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Sideways

October 2017

  • 2004, SIDEWAYS<br>PAUL GIAMATTI & THOMAS HADEN CHURCH
Film 'SIDEWAYS' (2004)
Directed By ALEXANDER PAYNE
13 September 2004
SSE16996
Allstar Collection/FOX SEARCHLIGHT
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    A merlot blow for Paul Giamatti?

  • Paul Giamatti (as Miles) and Thomas Haden Church (as Jack) in Sideways.

    Pass notes
    Surviving the Sideways effect: why merlot is making a comeback

January 2017

  • Curtis Stone and his brother Luke at LA restaurant Gwen

    On the SoCal food trail with Curtis Stone: sunshine, Santa Ynez wine and celebrities

    A self-proclaimed culinary simpleton takes a food safari through Californian wine country on a tasting trail inspired by one of Australia’s favourite TV chefs

June 2016

  • Simon Harrison (Jack), Daniel Weyman (Miles), Beth Cordingly (Terra) and Ellie Piercy (Maya) in Sideways by Rex Pickett @ St James Theatre. Directed by David Grindley.

    Sideways review – a glass-half-empty adaptation of the movie

    An attempt to adapt the Oscar-winning film for the stage cannot disguise its origins sufficiently enough to work as theatre

May 2016

  • Paul Giamatti as Miles, left, and Thomas Haden Church as Jack in the film version of Sideways.

    Sideways author: 'I was ready to shoot myself – then I found pinot noir'

    His riotous story of two buddies on a wine-and-woman odyssey intoxicated the world. As Sideways hits the stage, Rex Pickett recalls how he went from debt-ridden divorcee to the toast of Hollywood

March 2016

  • Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church in Sideways.

    West End play raises a glass to Sideways, after it shone a spotlight on pinot noir

    A decade after the movie, and as London stages the story, winemakers in California are still feeling the effects

November 2014

  • Incredible shrinking Matt … Damon in The Informant.

    Matt Damon downsizing with Alexander Payne

  •  Brad Pitt with his troops in Fury.

    That’s the spirit: drinking in cinema's 2014 vintage

August 2014

  • Wine snobs need not apply

    Drink aloud
    Don’t let wine trends turn you into a wine snob

    Drink aloud: Take no notice of wine trends - the film Sideways unfairly knocked the reputation of merlot. Just drink the wines you enjoy

April 2014

  • The original Sideways and (right) the remake.

    Shortcuts
    Saidoweizu: the Japanese remake of Sideways and other unlikely films

    Hollywood likes nothing better than to do its own version of Asian movies. But occasionally it happens the other way around

November 2013

  • Alexander Payne

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Alexander Payne interview: 'Nebraska is just where I'm from'

    The Sideways director talks to Killian Fox about funny walks, the lure of the past and Nebraska, the film he waited years to make

January 2012

  • George Clooney in The Descendants

    Box office analysis: UK
    The Descendants gives War Horse a run for its money

    Charles Gant: The George Clooney film from Sideways director Alexander Payne enjoys a healthy box-office debut, while the new Sherlock Holmes looks set to overtake its predecessor
  • Reel review
    The Descendants: 'Complacent - even colourless at the centre' - video review

    George Clooney plays a grief-stricken father-of-two with panache in Alexander Payne's follow-up to Sideways – but the director's usual bite has been softened by the sun in this Hawaiian-set family drama, says Xan Brooks

  • alexander payne

    Alexander Payne: Life after Sideways

    He bagged an Oscar for Sideways (after refusing George Clooney a lead role). Now he's back with The Descendants (and this time Clooney made the cut)

October 2011

  • Berenice Bejo attends the premiere of The Artist at the London film festival.

    Trailer trash
    Trailer trash

    Alexander 'Sideways' Payne is on fine form again, while The Artist never fails to get a standing ovation – Jason Solomons on the news and gossip from the London film festival

November 2008

  • Japanese version of Sideways in the pipeline

    Remake of Alexander Payne's 2004 comedy to retread the steps of Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church in the vineyards of California

May 2008

  • Naked ambition

    Thomas Haden Church got his break in Sideways by stripping for the audition. He tells Ed Pilkington why he's baring all for his new movie, and how he went from chainsaw-swinging cowboy with a failed TV career behind him to Hollywood's favourite rogue

July 2006

  • Zero or hero?

    Paul Giamatti might have been an academic - his father was president of Yale - but instead became an actor making his name as the 'ordinary man' of indie films. Now finally, the laidback star of Sideways is an unlikely leading man in M Night Shyamalan's controversial new film. By Gaby Wood.

May 2005

  • Sideways

    Cert 15

March 2005

  • Sideways scores at indie awards

    Sideways triumphed at the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday night with six gongs, before leaving the Oscars nearly empty-handed the following night.

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