“We were very fully making a ’70s movie,” Payne says, recently speaking by phone from his desk in Omaha, Nebraska.
Payne, 62, shot “The Holdovers,” set at a New England boarding school, largely with filmmaking equipment and camera lenses from that period.
“We were trying to play the exercise of: We are in 1970 making this movie,” he says.
I told (screenwriter) David Hemingson: ‘We’re writing for Paul Giamatti.
But as long-term and ’70s-oriented as making “The Holdovers” was, it struck Payne as a contemporary story, too.
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