![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Payne’s taking time from trying to get a new feature off the ground to join Giamatti for an August 25 public conversation accented by clips. The Indiewood project surprised its makers by becoming a serious box office success and major awards contender. Their on-the-road odyssey of regret, self-pity and debauchery is tempered by redeeming love. He’s the sad half of a dysfunctional buddy team with Jack (Thomas Haden Church), whose frivolity masks hurt. But in Alexander Payne’s Sideways (2004), he melts hearts with earnest desire and neurotic angst as lovelorn Miles. It’s rare for someone with his hangdog looks to be a romantic interest. Go-to character actor Paul Giamatti brings élan to his screen gallery of nerdy sidekicks and beleaguered Everyman types. Kindred spirits Giamatti and Payne to revisit the triumph of ‘Sideways’ and the art of finding truth and profundity in the holy ordinaryĪppearing in the August 2019 edition of The Reader () ![]()
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