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Exclusive Descendants Featurette: George Clooney and Alexander Payne Discuss Acting

The Descendants may look like a 21st century family drama, but as this exclusive featurette proves, writer/director Alexander Payne and George Clooney can trace its world back to cinema of the ’50s and ’60s. Watch as George Clooney talks about Gregory Peck and his uncle, the late Oscar winner José Ferrer, and Payne recalls wise words from a kooky Czech stage actor.

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Exclusive Descendants Featurette: George Clooney and Alexander Payne Discuss Acting

REVIEW: Rid of Me Plays Rough — And is All the Better for It

Rid of Me , James Westby’s scrappy dramedy about marriage, divorce and finding your inner punk rocker, begins with an act that makes flipping someone off or putting a brick through a windshield look passé. It takes place in a grocery store, and is the kind of ballsy, juvenile and legitimately shocking gesture that indie films used to chase after because studio features would never dare. These days the division between the two realms is fuzzy at best, but this film, which premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, recalls when a little roughness in form and content was part of the charm.

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REVIEW: Rid of Me Plays Rough — And is All the Better for It