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...subject matter is heavy, but the characters can be so quirky and the narrator’s non-judgmental explanation of their lives so deadpan, that it’s a perfect blend between the seriousness of “Bedroom” and the satirical tone of Alexander Payne??s adaptation of another Perrotta novel, “Election.” Perotta’s book is obsessed with detail, fleshing out every facet of these twisted characters, and Field attempts the same in the film. Winslet masterfully tackles her challenging role, as she has most...
...Many people focus on the buildings of an epoch, but she is also interested in theory,” he said. “There are not so many [people] working on that, especially in Italian Renaissance architecture.” The Planck award not only honors Payne??s accomplishments but recognizes her for her potential, he added. The Max Planck Society selects two scholars each year for this award—one German and one not—with an eye toward the future, according to the society’s website. The society seeks a winner...
...things that make films like Sideways and Election so painful apply mostly to a very specific subset of viewers. Their nightmares are drawn directly from the mind of the neurotic, ham-handed male, and probably don’t seem nearly as nightmarish to others in the audience. (Indeed, Payne??s female characters in Sideways, at least, are little more than unmotivated archetypes, advancing the story of the male leads’ mortification.) Payne has a penchant for hanging his basket-case men upside down by their toenails, but it seems he knows what they?...
...Payne??s easy enthusiasm, his preaching of what he practices, is an oddity in a scene populated by dorky eccentrics who snicker at their own work even as they labor over it, Payne has at least one thing solidly in common with other indie auteurs: he loves...
...think part of the reason I was so bummed out by this movie (aside from perhaps unfairly high expectations based on Payne??s other work) is because I’m not part of its intended demographic, which I think is really the middle-aged people it’s about. Proof? When Maya asked Miles which wines he had in his collection, Miles replied, “It’s not really a collection. It’s actually more of a small group”—laughs went through the majority...