The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award
Golf movie with wine; great directors should work more often
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- Sideways is a golf movie with wine: Miles’s clothes, Jack’s clubs and golf on television support the argument. — Chris Ryan
- Payne's best film is debated among Sideways, Election and The Descendants. Election's cruelty divides the speakers, while Payne's later emotional warmth is admired; Clooney's Up in the Air, Descendants and Michael Clayton period is praised.
- Great directors should work more often, with Payne and Field singled out for long gaps.
- A Knausgård adaptation with Mikkelsen reportedly collapsed just before production; a Dorian Gray project is another unrealized Payne film.
- Comparing Payne with the Knicks failing to acquire stars is rejected because Payne already made Sideways and won two screenplay Oscars.