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Fade to Black: Alexander Payne, Director

“I really wanted a '70s movie,” says Alexander Payne, director of Election and About Schmidt, about his latest film of men emotionally adrift in America, Sideways. “I love the soft feeling of the colors of early '70s movies. But film stocks now are different, and lenses are different, and everything is so sharp and contrasty and fine-grained. Somehow you lose those lovely — and for me they're very human — pastels that I associate with those movies of the '70s.” Think Hal Ashby. Sideways is the painful and funny sojourn of two old friends ...

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