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22/06/2026

Which film about summer heat inspires you the most?

21/06/2026

Mini Coopers hurtling down the staircase in The Italian Job (1969), directed by Peter Collinson

21/06/2026

Marlene Dietrich

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Jack Lemmon and Gene Hackman playing golf, 1990

21/06/2026

Alexander Payne on the formative films that inspired him to become a filmmaker and shaped his cinematic imagination:

"The three films that, in hindsight, most made me want to be a filmmaker were Modern Times, Viridiana, and Seven Samurai. I’d already seen some Kurosawa, but when I was a junior in college, the restored Seven Samurai played at the Castro in San Francisco. I just couldn’t believe that you could re-create the past that vividly. That’s probably the movie I’ve seen more times than anything else — 50, 60, 70 times. Viridiana I saw as a university student in Spain just at the time when movies banned under Franco were finally trickling out. I didn’t know a movie could be that ferocious.

That’s where I also saw La Dolce Vita for the first time, in Spain, on its first release in 1981. And then, of course, City Lights, which has that sublime ending. Later, 8½, just the brilliance. For me, that’s the Italian Citizen Kane."

Alexander Payne interviewed by Bilge Ebiri, 2023

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