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NEW YORK (AP) — There are rituals to an Alexander Payne movie. “The Holdovers” is Payne's attempt to make not just a ‘70-set film but an actual ’70s film, styled after some of the movies he grew up with. “I like talking about other people’s movies more than my own,” Payne shrugged. But there was always that distant dream of not being a filmmaker but just going to film school. Most of us trained in film school like those ’70s guys.

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☆ How Truths Are Told at a Liquor Store in ‘The Holdovers’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Mekado Murphy | More About Mekado Murphy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. You can also watch our collection of more than 150 videos on YouTube and subscribe to our YouTube channel. It’s time to come clean in this sequence from “The Holdovers,” a comedy set in 1970 during the holiday break at an all-boys boarding school. At one point, the two leave campus for a trip to Boston where Paul runs into, and lies to, an old college acquaintance. Angus confronts his teacher about the lie in this scene in a liquor store that plays out primarily in one take.

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☆ ‘The Holdovers’ Review: Three Sad Souls Stranded for Christmas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Wesley Morris | More About Wesley Morris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

They set little traps for Hunham’s arrogance and sic their daddies on the administrators, who then bear down on him. It’s a ritzy, laugh-out-loud Christmas miracle that whisks away four of the boys at the end of the first act. But one of them, an almost cool only-child named Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa), can’t go because nobody can reach his parents. He directed this movie — from a script David Hemingson wrote — and moody, quarrelsome people are his specialty. This is his eighth feature-length movie — “Citizen Ruth,” “Election,” “Sideways,” “About Schmidt,” “The Descendants,” “Nebraska” and “Downsizing” precede this one.

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☆ Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne pair up again for 'The Holdovers'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Hanna Rantala | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Cast member Paul Giamatti poses at the premiere of "Straight Outta Compton" in Los Angeles, California August 10, 2015. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Actor Paul Giamatti and filmmaker Alexander Payne reunite after almost 20 years for "The Holdovers", a Christmas-time tale of a trio of unlikely companions that premiered at the London Film Festival on Wednesday. Giamatti, who appeared in Payne's 2004 Oscar-winning movie "Sideways", plays Paul Hunham, a teacher of ancient history at a high-status New England boarding school for boys. After getting off to a disastrous start, the two-week break turns into an invigorating experience for Hunham, Mary and troubled student Angus Tully (Dominic Sessa). "The Holdovers" is out in U.S. cinemas this November and will be released globally in early 2024.

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