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Poor Alexander Payne has to do even more press interviews to mark "The Descendants" getting released on DVD

An interview with the Descendant's director about how he wants to film a story about a father-son road trip across the state.

When bad days happen it's up to the director to right a sinking ship. A video of several well-known directors talking about what they do.

When director Alexander Payne agreed to introduce Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped at last year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival, he talked about his lifelong passion, and his love of silent film. The speech is great and is reprinted here in @indiewire

Alexander Payne muse Shailene Woodley ("The Descendants") freely admits that she didn't find "Sideways" funny in the least

A group of prominent directors got together and talked about how nerve-racking it can be to start a new film, and how they deal with it.

A good 1,800+ word profile of Alexander Payne covering his directing career and just about everything else

Charlie Rose returns from the furry convention uptown in time to chat with Alexander Payne about "The Descendants"

Alexander Payne laughs and skips along with Terry Gross of @nprfreshair in a discussion on "The Descendants"

As you might guess from the glowing reviews, Payne pulled everything off in The Descendants marvelously. Here @cinemablend talks to him about what it took to pull that off, from the long period he and his co-writer Jim Taylor spent working on this and other projects after Sideways, his commitment to shooting real locations for what they are, casting Clooney, and how The Descendants might hopefully prove that there's still room for a national cinema about grown-ups