Alexander Payne on What’s Wrong With Modern Films: ‘Cut, Cut. I Get It. Cut.’

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,” he says, referring to the festival’s retrospective Great Expectations. “I couldn’t be less interested in the new films. I’m only interested in […]