12 | September | 2011 | Leo Adam Biga's My Inside Stories

Look for My Reader (www.thereader.com) Story on Alexander Payne’s ‘The Descendants’ coming soon to this blog

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Check back mid-week for my inteview with Alexander Payne about his new film ‘The Descendants‘ and the warm reception it’s getting

As some of you may know by now, I’ve been covering Alexander Payne for 15 years, completing dozens of interviews with him over that time and being accorded unprecedented access to his creative process. Keep that in mind as news continues to break about his new film because you will be able to find things here and at http://www.thereader.com that you won’t be able to find anywhere else.

This week I will be posting my Reader (www.thereader.com) story about Alexander Payne’s new film, The Descendants, starring George Clooney. The film is getting strong reviews after a Telluride sneak peak and a Toronto world premiere, and Payne talks about the film and its warm reception in my piece, coming soon to this blog. In the coming weeks and months they’ll be much more about The Descendants and about Payne’s next planned film after this, which he’ll be launching relatively early in 2012.

New Clip From Alexander Payne’s THE DESCENDANTS Starring George Clooney (collider.com)
George Clooney Reflects On Playing Dad, His Career & Dreams (huffingtonpost.com)
Telluride Review: Alexander Payne’s New Dramedy ‘The Descendants’ (firstshowing.net)
Toronto: Hail ‘The Descendants’ (insidemovies.ew.com)

Categories: Alexander Payne, Cinema, Film, Nebraskans in Film Tags: Alexander Payne, Descendants, George Clooney, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto

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Author-journalist-blogger Leo Adam Biga resides in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. He writes newspaper-magazine stories about people, their passions, and their magnificent obsessions. He's the author of the books "Crossing Bridges: A Priest's Uplifting Life Among the Downtrodden," "Alexander Payne: His Journey in Film" (a compilation of his journalism about the acclaimed filmmaker) "Open Wide" a biography of Mark Manhart. Biga co-edited "Memories of the Jewish Midwest: Mom and Pop Grocery Stores." His popular blog, Leo Adam Biga's My Inside Stories at leoadambiga.com, is an online gallery of his work. The blog feeds into his Facebook page, My Inside Stories, as well as his Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Tumblr, About.Me and other social media platform pages.