{"id":13270,"date":"2011-10-22T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T13:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2011-10-22T16:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T15:13:44","slug":"alexander-payne-2005-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/10\/22\/alexander-payne-2005-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Payne 2005 Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fw8oNps1qQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13272\" title=\"Alexander Payne - 2005 interview in Minneapolis with Kenneth Turan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Alexander-Payne-2005-interview-in-Minneapolis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2005 director <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Payne\">Alexander Payne<\/a> sat down for a long form interview about his career.<\/p>\n<p>His latest film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1033575\/\">The Descendants<\/a> was one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/10\/21\/the-descendants-reviews-lff\/\">the highlights of the London Film Festival for me<\/a> and is likely to be a major awards contender.<\/p>\n<p>This talk was held at the <a href=\"http:\/\/walkerart.org\/\">Walker Art Center<\/a> in Minneapolis after the success of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0375063\/\">Sideways<\/a>, which had been one of the the most acclaimed films of the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3fw8oNps1qQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hosted by LA Times &#038; NPR film critic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/people\/2101621\/kenneth-turan\">Kenneth Turan<\/a>, the conversation goes pretty deep into his career as they cover various aspects of his life and work, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His Nebraska background<\/li>\n<li>Film school<\/li>\n<li>His early love of Kurosawa films, silent cinema and the New Hollywood era of the 1970s<\/li>\n<li>Getting in to the film idustry<\/li>\n<li>Using non-professional actors<\/li>\n<li>Why he likes adapting novels<\/li>\n<li>The original ending of Election<\/li>\n<li>Adapting About Schmidt and working with Jack Nicholson<\/li>\n<li>Why he loves voiceover<\/li>\n<li>Shooting physical comedy<\/li>\n<li>Sideways and the idea of personal cinema<\/li>\n<li>The importance of casting<\/li>\n<li>Pros and cons of modern filmmaking technology<\/li>\n<li>Women audiences and Sideways<\/li>\n<li>The influence of silent Italian comedy and Hal Ashby on Sideways<\/li>\n<li>Using success to get the next film made<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fans of his work will find much to chew on here and for aspiring filmmakers it provides interesting insights into one of the best American directors currently working.<\/p>\n<p>> Alexander Payne at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0668247\/\">IMDb<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Payne\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/cast_members\/15805\">MUBi<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkerart.org\/\">Walker Art Center<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/walkerartcenter\">YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2005 director Alexander Payne sat down for a long form interview about his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,16],"tags":[2282,2061,2283,2284,2281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}