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center said on Wednesday.

New Payne Leads Full Festival Slate Matthew Oshinsky 2011