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8 movies that inspired The Holdovers: from Jack Nicholson to the French New Wave

What movies inspired The Holdovers? Screenwriter David Hemingson shared the directors and specific movies that he watched while working on the script.

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Alexander Payne on the inspirations of 'The Holdovers' and the movies that shaped him

A deep affection for cinema tends to run alongside the moviemaking for Alexander Payne

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Exclusive: The Holdovers writer says superhero movies overlook heroic stories of everyday people

The Holdovers writer David Hemingson discusses his new movie and what we're missing from having less adult-driven stories.

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‘The Holdovers’: Richly satisfying film throws together unlikely trio on an empty campus

‘Sideways’ team of director Alexander Payne and star Paul Giamatti join forces again for character study set during grim 1970 holiday break at a New England prep school.

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UK cinemagoers hail return of intermissions as films hit three-hour mark

Vue cinemas add an interval to Scorsese’s bladderbusting 206-minute Killers of the Flower Moon

The Guardian - UK

The strike has dimmed the spotlight on the fall's best performances. Here's 13 you shouldn't miss

One of the many impacts of Hollywood's lengthy actors strike has been that most performers haven't been able to promote their work

The Independent UK

Movie Review: A holiday movie with some bite in Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers’

“Sideways” filmmaker Alexander Payne brings audiences to a New England boarding school in 1970 in “The Holdovers,” about three lonely and mismatched souls stuck together over Christmas break

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The Holdovers movie review: Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti reunite for a charming and disarming tale

Paul Giamatti stars as a mean-spirited boarding school history teacher in this heart-warming dramedy about the lies we tell each other, and ourselves

Evening Standard

Japan auteur Yamada sticks to exploring the human condition after 90 films

Yoji Yamada has directed 90 films, including “Tora-san,” which tops the Guinness World Records for the longest-running movie series starring the same actor

The Independent UK

Toronto film festival 2023 roundup – solidarity, swearing, swimming and one standout film

While a clutch of directorial debuts by actors mostly misfired, a return to form for Alexander Payne and award-worthy performances by Jamie Foxx and Jodie Comer offered plenty to get excited about

The Guardian - UK

The Holdovers review – Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti reunite for charming comedy

The director makes a welcome return to form with a warm and melancholic 70s-set comedy drama led by a trio of note-perfect performances

The Guardian - US

Alexander Payne makes 'em like they used to: Fall Movie Preview

The great films of the 1970s have long loomed in the imagination of filmmakers raised during one of the most fertile periods of American movies

The Independent UK

Fall Movie Preview: Hollywood readies for a season with stars on the sidelines

Hollywood is at a standstill

The Independent UK

Fall Movie Preview 2023: Let’s spend the season with Napoleon, Poirot and a snowbound Meg Ryan

Anne Hathaway, Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Blunt, Michael Fassbender and Jamie Foxx are among the stars of the most promising movies in the weeks till Thanksgiving.

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Reese Witherspoon for president! Election, a comedy from a time when US politics was amusing

Alexander Payne’s spiky and smart 1999 film, with its cast led by Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, follows a race for high school president in Omaha, Nebraska

Salon

Randall Park reveals his "Shortcomings"

The director on how Greta Gerwig and Alexander Payne inspired his directorial debut and embracing flawed characters

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The Holdovers: release date, cast and everything we know about the movie

Alexander Payne reunites with Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers. Here is everything we know about the new comedy movie.

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5 years ago, Matt Damon made a sci-fi flop that was ahead of its time

While the film remains tonally inconsistent, it’s aged astonishingly well in the half-decade since it’s debut. Here’s why 'Downsizing' deserves a second shot.

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The Guardian - US

Reese Witherspoon to return as Tracy Flick in Election sequel

The Oscar-winner will reunite with Alexander Payne for a Paramount+ adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s Tracy Flick Can’t Win

The Independent UK

What did Election’s Tracy Flick do to deserve our scorn?

As novelist Tom Perrotta publishes a sequel about the ambitious schoolgirl immortalised by Reese Witherspoon, Amanda Whiting asks: was a teenage girl striver who baked 200 cupcakes to influence a class election really a villain for our times?

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