Alexander Payne

April 2017

The Oscar-winning writer-director sings the praises of Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in Ettore Scola’sA Special Dayand cops to never having seen Robert Altman’s3 Women.

11 picks

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Picks (11)

Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom

Pier Paolo Pasolini

1976 • Italy • 1h 56m

Unavailable

Ace in the Hole

Billy Wilder

1951 • United States • 1h 51m

Unavailable

3 Women

Robert Altman

1977 • United States • 2h 4m

Unavailable

L’avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni

1960 • Italy • 2h 24m

Le plaisir

Max Ophuls

1952 • France • 1h 37m

¡Alambrista!

Robert M. Young

1977 • United States • 1h 36m

The Breaking Point

Michael Curtiz

1950 • United States • 1h 37m

Unavailable

Speedy

Ted Wilde

1928 • United States • 1h 26m

Red Beard

Akira Kurosawa

1965 • Japan • 3h 5m

A Special Day

Ettore Scola

1977 • Italy • 1h 46m

The Executioner

Luis García Berlanga

1963 • Spain • 1h 31m