Alexander Payne

Talking Pictures

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Tv & Film

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Director Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways, About Schmidt) talks about the inspiration for his new film The Holdovers, what it’s like working with actors Paul Giamatti and George Clooney, and addresses the rumors of an Election sequel. He also shares the movie forever associated with one of his more awkward teenage dates. Plus, terrific answers to the Super 8! Films Mentioned: Election* Sideways About Schmidt Nebraska The Holdovers Paper Moon* Citizen Ruth Seconds Something's Gotta Give The Descendants The Passion of Martin Inspector Gadget Citizen Kane* Downsizing Meet The Parents Jurassic Park 3 Pokemon Detective Pikachu Modern Times* Viridiana Seven Samurai* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Annie Hall Manhattan Taxi Driver A Special Day City Lights* Bicycle Thieves* Ikiru Red Beard* Dersu Uzala The Best Years of Our Lives The Unknown Known Cinema Paradiso Gone With the Wind* Doctor Zhivago Casablanca* The Garden of the Finzi Contini The Two of Us The Wolf of Wall Street Out of the Past The Friends of Eddie Coyle *Available on Max as of 2/20 (Availability of titles subject to change) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, if you want to be a filmmaker, that's great.
0:02.1	But it's not a job selection.
0:05.9	It's a lifestyle choice.
0:07.2	And one of the aspects of that lifestyle is making friends with despair.
0:11.5	Because there's a lot of despair in filmmaking.
0:16.0	Here are some things I know about writer, producer, director, Alexander Payne.
0:22.9	He directed his first feature in 1995, so he's been battling despair for quite a while. He's interested in simple human stories.
0:32.5	That's to say, stories about us, about people. I'm not sure there's another director working today
0:39.3	whose characters are as lived in,
0:42.2	as closely observed, as Alexander Paines.
0:48.5	Consider the protagonist of election, Tracy Flick,
0:52.0	played by Reese Witherspoon,
0:53.9	or Paul Giamatti's character
0:55.5	Miles and Sideways, Jack Nicholson's Warren Schmidt in About Schmidt, or Bruce Dern as
1:02.6	Woody Grant in the glorious black-and-white family drama, Nebraska. Payne's latest movie is The Holdovers,
1:13.8	again, starring Paul Giamatti. He's Paul Hunman, a classics teacher at a New England boarding school.
1:18.3	He's strict, follows the rules, seemingly, no matter the circumstances.
1:23.6	Hunman gets stuck supervising the few students who can't go home over the Christmas holidays.
1:29.6	Divine Joy Randolph plays the head chef at the school.
1:33.7	Newcomer Dominic Sessa is one of the unfortunate students whose parents didn't come get him for the break.
1:40.9	Do you think I want to be babysitting you?
1:43.2	Oh, no, no, I was praying to the God I don't even
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