Should ‘Downsizing’ have been a TV series? ‘Election’ and ‘Sideways’ filmmaker Alexander Payne seriously ponders the questions, and reflects on whether he could have made 2023’s ‘The Holdovers’ without Paul Giamatti.
With Silent Night, director John Woo returns to the English language market with one of his signature action pieces for a bit of counter-holiday programming.
The film, says the director, is trying to take the idea of the period film “one step further”: not just to conjure up the mood of a bygone time, but to recapture a movie-making sensibility that it pioneered.