Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Movie Crush. I'm Chuck Bryant. I'll be your host today.

Oh, you don't want to be me. No. Everyone, we are at Ponce City Market, the home studio, and that is my

lovely wife, who you know by voice by now, I would imagine. Right? Sure. Yeah. And it is morning.

It is 9.55 a.m. There is no wine being poured right now. There's no wine being poured, but we drank wine

last night while you watched the movie, I had a little bit too much, probably one glass too much.

And I'm a little... That would explain some events of the morning.

Man, you asshole. I'm just saying, from the critique. So I'm a little foggy, but I haven't started drinking my latte yet.

But we're here to do the filmmaker series as promised for a while now, and we're going with Alexander Payne.

Favorite favorite favorite filmmaker. Delight. To me, he's in the 100% club.

National treasure for sure. I think you're 95%. Like you didn't love about Schmidt, right?

No, I didn't. I mean, I didn't madly love it now, but I liked it a lot. I mean...

I have to see 100% club for you. Yeah, totally.

We even liked downsizing. I loved downsizing. I thought the people who didn't like it just didn't get it.

So I totally agree. So we decided to start with sideways just because we're going to jump around in sideways.

I mean, it's hard to pick a favorite, but for better or for worse, because of how much we love wine and what it means to us.

Well, I'm living in California. Yeah, it's all there. Yeah.

It's right up our alley, our collective alley. So that's what we started with everyone.

What? No. I was stretching.

You held your arms up as if to say, I'm about to talk. No, I was stretching my wrists.

Okay. Sonata pose. All right. So should we talk about Alexander Payne for a minute?

Sure. Did we see Citizen Ruthis' first film or did we start with election and go backward?

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