After awarding this year’s Golden Lion for best film to Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother,” Venice Film Festival jury president Alexander Payne faced a flurry of questions from journalists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The Voice of Hind Rajab" (Photo courtesy of Venice Film Festival) Venice Film Festival jury president Alexander Payne responded ...

Two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne’s third picture with Searchlight, the Danish comedy-drama Somewhere Out There, has set its cast with Jacob Haugaard (The jut-nuts), Jacob Lohmann (Dynastiet Mærsk ...

Alexander Payne is at the Locarno Film Festival to receive the Pardo d'Onore, but what he really wants to do is watch old movies. "This university course on post-war British cinema is unbelievable," ...

In his first press conference, the jury president offered diplomatically, “My political views, I’m sure, are the same as many of yours. I have to think about that for a while to give you a measured ...

If Bob Nelson’s screenplay had been called Iowa, Alexander Payne would have never made Nebraska. “It found its way exclusively to me, because of the title,” said the Omaha-born director before a ...

At Wednesday’s opening press conference for this year’s Venice Film Festival, jury president Alexander Payne declined to answer a question about his personal stance on the crisis in Gaza, saying he ...

I showed Alexander Payne's 1999 film "Election" to my LifeQuest class without going back and reading my original review of the film. I didn't want to influence myself before talking about it. After I ...

Jack Nicholson, right, plays Warren Schmidt, a Nebraska retiree in Alexander Payne's "About Schmidt." Actress Kathy Bates is at left. SHERITHA JONES Film director Alexander Payne returned home to ...

US director Alexander Payne will have the honour of chairing the international competition jury at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival (27 August-6 September). Payne, the man behind such films ...

Venice Film Festival jury president Alexander Payne responded to backlash on Saturday after Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” was awarded the festival’s Golden Lion over Kaouther Ben Hania ...