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2 episodes with dominic sessa
2 episodes with dominic sessa
2 episodes with dominic sessa
2 episodes with dominic sessa
Every Sunday, I'll post a quick video -- and podcast -- about an indie film from at least a year ago. Today's film: THE HOLDOVERS (2023).Director: Alexander PayneScreenplay: David HemingsonCast: Paul Giamatti; Dominic Sessa; Carrie Preston; Brady HepnerSYNOPSISA curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.Watch This On YouTubeSubscribe to our YouTube channelFollow us on LetterboxdFollow us on InstagramFollow us on XFollow us on FacebookFollow us on TikTokFollow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube channelSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/first-time-go/exclusive-content
For the last of our offbeat holiday selections this year, we're talking about an instant new classic for us, The Holdovers! This film bridges the no-man's-land time between Christmas and New Year's Day, when time stretches, everything seems a little foggy, and it's easy to forget what day it is. We're thrilled to welcome first-time guest, long-time friend, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sanjay Salomon to discuss this film, which has many personal connections to his own youth growing up in Western Mass, at Deerfield Academy (main filming location) no less! We also talk about Alexander Payne's vision of The Holdovers as a part of the 70s film catalogue that includes some of our other favorite movies like Hal Ashby's Harold & Maude and The Last Detail, the top notch performances from Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and first time film actor Dominic Sessa, Ryan Warren Smith's production design that captures the true spirit of a New England winter, and the amazing score from Mark Orton, which draws heavily on 70s influences like Cat Stevens and somehow perfectly evokes both the time and the place of The Holdovers. Pour yourself a tall drink of your choice and ring in the New Year with us!
“Which eye should I look at?” ¡Esta navidad revisitamos una de las mejores películas de la temporada pasada "The Holdovers". Publicado originalmente en febrero de 2024. En este episodio de Cine con Piquete, Óscar Zueck (IG: @zueck), Cris Becerril (IG: @crisbecerril) y Sibis Gaxiola (IG: @sibisblog) discuten sobre lo que les gustó, lo que no y califican esta entrega cinematográfica estelarizada por Dominic Sessa y Paul Giamatti y dirigida por Alexander Payne. Todo esto acompañado de un Whiskey Sour . Nuestras redes sociales son: Instagram - @cine_con_piquete Tiktok - Cine con Piquete e-mail - conpiquetecine@gmail.com
Mit "The Holdovers" hat Regisseur Alexander Payne 2023 einen Weihnachtsfilm geschaffen, der Kritiker und Kino-Zuschauer gleichermaßen begeistert und von vielen Fans bereits als moderner Christmas-Klassiker gehandelt wird. Aber ob die Dramedy wirklich so großartig ist, wie vielfach behauptet wird oder ob der dramaturgische Weihnachtsbaum doch ganz ordentlich Nadeln lässt - das finden wir gemeinsam heraus, wenn wir unser kritisches Lazy-Eye auf die Geschichte rund um Paul Hunham und Angus Tully werfen. Alle Infos unter: Offizielle Website: www.screen-shots.de Instagram: www.instagram.com/screen_shots_podcast
Join Alex and returning guest host Dr. Ed Hansen in a festive discussion of a recent, but to-be-considered a holiday classic, Alexander Payne's The Holdovers (2023). This is a story of a young, ne'er-do-well (Dominic Sessa as Angus Tully) who meets an immovable force in an old, curmudgeonly boarding school classic teacher (Paul Giamatti as Paul Hunham). They're both "heldover" the winter holidays at the prestigious Barton Academy, with a grieving mother played by Da'Vine Joy Randolph. Over the course of the break, the three learn more about each other and how to navigate an unforgiving landscape of adolescence and obsolescence. Psych concepts explored include generativity vs. stagnation, identity, isolation and grief, the stages of grief/death, and because Ed joined us, of course there's always some I/O psych involved. Because it's so random, we also speculate how Hunham would deal with the current wave of Generative AI taking over the education landscape! Stay for the fellowship, hold over with us! Follow Ed at several places on social media: @EdHansen_PhDAD Please leave your feedback on this post, the main site (cinemapsychpod.swanpsych.com), on Facebook (@CinPsyPod), or Threads/Instagram (@cinemapsych_podcast). We'd love to hear from you! Don't forget to check out our Paypal link to contribute to this podcast and keep the lights on! Don't forget to check out our MERCH STORE for some great merch with our logo and other designs! Legal stuff: 1. All film clips are used under Section 107 of Title 17 U.S.C. (fair use; no copyright infringement is intended). 2. Intro and outro music by half.cool ("Gemini"). Used under license. 3. Film reel sound effect by bone666138. Used under license CC-BY 3.0.
INTRO - It's another fully loaded Oscar Race Checkpoint. BOX OFFICE UPDATE 1:02 - Romulus earnings are strong + Ryan and Blake's shared success 6:41 - Rest of the Top 15 includes Coraline's comeback & the Borderlands bomb MAKE THE CASE: QUICK NON-SPOILER REVIEWS 7:57 - Cuckoo had awesome style and nearly as much goo as an alien film 10:15 - This Woman and the Sea rave review has enraged everyone 11:50 - Strange Darling teases to be a possible film study from us AWARDS NEWS 12:50 - Joaquin Phoenix Leaves Todd Haynes Detective Romance Film 19:05 - Eugene & Dan Levy confirmed as Emmy Hosts. Do they have enough prep time? 20:20 - Gotham Awards add Best Director & Breakthrough Performer categories 22:12 - Latvia Selects Flow as its Best International Feature D23: FUTURE MOVIE NEWS 23:19 - Disney's Body Swap Comedies + All The Sequel Announcements 25:19 - Mufasa Trailer 2 is still not winning us over 27:04 - Moana 2 is cuteness overload 28:04 - Snow White has one Mike in favor and the other against CASTING NEWS 29:20 - Nicholas Cage will play John Madden 32:42 - Dominic Sessa will play Anthony Bourdain FILM FESTIVAL NEWS 34:32 - NYFF Spotlight Section adds some targets to our watchlist 42:30 - The Venice Schedule has been released 45:21 - TIFF adds even more special presentations TRAILER REVIEWS 46:18 - Saturday Night's alright for fighting 49:04 - The Outrun is gonna be Saoirse Ronan's 5th nom 51:12 - Woman of the Hour is a freaky true story 52:39 - The Room Next Door causes a major debate over fake snow 54:08 - A Quickie Nightbitch Book Review 54:43 - The Substance throws AlsoMike once again, proving he has lost his mind 56:34 - Y2K looks very funny 58:50 - OUTRO: Our socials, how to contact us, if AlsoMike will go and party with the hippies and bigfoot, what's coming next from us, extension chords and words of wisdom.
On this edition of dispatch we've got:SPORTS2:20 - Kansas City Royals trounce the Cincinnati Reds in 3 game series.4:30 - Aaron Judge reaches the 300 Home Run Milestone at record pace.8:30 - JJ McCarthy out for the season, Sam Darnold set to start for Minnesota Vikings.ARCHAEOLOGY14:00 - New discovery at Stonehenge21:30 - Private Company halts exploration of Gobeckli Tepe, preventing us from discovering potential history defining check points in human civilization.ENTERTAINMENT29:40 - Kit Harington opens up about his sobriety and relationship with his famed GAME OF THRONES character.36:15 - Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal reunite on Hulu's first spanish-language series.39:10 - Dominic Sessa set to star as Anthony Bourdain in biopic.47:00 - Rick and Morty: The Anime premieres49:40 - John Wick 5 reportedly in early development, and what it needs to be for us to be down.54:40 - ALIEN: ROMULUS review, and full ranking of the ALIEN franchise.We cap it off with on the spot:1:27:40 - If you could combine any 2 franchises for a cool undertaking (I.E. Alien vs Predator) what would they be?1:33:45 - What are your favorite director x actor pairings in all of movies?
Nicolas Cage to play a famous American football coach, Dominic Sessa to play a famous chef and the greatest show hits the stage...!
It's a thriller. It's a Josh Hartnett vehicle. It's…a comedy? But is it the kind of trap you want to fall into, or the kind you want to avoid? Our mileage varies, but one thing is for sure: cinema yappers and movie snitches are both likely to get bonechilling glares from a MaxFilm host. We've got culture writer and film critic Fran Hoepfner along for these Shyamal-antics, plus a hotline question about memorable moviegoing experiences. What's GoodAlonso - Imane Khelif's gold medal, but really her cyberbullying lawsuitDrea - Seeing Ify in a short, but really her new movie, A New York Story!Fran - Albero dei Gelati yellow bell pepper gelatoIfy - Gundams survived the big quakeITIDICAt D23, An Announcement about…Nine Inch Nails?Dominic Sessa will play Anthony BourdainJoaquin Phoenix Made an 11th-Hour Exit from the next Todd Haynes FilmStaff PicksAlonso - The StepfatherDrea - Jackpot! (also Virgin Suicides)Fran - Rap WorldIfy - The FacultyAlonso Duralde presents No Time for Love at the Los Feliz 3Fran on LetterboxdLeave us a Hotline message! Follow us on BlueSky, Twitter, Facebook, or InstagramWithDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeIfy NwadiweProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher
Episode Rundown: - Industry season 3 premiere & what we've been watching (0:00) - Quick-Hitters: Ridley Scott top 4 films, The Penguin premiere date, Tom Cruise & the Hollywood sign, & Clooney calls out Tarantino (22:04) - Kraven The Hunter trailer & the Spider-Man villain issue (34:02) - The Monkey trailer (52:01) - Joaquin Phoenix drops out of Todd Haynes film (54:55) - Dominic Sessa as Anthony Bourdain & Nic Cage as John Madden (1:01:18) - Lakeith Stanfield joins J-Law & Robert Pattinson movie, James Cameron Terminator project (1:11:46)
Tom Hardy and Astin Butler are great but Jodie Comer is stellar in The Bikeriders- a movie about a time when America was undergoing some pretty radical changes. Go along for the ride as it focuses on on a Midwest motorcycle club- The Vandals- as seen through the eyes of one of it's cornerstone member's wife. 0:13:00 - Box Office and upcoming releases. 0:28:00 *** What's Streaming *** AMAZON THE HOLDOVERS, Dir. Alexander Payne – Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, 2023. BIO DOME, Dir. Jason Bloom – Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, William Atherton, 1996. INTERSTELLAR, Dir. Christopher Nolan – Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Timothee Chalamet, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck, Topher Grace, Matt Damon, 2014. 0:38:00 - Trailers: NOSFERATU – Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bill Skarsgard, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Lily-Rose Depp, Simon McBurney, Feature. RED ONE – Chris Evans, Dwayne Johnson, Lucy Liu, J.K. Simmons, Bonnie Hunt, Feature, Amazon. FLIGHT RISK – Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, Topher Grace, Feature. 0:46:30 - THE BIKERIDERS, Dir. Jeff Nichols ( Grayson 6 / Roger 6 / Chris 5 ) Hosted, produced and mixed by Grayson Maxwell and Roger Stillion. Also hosted by Christopher Boughan. Music by Chad Wall. Quality Assurance by Anthony Emmett. Visit the new Youtube channel, "For the Love of Cinema" to follow and support our short video discussions. Please give a like and subscribe if you enjoy it. Follow the show on Twitter @lovecinemapod and check out the Facebook page for updates. Rate, subscribe and leave a comment or two. Every Little bit helps. Send us an email to fortheloveofcinemapodcast@gmail.com
Merry Christmas one and all! That's right, Hannah's picked 2023's The Holdovers, Alexander Payne's dramedy set in a posh boys' boarding school in the 1970s over the festive period. It bagged an Oscar for the glorious Da'Vine Joy Randolph and features equally stellar performances from Paul Giamatti and newcomer Dominic Sessa. Are we giving too much away in this write-up? Nah, Hannah, Yosra and Mick all agree it's fecking delightful. Come join the love-in. Bring bourbon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark and DJ Valentine discuss the 2023 comedy The Holdovers. Directed by Alexander Payne, and starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa and some hormonal vulgarians, the Academy Award winning movie is absolutely delightful. In this episode, they talk about excellent screenplays, trampoline injuries, and Paul Giamatti. Enjoy!
Marvel Studios released a second trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine, coming to theaters July 26. Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry took to social media to promote Transformers One, an animated prequel that also stars Scarlett Johansson. Trap - a new M. Night Shyamalan film starring Josh Hartnett - dropped a trailer for the serial killer concert film. The spring box office is experiencing some peaks and valleys with A24's Civil War continuing to stay in the number one spot over Universal's new vampire film, Abigail, which only brought in $10.2 million on its opening weekend. Godzilla x Kong continues to stomp its way toward a $500 million dollar box office worldwide, but Guy Ritchie's new outing, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, only opened to $9 million domestically. Tom Holland, speaking with Deadline at the Sands Film Festival this weekend, touched on if he will return for a fourth Spider-Man film and where the future of the project stands. No, it's not the Michael Scott Paper Company - Greg Daniels truly is rebooting the NBC comedy The Office with sources reporting Sabrina Impacciatore from The White Lotus and Domhnall Gleeson of Star Wars and Harry Potter fame are the first two actors to sign on for the show. Daniels is finishing his Amazon show Upload currently as well as working to continue King of the Hill. Apple has renewed the AppleTV+ alternate history series For All Mankind for a fifth season and has ordered a spin off series titled Star City that will follow the Soviet space race. Now You See Me 3 has filled out its cast with Dungeons and Dragons Honor Among Thieves star Justice Smith, The Holdovers star Dominic Sessa, and Barbie star Ariana Greenblatt joining the cast. DC's Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes is getting his first graphic novel in October titled This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story. Quentin Tarantino, who has been developing his final film The Movie Critic that was set to star Brad Pitt, is backing away from the project, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. DC Studio's Superman has cast Pruitt Taylor Vince as Jonathan Kent and Neva Howell as Martha Kent, the Earth parents of Superman. Amazon has officially renewed Fallout for a second season. Production of the second season is expected to shift to California to take advantage of a $25 million dollar tax credit. Sources tell Variety that Martin Scorsese has planned his next two films and currently plans to shoot the projects back to back, the first a film about Jesus and the second a Frank Sinatra biopic. Journalist and author Rainbow Rowell is jumping over to DC Comics to make a new Lois Lane storyline a reality. Cian Tormey will illustrate the series. Netflix has announced that The Witcher has been renewed for a fifth and final season. Season 4, which stars Liam Hemsworth who is taking over the role of Geralt from Henry Cavill, is currently in production. Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec, the team behind Amazon's high-profile spy series Citadel and showrunners on Netflix's adaptation of Cowboy Bebop have been tapped to write Disney's live-action adaptation of Space Mountain, based on the indoor Disneyland roller coaster. Tramell Tillman who broke out on AppleTV+'s series Severance has been cast in the upcoming Mission Impossible 8. Face/Off 2 reportedly is moving forward with headliners John Travolta and Nicolas Cage returning for the film. Amblin Entertainment is making The Thursday Murder Club based on the popular books by Richard Osman. Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, and Ben Kingsley have been cast to headline the film. Westworld's Thandiwe Newton has joined the cast of Wednesday season 2.
In this slice of life dramedy, Oscar winner for best supporting actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Mary Lamb supporst a cranky, rigid professor Paul Hunham (Paul Giammatti) and Angus Tully, portrayed by delightful newcomer (Dominic Sessa), a troubled irritating student.
Hello Wholigans! On today's Who's There, our weekly call-in show, we revisit our FIVE-YEAR-OLD segment about the pronunciation of Cholmondeley before taking your calls about call sheets, Jedward's friendship with Gemma Collins, Reneé Rapp's new relationship with Towa Bird, a stylist with famous sisters, Rob Lowe's Oscar party slash birthday party slash DirecTV spon party, Dominic Sessa's origin story, the rise of the butt crack, and more. As always, call in at 619.WHO.THEM to leave questions, comments & concerns for a future episode of Who's There?. Support us and get a TON of bonus content over on Patreon.com/WhoWeekly. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ben & Rob stay in school with ‘The Holdovers', the Alexander Payne coming-of-age drama that's nominated for no less than FIVE Academy Awards! Starring Paul Giamatti, DaVine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa in his debut role, ‘The Holdovers' tells the tale of a curmudgeonly teacher having to stay in school over the Christmas break; to babysit students who are unwanted at home for the holidays. Filled with subtle performances in a career highlight for co-stars Paul Giamatti and DaVine Joy Randolph, we recorded the episode before it came to light this film may have been plagiarised from a script named ‘Frisco'; if it turns out to have all been a big scam we WILL re-record!Ripoff claims aside, ‘The Holdovers' might just be the warmest, comfiest film of this decade. So why does director Alexander Payne despise having his film described in those terms? Which of Paul Giamatti's eyes is lazy and how did they achieve it? And why was Ben spiked by Rob into an eight hour trip?!CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS! We have a YouTube with EXCLUSIVE content just for you - click the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast
Jake & Seth discuss the 2023 Dramedy, The Holdovers, starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa.
It's time for another Oscars review episode as we get to our latest Best Picture nominee and go over the Paul Giamatti movie that is The Holdovers! Why did we love this movie so much? How great is Paul Giamatti? How great is Da'Vine Joy Randolph? How great is Dominic Sessa and should he have also been nominated for an Oscar? Why is this movie such a great Christmas movie? Do we want to live at the school for Christmas? Was Alexander Payne robbed of an Oscar nomination? Is the music good or a bit annoying? How excited are we to talk about Tate Donovan and why does he guarantee you an Oscar nominated movie? And when are we watching this movie again? It's a fun one so get to listening as we continue our Oscar coverage in style! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Terpaksa tetap tinggal di asrama sekolah di masa libur Natal dan Tahun Baru, seorang guru killer, murid cerdas yang bermasalah, dan kepala kantin yang sedang berduka menjalin persahabatan tak terduga dan menyentuh. Simak pengalaman Krishna yang ikut terbawa hanyut oleh gemilangnya chemistry Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, dan Dominic Sessa di The Holdovers. Powered by Firstory Hosting
Jovanni, Nikki, and Tracey head back to school as they review The Holdovers, the Oscar nominated film starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa.
Encore! Two-time Oscar-nominated editor Kevin Tent, discusses with Jan Price his film, "The Holdovers," starring Paul Giamatti! “The Holdovers” is now streaming on Peacock!Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/AhKLpJmHhIg?si=mmniHE2Fn7esMYe9From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during the holiday break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We've got a new magazine on the shelves! So on this week's episode, the team talks about our revealing Charli XCX cover story shot by Richard Kern, as well as the issue's big music moments with new-gen junglist Nia Archives and the X-rated rap duo D-Block Europe. We also chat about profiling the hottest stars of Hollywood, including the fast-rising film star Dominic Sessa, as well as our flagship fashion feature with the legendary model Kristen McMenamy. Fancy a copy? You get one from theface.com, or a good shop near you.
Starting our Oscar 2024 tour, we highlight a Best Picture nominee in "The Holdovers". I gush about the performances of Paul Giamatti and Dominic Sessa as this holiday season film really hit closer to home then I expected. Spotify (Audio and Video): A+ Hero Report Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/6gwHfTopIa38HQdgtx4Bk9?si=bb5cc27239a4419a Join Our Discord Forum Community: https://discord.gg/uKstHsY A+ Amazon Wish List: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/22BG60615YS0M?ref_=wl_share Contact/Email: aplusopinions@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/aplusopinions TikTok: @heroreport Twitch: Twitch.tv/aplusopinions Twitter: @aplusopinions IG: @aplusopinions IG: @animeassembled --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aplusopinions/support
Dominic Sessa on his breakout role in Alexander Payne's Oscar nominated The Holdovers, plus Finnish actor Alma Poysti talks about working with Finnish master Aki Kaurismaki.
Dominic Sessa on his breakout role in Alexander Payne's Oscar nominated The Holdovers, plus Finnish actor Alma Poysti talks about working with Finnish master Aki Kaurismaki.
In this episode Mike reminisces about days of yore spent looking down girls' shirts, while Troy ponders which eye he should stare into, as they both break into the review gym and flip over The Holdovers.►Connect with 'Bald Guys & Bad Movies':-Facebook: / baldguysbadmovies -Instagram - / baldguysbadmovies -Twitter/X - / baldmovies ►Experience their unique takes on films of all stripes:- Apple Podcasts - ...
This week Josh and Jade review the Oscar nominated film, The Holders. The film stars Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa. Also inside the episode, our hosts list their favorite movies for Black History Month, and discuss the films and shows you should be watching (and some you should skip). Make us famous and hit the like button and give us a review.
Continuing our annual Oscars series, this week we discuss The Holdovers. Directed by Alexander Payne and based in the winter of 1970, this film follows an abrasive teacher, a cafeteria manager, and a small group of students who holdover at the Barton Academy over Christmas break. Starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa, the film explores how everyone has gone through personal tragedy, and the importance of coming to understand one another. It was named one of the top 10 films of 2023 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute, was awarded 2 Golden Globes, and has been nominated for 5 Academy Awards... But Is The Holdovers Good? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In which the Mister and Monsters join me in reviewing THE HOLDOVERS (2023), which you can find for streaming on Peacock. Written by David Hemingson and directed by Alexander Payne, the film follows Paul (Paul Giamatti), who's asked to watch the holdovers, kids with nowhere to go over the Christmas break. The group of kids diminishes when a parent comes to pick up their child and offers the other kids an invite but since Angus' (Dominic Sessa) mom doesn't consent because they can't get in touch with her, Angus must stay with Paul and the cafeteria manager, Mary (Da'Vine Joy Randolph. They stay on the school premises for the next few days and in this short time, the three form a bond that will change them by the story's end. Shout out to my buddy Zach for the recommendation. The film clocks in at 2 h and 13 m and is rated R. Please note there are SPOILERS in this review. Opening intro music: GOAT by Wayne Jones, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jokagoge/support
We are back! This week we cover the Oscar nominated film, The Holdovers. What a film. We cover why this is such a great film, the discovery of Dominic Sessa, Da'vine Randolph Joy, and more.Watch the Episode HereWatch our reactions!YouTube: @spicytunapod https://www.TikTok.com/@spicytunapodhttps://www.instagram.com/spicytunapod/https://www.spicytunapod.comSupport the show
In this episode of 15 | A Film Review Podcast, in preparation for the Oscars, Luke Oddie and Dan Wade review two of the biggest contenders.To begin with, the duo review Alexander Payne's The Holdovers. The comedy-drama is set in the winter of 1970–71 and stars Paul Giamatti as a strict classics teacher who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go over Christmas break. Co-stars Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa play the school cafeteria manager and one of the students who stays on campus, respectively.Then, Luke and Dan discuss Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things. Starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe, and based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray, the plot follows Bella Baxter, a young woman in Victorian London, who is resurrected by a scientist and embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery. Support the showObsessed with films too? See how your opinions match up against the boys'. Here's Luke's Letterboxd account and here's Dan's Letterboxd account.
On this episode of I Am The Wiz, Kim Shactman and The Wiz review the 2023 Oscar Nominated Film The Holdovers starting Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa, directed by Alexander Payne.
Larry is joined by Academy Award-nominated writer and producer David Hemingson to discuss his latest film ‘The Holdovers'. They begin the conversation by discussing the creative layers within the movie's story structure and David's working process with director Alexander Payne. They then dive into the deeply personal inspirations for each of the film's main characters and how the talents of stars Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and D'aVine Joy Randolph were essential their development (22:13). After the break Larry and David shine a light on the technical aspects of ‘The Holdovers' and speak on its myriad of 70's cinematic influences (44:59). David ends the pod sharing some advice for aspiring storytellers and examining the role of comedy in all of his projects (55:26). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: David Hemingson Associate Producer: Chris Sutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cozy vibes? Check! Banger soundtrack? Check! Cast with amazing chemistry? Check! Alexander Payne's quiet Christmas movie snuck up on us and stole our hearts. It is hard to deny this film its accolades when it made us feel so warm and fuzzy. We hope this movie is a great jumping off point for Dominic Sessa and leads to more Da'Vine Joy Randolph in everything everywhere all the time. What did you think of The Holdovers? Are you a good driver like Ana? Let us know! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram Watch the movie on Peacock Listen to the soundtrack Watch Dolemite is my Name Ryan Gosling on Stephen Colbert Listen to our other Alexander Payne episodes - Nebraska, The Descendants Theme music by RomanBelov #TheHoldovers #BestPicture #BestActor #BestSupportingActress #BestOriginalScreenplay #BestFilmEditing #PaulGiamatti #DaVineJoyRandolph #Oscars2024 #2024Oscars #AcademyAwards #Oscars
Alienation, abandonment and dislocated shoulders: not really your usual ingredients for a tender festive heart-warmer. But then again, The Holdovers – unequivocally one of our favourite films of the last twelve months – isn't your average Christmas movie. Directed by Alexander Payne and written by our guest today, the brilliant David Hemingson, it's a drama steeped in the pain of reaching the so-called “most wonderful time of the year” and feeling nothing but loneliness. The film tells the story of three loners thrown together by circumstance over the Christmas break at a New England boarding school, each disillusioned with a world that doesn't seem to want them. They have their differences. One – Paul, played by Paul Giamatti – is a miserly middle-aged academic with an odour problem. Another – Angus, played by newcomer Dominic Sessa – is a brash student of his, on the brink of being sent to military school. The third and possible heartbeat of the movie, Da'Vine Joy Randolph's Mary Lamb, is their school cook – a woman who recently lost everything. These characters find a richness in each other that's uplifting without ever feeling schmaltzy or sentimental. It's a staggeringly beautiful film.In the spoiler conversation you're about to hear, David tells us about Uncle Earl, the real-life family member he based the character Paul on. You'll hear how his first draft involved a woman Paul used to date with porcelain fingers, after injuring her hand in a car accident. We also spend some time debating the words "not for ourselves alone are we born" – the lesson, if there is one, of The Holdovers, and a mantra we could all doing with reminding ourselves of more in our fragmented 2024.Script Apart is hosted by Al Horner and produced by Kamil Dymek. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram, or email us on thescriptapartpodcast@gmail.com.Support for this episode comes from ScreenCraft, MUBI, Magic Mind, Final Draft and WeScreenplay.To get ad-free episodes and exclusive content, join us on Patreon.Support the show
In this Short Cut, Paul and Joe discuss the 2023 dramedy "The Holdovers," directed by Alexander Payne and starring Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph.You can follow Prime Cut Movie Podcast on Instagram, Facebook, & TikTok.E-mail Prime Cut Podcast at primecutpodcast@gmail.comhttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555307307349https://www.instagram.com/prime_cut_movie_podcast/https://www.tiktok.com/@primecutpodcast?lang=en
Is it too late to replace Timothee Chalamet with Dominic Sessa as Bob Dylan??? Join us this week while we discuss The Holdovers and other Academy Awards thoughts, feelings, and predictions. Our stuff:TikTok: @theswamppodcastInstagram: @theswamppodTwitter: @theswamppodOur Letterboxd Accounts: @okaydara and @ekievraYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv794Q8FKCMaBThxuWIZwIQOur website: https://www.the-swamp-podcast.com/Email: theswamppod@gmail.comMerch: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheSWAMPpodcast
Nate and Ryan discuss the Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated Alexander Payne comedic drama The Holdovers. Much has been made of the reunion of Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne after 20 years. Added to their alchemy are Da’Vine Joy Randolph (in yet another standout performance) and newcomer Dominic Sessa. What… Continue reading
We review the comedy drama starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa
THE HOLDOVERS (2023) This week on the show we cover the new Alexander Payne film, THE HOLDOVERS. Starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa.Nominated for five Oscars, including Best Actor, Best Picture, and Best Supporting Actress.✨ Subscribe, Share, and give us a 5 star review. ✨
The Holdovers is a 2023 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson in his feature writing debut. Set in 1970, it stars Paul Giamatti as a strict classics teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go on Christmas break. Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa (in his film debut) respectively play a cafeteria administrator and one of the students who stays on campus. The Holdovers premiered at the 50th Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the United States by Focus Features on October 27, 2023. It received positive reviews and has grossed $26 million. The film was named one of the top 10 films of 2023 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute, and has received many other accolades, including Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress (Randolph) and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Giamatti). It also received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Giamatti, Best Supporting Actress for Randolph, and seven British Academy Film Awards nominations, including Best Film and Director. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/popcorn-junkies/message
Torna nelle sale "Il Cacciatore" diretto da Michael Cimino, con Robert De Niro e John Cazale. Mauro Gervasini, giornalista, critico e direttore Trento Film Festival spiega perché è importante andare a vederlo.Leonardo Pieraccioni, regista e interprete di "Pare parecchio Parigi" con Nino Frassica e Chiara Francini, ci presenta il suo ultimo film. Marco Risi presenta il suo "Il punto di rugiada" con Massimo De Francovich e Eros Pagni.Con il nostro Boris Sollazzo parliamo di "Yannick" diretto da Quentin Dupieux, con Raphaël Quenard e Pio Marmaï e del film della settimana "The Holdovers" diretto da Alexander Payne, con Paul Giamatti e Dominic Sessa.
Will this movie become a Christmas rewatch? Emily and her dad discuss how this film beautifully captured the complexity of human nature, the power of empathy, and the duality of the elders teaching the youth and the youth teaching the elders. In this episode, Emily is joined again by their dad as they discuss the film The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne, starring Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph, released in October 2023.
How was ‘The Holdovers' made? Producer Mark Johnson takes Alex Zane through the production to understand the decisions that led to the casting of Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa, the movie's 1970s aesthetic, and how the film's early screenings shaped the final cut.Along the way, Johnson reveals some of the curious moments in the shoot; including how the impromptu casting of a real life liquor store manager led to one of his favourite moments in the movie.‘The Holdovers' is nominated for Best Film at the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2024. To discover who wins the trophy, tune in on 18th February on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK as well as around the world, including on BritBox in North America - and discover more interviews with the nominees and longlisted movies when you follow Countdown To The BAFTAs.To read the transcript from this episode visit the BAFTA website, where they will be available soon.Produced by Matt Hill and Ollie Peart at Rethink AudioSound Design by Peregrine AndrewsHosted by Alex ZaneA BAFTA production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The feel good film that took holiday moviegoers by storm, Alexander Payne's The Holdovers follows a cranky history teacher at a remote prep school that is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student who has no place to go. We discuss the trifecta of affecting performances in Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and first-time performer Dominic Sessa, as well as all the awards they're picking up.
The Holdovers: Movie Review from the Ray Taylor ShowShow topic: Join Ray Taylor for an insightful review of 'The Holdovers,' a 2023 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne. Written by David Hemingson and starring the talented Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa, this film is set in the backdrop of 1970 at a New England boarding school. The story unfolds around a cantankerous history teacher who finds himself in an unexpected situation, chaperoning a small group of students during Christmas break. These students, with nowhere else to go, bring unique challenges and revelations. Ray Taylor delves into the film's blend of humor and drama, the performances of its cast, and how 'The Holdovers' captures the essence of the holiday spirit in an unusual setting. Get ready to explore the nuances of this heartwarming film that offers a fresh perspective on the Christmas genre. JOIN Inspired Disorder +PLUS Today! InspiredDisorder.com/plus Membership Includes:Ray Taylor Show - Full Week Ad Free (Audio+Video)Live Painting ArchiveEarly Access to The Many FacesMember Only Discounts and DealsPodcast Back Catalogue (14 Shows - 618 Episodes)Ray Taylor's Personal BlogCreative WritingAsk Me AnythingDaily Podcast: Ray Taylor Show - InspiredDisorder.com/rts Daily Painting: The Many Faces - InspiredDisorder.com/tmf ALL links: InspiredDisorder.com/links Genres: Drama - Comedy
This week on Streaming Without A Paddle Andrew and Ted sat down to discuss, spoiler free, what they thought of the Peacock TV release of the Golden Globe nominated film "The Holdovers", starring Paul Giamatti, first-time feature actor Dominic Sessa, and Tony Award winning actress Da'Vine Joy Randolph. "The Holdovers" is about a smart but angry at life professor at an all boys prep / private school and a smart yet troubled teen student who are left in each others care and company at the school for Christmas break after the student's parents decide to have him stay at the school while they go on their honeymoon and a professor who draws the short stick. The two, through the course of a number events, strike a bond ultimately enriching their own lives as they find common ground.
The Holdovers: Movie Review from the Ray Taylor ShowShow topic: Join Ray Taylor for an insightful review of 'The Holdovers,' a 2023 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne. Written by David Hemingson and starring the talented Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa, this film is set in the backdrop of 1970 at a New England boarding school. The story unfolds around a cantankerous history teacher who finds himself in an unexpected situation, chaperoning a small group of students during Christmas break. These students, with nowhere else to go, bring unique challenges and revelations. Ray Taylor delves into the film's blend of humor and drama, the performances of its cast, and how 'The Holdovers' captures the essence of the holiday spirit in an unusual setting. Get ready to explore the nuances of this heartwarming film that offers a fresh perspective on the Christmas genre. JOIN Inspired Disorder +PLUS Today! InspiredDisorder.com/plus Membership Includes:Ray Taylor Show - Full Week Ad Free (Audio+Video)Live Painting ArchiveEarly Access to The Many FacesMember Only Discounts and DealsPodcast Back Catalogue (14 Shows - 618 Episodes)Ray Taylor's Personal BlogCreative WritingAsk Me AnythingDaily Podcast: Ray Taylor Show - InspiredDisorder.com/rts Daily Painting: The Many Faces - InspiredDisorder.com/tmf ALL links: InspiredDisorder.com/links Genres: Drama - Comedy
The Holdovers: Movie Review from the Ray Taylor ShowShow topic: Join Ray Taylor for an insightful review of 'The Holdovers,' a 2023 American Christmas comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne. Written by David Hemingson and starring the talented Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa, this film is set in the backdrop of 1970 at a New England boarding school. The story unfolds around a cantankerous history teacher who finds himself in an unexpected situation, chaperoning a small group of students during Christmas break. These students, with nowhere else to go, bring unique challenges and revelations. Ray Taylor delves into the film's blend of humor and drama, the performances of its cast, and how 'The Holdovers' captures the essence of the holiday spirit in an unusual setting. Get ready to explore the nuances of this heartwarming film that offers a fresh perspective on the Christmas genre. JOIN Inspired Disorder +PLUS Today! InspiredDisorder.com/plus Membership Includes:Ray Taylor Show - Full Week Ad Free (Audio+Video)Live Painting ArchiveEarly Access to The Many FacesMember Only Discounts and DealsPodcast Back Catalogue (14 Shows - 618 Episodes)Ray Taylor's Personal BlogCreative WritingAsk Me AnythingDaily Podcast: Ray Taylor Show - InspiredDisorder.com/rts Daily Painting: The Many Faces - InspiredDisorder.com/tmf ALL links: InspiredDisorder.com/links Genres: Drama - Comedy
"The Holdovers" had its world premiere at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival, where it received universal acclaim, with many claiming it to be Alexander Payne's best film since "Sideways." The film reunites him with that 2004 film's star Paul Giamatti in a role that has earned him Critics Choice and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor, while his co-star Da'Vine Joy Randolph has received the same nominations with both winning prizes from the National Board Of Review. The film also introduces the world to Dominic Sessa in his first film role, for which he's won a few breakout prizes this awards season and is nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Breakthrough Performance. Giamatti and the film's editor, Kevin Tent, were kind enough to spend time talking with me while Joy Randolph and Sessa spoke with Daniel Howat. Please be sure to listen to the interviews below and check out the film, which is now streaming on Peacock and is up for your consideration in all eligible categories at the 96th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chris and Taylor review the christmas comedy-drama film, The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson. Set in 1970, it follows a bad-tempered history teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go on Christmas break. The film stars Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston, Gillian Vigman and Tate Donovan. Follow us on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepotentialpodcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepotentialpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/thepotentialpodSupport us on Patreon:patreon.com/thepotentialpodcastThanks to our sponsor: BetterHelp BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp by going to https://betterhelp.com/potential ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Broadway, Film and TV star Da'Vine Joy Randolph joins Mase & Sue on the CULTURE POP PODCAST to discuss her Golden Globe-nominated role in Alexander Payne's warm and brilliantly written film, THE HOLDOVERS. We talk about her love of Turner Classic Movies, Bette Davis' inspiration for a specific character choice, the mutual trust between actor and director, working with Dominic Sessa in his first feature film, and the dynamic on set with Steve Martin and Martin Short in ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING. Plus, we talk about the Golden Globe nominations.
"A thoroughly refreshing glass of water." Those words from esteemed co-host Corrye, as the Chumps visit Barton Academy - an island of grief for three of our favorite characters of the movie year. A crowd-pleaser with heart, Paul Giamatti, newcomer Dominic Sessa, and rising star Da'Vine Joy Randolph are the best 1-2-3 punch since Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett. Sticking with this Celtics analogy, director Alexander Payne gets to be Rajon Rando - stringing together an ambience that's surely destined to be a powerhouse come Oscar night.
Jake flies solo to quickly talk about The Holdovers, starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa and directed by Alexander Payne.
De nieuwe Alexander Payne heet "The Holdovers" en er is -na een succesvolle samenwerking bij "Sideways"- weer een hoofdrol weggelegd voor Paul Giamatti. Naast Giamatti zijn Da'Vine Joy Randolph en de jonge Dominic Sessa de meest prominente cast leden en hun uiteenlopende karakters zitten in de film als overblijvers met elkaar opgescheept tijdens een kerstvakantie op een kostschool.Zoals altijd nemen we de technische aspecten van de film onder de loep, kijken we naar de performances van de cast en bespreken een eventuele diepere laag. We geven onze mening over wat we gezien hebben en deze hoor je hier, in weer een nieuwe aflevering van onze podcast. Enjoy!133 minuten82 metascoreTrailerIMDbRedactie: Don ZwaaneveldBedankt voor het luisteren!Volg @dononfilm op Instagram & LetterboxdWord Patron en krijg maandelijks exclusieve content!
On this episode, I spoke Oscar-nominated editor Kevin Tent, ACE about his work on The Holdovers. His Oscar nomination was for Alexander Payne's film The Descendants. He is also a 5 ACE Eddie nominee (1x winner for The Descendants). His latest project is The Holdovers, starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa.
Notre critique du film "Winter Break" réalisé par Alexander Payne avec Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa et Da'vine Joy Randolph.Abonnez-vous au podcast CINECAST sur la plateforme de votre choix : https://smartlink.ausha.co/cinecast --- Titre Winter Break Sortie France : 13 décembre 2023 Sortie Belgique : 20 décembre 2023Réalisé par Alexander PayneAvec : Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa et Da'vine Joy RandolphSynopsis : Hiver 1970 : M. Hunham est professeur d'histoire ancienne dans un prestigieux lycée d'enseignement privé pour garçons de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Pédant et bourru, il n'est apprécié ni de ses élèves ni de ses collègues. Alors que Noël approche, M. Hunham est prié de rester sur le campus pour surveiller la poignée de pensionnaires consignés sur place. Il n'en restera bientôt qu'un : Angus, un élève de 1ere aussi doué qu'insubordonné. Trop récemment endeuillée par la mort de son fils au Vietnam, Mary, la cuisinière de l'établissement, préfère rester à l'écart des fêtes. Elle vient compléter ce trio improbable. #Critique #CINECAST
GOBBLE GOBBLE? Back from a action packed October to a normal release cadance November! -- Movies of November Priscilla- dir. Sofia Coppola; Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes- dir. Francis Lawrence; Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis, Josh Andrés Rivera, Hunter Schafer, Peter Dinklage The Marvels- dir. Nia DaCosta; Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, Samuel L. Jackson Napoleon- dir. Ridley Scott; Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Rupert Everett Dream Scenario- dir. Kristoffer Borgli; Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Dylan Gelula The Holdovers- dir. Alexander Payne; Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain- Dir. Paul Briganti; Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall, Conan O'Brien Saltburn- dir. Emerald Fennell; Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Carey Mulligan Godzilla Minus One- dir. Takashi Yamazaki; Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Minami Hamabe, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Yuki Yamada, Saki Nakatani, Munetaka Aoki, Sakura Ando, Mio Tanaka, Yuya Endo, Kisuke Iida DECEMBER May December Silent Night Eileen The Boy and the Heron WONKAAAA The Zone of Interest American Fiction Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom The Iron Claw Anyone But You Migration Poor Things The Color Purple Ferrari --------------------------------------------------- iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/movies-are-reel/id1082173626 Google Play: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjIwMzkxNjE4OC9zb3VuZHMucnNz Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2VE15E5fS0ZWtESo9bUWhn?si=e983275eb550499c&nd=1 Jurge - twitter: twitter.com/jcruzalvarez26 Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/jcruzalvarez26/ Ryan- twitter: twitter.com/MrPibbOfficial Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/filmpiece/ Karrie - twitter: twitter.com/kar_elyles Letterboxed: letterboxd.com/karrie/
Greetings programs! This week, we tackle the latest capital-C content from Netflix in Leave The World Behind and then the first new collaboration between Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne in nearly twenty years, the 1970s and Christmas set The Holdovers.Join us!BONUS CONTENT: This week, our Patreon supporters can hear us talk about our favourite background jokes in movies, as well as our top three Ebenezer Scrooge portrayals. It only costs CAD 2$/ month to join our Patreon, and we'll love you forever if you do. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/december-17th-94865453SUPPORT: Patreon Ko-Fi EPISODE HOMEPAGE: Visit this episode's homepage for our ratings, all of our previous episodes and content, and JustWatch-powered links to where you can stream each of these movies. These links will update as availability changes, so make sure to check back often! Also, if you use these links, that will also help us keep the lightbulbs around Awesome Friday HQ lit.Link: https://awesomefriday.ca/2023/12/podcast-leave-the-world-behind-the-holdovers/CONNECT WITH US: Awesome Friday: https://awesomefriday.ca Matthew: https://stretched.ca/ Simon: https://temporarypen.com/ SHOW LINKS: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/awesome-friday/id480100293 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/18daf305-2c59-4718-bd5c-0dc393173353 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/show/2775782 Goodpods: https://goodpods.app.link/ulvugeHonjb Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hd2Vzb21lZnJpZGF5LnBvZG9tYXRpYy5jb20vcnNzMi54bWw IHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/85390621/ Overcast: https://overcast.fm/itunes480100293/the-awesome-friday-movie-podcast Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kwPQGeBvVFVtewkCbrbA9 Meanwhile, relax and enjoy your flight.
Coming to you guys by myself again tonight for a 2 part review! 1st up was the holdovers and then Wonka to close things out. Two movies that I enjoyed a lot. Spoiler free for the most part as well. So go check it out now and as always please remember to SHARE, SUBSCRIBE, like and review.
Oscar-nominated editor Kevin Tent, discusses with Jan Price his new film, "The Holdovers," starring Paul Giamatti!Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/AhKLpJmHhIgsi=mmniHE2Fn7esMYe9From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during the holiday break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
If you see one movie between now and Christmas Day, make it The Holdovers! We share our love for director Alexander Payne in this episode before snuggling in for a very cozy comedy starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa. Set in December of 1970, Giamatti plays a curmudgeonly teacher at a boarding school in New England. He is tasked with looking after the students who have to remain on campus for the holiday break for various reasons. Giamatti is a shoo-in for at least a Best Actor nomination in a hilarious role reminiscent of his great role in Sideways (2004). See this Christmas movie! With the whole family! Before Christmas Day if you can!
Christian and Devin review Alexander Payne's THE HOLDOVERS. The film was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival and follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. It stars Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa. The Holdovers releases exclusively in theatres October 27, 2023 in the United States by Focus Features,TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:Start / Housekeeping (00:18)The Holdovers Review (06:40)Final Thoughts and Ratings (22:53)Coming Up Next / Closing (26:05)'THE HOLDEROVER GRADES: Christian: 90/100Devin: 86/100Overall Score: 88/100Contact Film Optix Rate and Review us on Apple Podcast and Spotify on your podcast platform of choice! Email us at filmoptix@gmail.com Tweet at us @FilmOptix Follow us @Film Optix on Instagram Follow us on Letterboxd Visit our Website Thank you for listening!!!
Cade and Diane discuss two films starring Paul Giamatti and directed by Alexander Payne: Sideways (2004) and The Holdovers (2023). Watch the video version at: YouTube.com/@CadeThomas/streams Double Feature Movie Club is a weekly movie review show with a retro vibe. Two movies. Two hosts. One rambling conversation. Each film is our first time watching them. We often go off-topic. Sideways is a 2004 American comedy-drama road film directed by Alexander Payne and written by Jim Taylor and Payne. A film adaptation of Rex Pickett's 2004 novel of the same name, Sideways follows two men in their forties, Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti), a depressed teacher and unsuccessful writer, and Jack Cole (Thomas Haden Church), a past-his-prime actor, who take a week-long road trip to Santa Barbara County wine country to celebrate Jack's upcoming wedding. Sandra Oh and Virginia Madsen also star as women they encounter during their trip. The Holdovers is a 2023 American comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by David Hemingson, and starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa. Set in 1970, it follows a curmudgeonly history teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone the handful of students with nowhere to go over Christmas break.
Director: Alexander Payne Writers: David Hemingson Starring: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph Runtime: 2 Hour 13 Minutes Synopsis: Paul Giamatti stars in Alexander Payne's latest about the bond that forms between a strict professor and a belligerent student he's stuck supervising over the winter holiday at an elite boarding school. Barton men don't lie. This is just one of the many rules Professor Hunham (Paul Giamatti) takes much too seriously as he hands out poor grades at an elite boarding school in 1971. As he dismisses the politics that come along with educating the children of people in high places, he's punished by the headmaster who gives him a most undesirable assignment for the winter break: to stay at the school and supervise the students who are unable to go home. Hunham resolves to have the students suffer with him, forcing them to start studying next semester's curriculum ahead of time. Among them, 15-year-old Angus (Dominic Sessa), bright but belligerent, makes a ruckus. Teacher and student become foes, antagonizing one another and tiring themselves out, as Mary (Da'Vine Joy Randolph), the school cafeteria manager, observes from the sidelines, herself alone after recently losing her son in the Vietnam War. As the petulant pair succumb to the depressing truth that they've got little else but each other this holiday season, Professor Hunham starts to soften up and they begin to see themselves in one another. Giamatti gives a career-high performance as the risible teacher who delights in doling out punishment, while newcomer Sessa makes an immediate name for himself, revealing layers of complexity to his character's rebellious nature. With The Holdovers, director Alexander Payne (Downsizing, TIFF '17) makes a delicate point about how a first impression never tells the whole truth and shows that the pains and tragedies that feel specific to us actually make us a lot more alike than unalike. The Holdovers is one of those fun, throwback films that manages to remind us of one of those Christmas films from the 80's (set in the 70's) but still has more modern sensibilities. On the surface, it would look like your typical "Teacher stuck with a rebellious teenage and they bond and learn more about each other as their misadventures go on" but there's a lot more to The Holdovers. This is really a film about the masks people wear to prevent people from getting too close. The way that people sometimes retreat into their own heads in order to not confront those things that really trouble and scare them. The three main actors/actresses of The Holdovers also form a really great ensemble that plays extremely well off of each other. This is an example of the classic "Don't judge a book by its cover". None of the characters behave how you would think after first meeting them and that also adds to how enjoyable this film is. Paul Giamatti continues to show how he is such a versatile actor who can take on any challenge presented to him. Initially he comes off as just your stereotypical hardass of a teacher that believes in following the rules over everything but as the film goes on you start seeing there's much more to who he is and why he is the way he is. Dominic Sessa plays the spoiled, asshole kid to perfection but also the audience realizes fairly quickly there's a lot more to what is behind his behavior. It's not revealed until much later in the film and when it does, it's absolutely heartbreaking. The true glue that brings this film together is Da'Vine Joy Randolph. Lesser films would have made Mary's character an afterthought and not given her a solid arc. Instead, The Holdovers recognizes her importance to bridging the gap between Hunham and Agnus but also allows her to go on her own journey with grief and loss. The Holdovers is an enjoyable surprise that will definitely hit the right emotional buttons for the holidays. Listen as Kriss and the crew talk about The Holdovers.
Director: Alexander Payne Writers: David Hemingson Starring: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph Runtime: 2 Hour 13 Minutes Synopsis: Paul Giamatti stars in Alexander Payne's latest about the bond that forms between a strict professor and a belligerent student he's stuck supervising over the winter holiday at an elite boarding school. Barton men don't lie. This is just one of the many rules Professor Hunham (Paul Giamatti) takes much too seriously as he hands out poor grades at an elite boarding school in 1971. As he dismisses the politics that come along with educating the children of people in high places, he's punished by the headmaster who gives him a most undesirable assignment for the winter break: to stay at the school and supervise the students who are unable to go home. Hunham resolves to have the students suffer with him, forcing them to start studying next semester's curriculum ahead of time. Among them, 15-year-old Angus (Dominic Sessa), bright but belligerent, makes a ruckus. Teacher and student become foes, antagonizing one another and tiring themselves out, as Mary (Da'Vine Joy Randolph), the school cafeteria manager, observes from the sidelines, herself alone after recently losing her son in the Vietnam War. As the petulant pair succumb to the depressing truth that they've got little else but each other this holiday season, Professor Hunham starts to soften up and they begin to see themselves in one another. Giamatti gives a career-high performance as the risible teacher who delights in doling out punishment, while newcomer Sessa makes an immediate name for himself, revealing layers of complexity to his character's rebellious nature. With The Holdovers, director Alexander Payne (Downsizing, TIFF '17) makes a delicate point about how a first impression never tells the whole truth and shows that the pains and tragedies that feel specific to us actually make us a lot more alike than unalike. The Holdovers is one of those fun, throwback films that manages to remind us of one of those Christmas films from the 80's (set in the 70's) but still has more modern sensibilities. On the surface, it would look like your typical "Teacher stuck with a rebellious teenage and they bond and learn more about each other as their misadventures go on" but there's a lot more to The Holdovers. This is really a film about the masks people wear to prevent people from getting too close. The way that people sometimes retreat into their own heads in order to not confront those things that really trouble and scare them. The three main actors/actresses of The Holdovers also form a really great ensemble that plays extremely well off of each other. This is an example of the classic "Don't judge a book by its cover". None of the characters behave how you would think after first meeting them and that also adds to how enjoyable this film is. Paul Giamatti continues to show how he is such a versatile actor who can take on any challenge presented to him. Initially he comes off as just your stereotypical hardass of a teacher that believes in following the rules over everything but as the film goes on you start seeing there's much more to who he is and why he is the way he is. Dominic Sessa plays the spoiled, asshole kid to perfection but also the audience realizes fairly quickly there's a lot more to what is behind his behavior. It's not revealed until much later in the film and when it does, it's absolutely heartbreaking. The true glue that brings this film together is Da'Vine Joy Randolph. Lesser films would have made Mary's character an afterthought and not given her a solid arc. Instead, The Holdovers recognizes her importance to bridging the gap between Hunham and Agnus but also allows her to go on her own journey with grief and loss. The Holdovers is an enjoyable surprise that will definitely hit the right emotional buttons for the holidays. Listen as Kriss and the crew talk about The Holdovers.
Back To The Blockbuster kicks off our new limited series, “Merry Bingemas”, in honor of the holiday season. The first film being covered is The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne and written by David Hemingson. Starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa, the film is set in 1970 and follows a curmudgeonly history teacher at a New England boarding school who is forced to chaperone the handful of students with nowhere to go over Christmas break. In addition to discussing the film, the duo also talks Eli Roth's Thanksgiving getting a sequel, the entire main cast of The Black Phone returning for the sequel, and the first trailers for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire.
(MILDLY SPOILER-FREE, NO SIGNIFICANT DETAILS) IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR and I think it's obvious what this month's overarching theme will be and it might get a little offbeat but on Wednesdays (at least) we will be going to the movies for our picks and it looks like there is a lot of good looking flicks to be seen. Although…”Wonka”??? Not sure if we want to contribute to the “Fantastic Beasts” version of the Roald Dahl-verse and the new Aquaman looks like even more of a video game cut scene than the first one did though anything featuring an Octopus playing drums automatically gets an additional half point. To get our theater selections started off on the right foot we set out for an actual Christmas movie and we happened to have caught it in 35mm at our local independent movie theater. We're discussing Alexander Payne's brand new “70's” movie “The Holdovers” starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph & Dominic Sessa. An unlikable and over academic prep school professor must keep ward of a troublesome and emotionally isolated student during Christmas break while in the company of the school cook who is mourning the loss of a son. Thankfully, this wry story of solitude isn't some overtly saccharine dramatic piece. It's sweetness feels more realistic. How does Alexander Payne's latest hold up? Let us tell you all about it (WITH NO SIGNIFICANT DETAILS) unless you're some sort of penis cancer in human form. Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: MOVIEHUMPERS@gmail.com Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought
Alexander Payne's latest (following films like ELECTION, SIDEWAYS, and NEBRASKA) is a Christmas movie, sort of! But forget we said that... We're unwrapping THE HOLDOVERS! Plus, memorable dinner scenes from film history, a Hotline letter about therapy on screen, and a Christmas movie minute!What's GoodAlonso - Matt Rogers' Have You Heard of Christmas? On vinylDrea - paint by numbers canvasIfy - Y3000 Coca-ColaStaff PicksDrea - EileenAlonso - The DelinquentsIfy - WonkaSupport our sponsor!Museum of Flight's “The Flight Deck” PodcastListen at museumofflight.org/podcast or search “The Flight Deck” on your favorite podcatcher. New episode every Tuesday beginning October 24.Follow us on BlueSky, Twitter, Facebook, or InstagramWithDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeIfy NwadiweProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher
Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti team up in this comedy drama, which proves to be a charming and wise film. Also starring Da'Vine Joy Randolph and newcomer Dominic Sessa.
This week, the panel begins by reviewing The Curse, a cringe-worthy Showtime series co-produced by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie. Fielder and Emma Stone star as Asher and Whitney Siegel, a newlywed couple at the center of a reality HGTV show built on narcissism, gentrification, and lies. Then, the three jump into Alexander Payne's The Holdovers, which Dana describes as a “sadsack Christmas classic,” starring Paul Giamatti as a curmudgeonly misanthrope professor alongside newcomer Dominic Sessa and Da'Vine Joy Randolph. The three play misfits being held over at a prep school during the winter break of 1970. Finally, the trio is joined by Dwight Garner, book critic for The New York Times, to discuss his delightful new memoir, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel commemorates Jezebel, the now-shuttered women-focused news and cultural commentary site, and reflects on their relationships with media geared towards women overall. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements: Dana: Life on Our Planet on Netflix, a nature documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman that tells the four-billion-year story of life on Earth. It's perfect for at-home family viewing over the holidays. Julia: A hilarious bit Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone did on Jimmy Kimmel Live! while promoting The Curse. In response to a less-than-glowing review of his acting skills in The New York Times, Fielder shows up in-character as a nonchalant, totally not stilted bad boy alongside Stone's non-acted self. Stephen: “Camus on Tour,” an excellent tour de force essay by Vivian Gornick in The New York Review of Books, in which she covers Camus' Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Kat Hong. Hosts Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, Stephen Metcalf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, the panel begins by reviewing The Curse, a cringe-worthy Showtime series co-produced by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie. Fielder and Emma Stone star as Asher and Whitney Siegel, a newlywed couple at the center of a reality HGTV show built on narcissism, gentrification, and lies. Then, the three jump into Alexander Payne's The Holdovers, which Dana describes as a “sadsack Christmas classic,” starring Paul Giamatti as a curmudgeonly misanthrope professor alongside newcomer Dominic Sessa and Da'Vine Joy Randolph. The three play misfits being held over at a prep school during the winter break of 1970. Finally, the trio is joined by Dwight Garner, book critic for The New York Times, to discuss his delightful new memoir, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel commemorates Jezebel, the now-shuttered women-focused news and cultural commentary site, and reflects on their relationships with media geared towards women overall. Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements: Dana: Life on Our Planet on Netflix, a nature documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman that tells the four-billion-year story of life on Earth. It's perfect for at-home family viewing over the holidays. Julia: A hilarious bit Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone did on Jimmy Kimmel Live! while promoting The Curse. In response to a less-than-glowing review of his acting skills in The New York Times, Fielder shows up in-character as a nonchalant, totally not stilted bad boy alongside Stone's non-acted self. Stephen: “Camus on Tour,” an excellent tour de force essay by Vivian Gornick in The New York Review of Books, in which she covers Camus' Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Production assistance by Kat Hong. Hosts Dana Stevens, Julia Turner, Stephen Metcalf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're rapidly approaching awards season (our very first here at Culture Wave), and one of the movies you will be hearing about all the way to the Academy Awards most likely is Alexander Payne's, 'The Holdovers.' Zach, Liz & Darian return to discuss this perfect medley of drama and comedy that very well could be the best work of Payne's career. We discuss the amazing work from all three lead actors: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph & on-screen debut of Dominic Sessa. Please enjoy our review and full-length discussion on The Cinema Wave Podcast of 'The Holdovers!' #oscars #film #podcast #filmpodcast #theholdovers #movies #moviereview #filmreview #cinemawave #cinemaBe sure to follow us on: INSTAGRAM | @cinemawavemedia, @jerseysfinestpod & @_culturewavemedia TIKTOK | @cinemawavemediaCheck out our entertainment site with News, Reviews, Trailers & more! WEBSITE| cinemawavemedia.blogspot.com
A teacher, a cafeteria worker, and a student stay together at a boarding school over the holidays in Alexander Payne's latest film. Ashley, Matt and Rachel review The Holdovers in this episode.
The culture goes up, and the culture goes down, and the BFG Podcast covers it all. On the downward slope this week is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has suffered its first genuine bust with 'The Marvels.' The world is not entirely sure how to handle this phenomenon but host Neal Pollack and guest Scott Gold tackle it. They both agree that Iman Vellani is quite delightful as Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel, but the rest of the cast seems to be phoning it in. The cringe-inducing musical sequence in the middle does the movie no favors, though the end scene and the mid-credits sequence do point toward a better, more crowd-friendly MCU. This movie is probably more of a placeholder than a death knell.Neither Neal nor Stephen Garrett can get over a revelation that the main character in Alexander Payne's 'The Holdovers' "smells like fish." It's the most disgusting character detail in a movie in a long time. Both critics like the perforamances of Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa, but they found Paul Giamatti very grating, and the "realistic" 1970 setting of the movie too cute by half. A dissent from our two BFG professional critics!On the other hand, both Neal and Omar Gallaga love Nate Bargatze and Taylor Tomlinson, who in recent weeks have risen to the top of the comedy world. Skirting the verge of "family-friendly," both these comics are white and are from Red-tinged political zones, but both deliver a brand of humor that people across the political spectrum can enjoy. Maybe this is the actual way forward for popular entertainment. We could do much worse and we couldn't do much better.Enjoy the show!
Josh is joined by The Rewind's resident teacher, Josh Brown, to talk all about Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers." They discuss how Payne and screenwriter David Hemingson managed to avoid common cliches in telling a teach-student story, why they enjoy boarding school as a setting despite not ever having stepped food in one, the performances from Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and newcomer Dominic Sessa and much more!
Director Alexander Payne's new film The Holdovers, is set in the 1970s and tells the story of a grumpy ancient history instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who's forced to remain on campus during the Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of the students, an oddball troublemaker (Dominic Sessa), and the school's cafeteria lady (Da'Vine Joy Randolph), whose son was recently killed in Vietnam. We speak to screenwriter David Hemingson about getting a very unexpected call from Alexander Payne (which at first he thought was a prank!) asking him to write the screenplay after reading one of his original TV pilots. Hemingson talks about his journey to craft just the right characters for the story, how to make their arcs feel authentic and give them meaningful, emotional lives. “The movie is a love story. I wanted these people to fall in love and do right by each other. Different people, from very different backgrounds with different problems and histories but they find a way, almost impossibly, certainly improbably, to come together over this small period and fall in love with each other and kind of save each other. I want to believe that's possible,” says Hemingson. He also talks about bringing his own personal experience to the story even when it's emotionally challenging. “I need to get to the place where I am very heartbroken about what's happening on the page and really feeling it. There's an honesty to it,” he says. To go deeper into the screenplay, take a listen to the podcast.
On this episode, I spoke to the composer of The Holdovers, Mark Orton! He rejoins Alexander Payne after scoring the Academy Award-nominated film Nebraska. The Holdovers stars Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa. The critically acclaimed film showcases a 70s themed score using vintage instruments and techniques reflecting Orton's authentic approach to music and captures the true essence of the story. Available digitally NOW! The Holdovers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features classic songs by The Allman Brothers Band, The Temptations, The Swingle Singers and more. This compilation album was curated by director Alexander Payne with custom artwork by Nathan Carlson. The vinyl is available for pre-order now.
With the holidays rapidly approaching, films related to Thanksgiving and Christmas can an offer a touch of nostalgia while telling an emotional story. Think "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "A Christmas Story." This year, directory Alexander Payne ("Election," "Sideways," "Nebraska") brings us "The Holdovers" starring Paul Giamatti as teacher Paul Hunham, Dominic Sessa as student Angus Tully and Da'Vine Joy Randolph as school cook Mary Lamb. The story centers on students that can't go home for Christmas break and a teacher that is forced to chaperone the group. Co-host Bruce Miller gives his thoughts on the film, and we have interview clips with Payne, Randolph, Sessa, writer/producer David Hemingson and producer Mark Johnson. Miller also shares his thoughts on the Netflix film "Nyad," starring Annette Bening as endurance swimmer Diana Nyad and Jodie Foster as her coach, Bonnie Stoll. It tells the story of Nyad's swim through shark-infested waters between Havana, Cuba and Key West, Florida. The film is directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. The pair co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary "Free Solo." Where to watch and more coverage "The Holdovers" in theaters Nov. 10 "Nyad" on Netflix Contact us! We want to hear from you! Email questions to podcasts@lee.net and we'll answer your question on a future episode! About the show Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Headliner and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Holiday Films for Families Streamed and Screamed podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises Terry Lipshetz: Welcome, everyone, to another episode of Streamed and Screened an entertainment podcast about movies and TV from Lee Enterprises. I'm Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer at Lee and co-host of the program with Bruce Miller, editor of the Sioux City Journal and a longtime entertainment reporter. Bruce Miller: I'm a holdover. Terry Lipshetz: You're a holdover. You've been here forever. You are a holdover. Bruce Miller: I am. I remember when Alexander Payne wasn't making movies. How's that for a connection? But, yeah, we are getting into Thanksgiving season. So this means that you're going to get films that maybe the whole family would go to. Because, come on, what else is there to do over Thanksgiving holiday? Eat and go to the movies, right? Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. Bruce Miller: And so you're going to start seeing some of those ones that are a little more like Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Back in the day, that was a big kind of holiday. Let's go see it because it's entertaining, and that's what we'll be getting now. I think you'll be seeing some of those before the Christmas rush and then the Oscar run, so look for the fun ones. And one that I really loved was the Holdovers. That's the newest Alexander Payne film. It's set in 1970, and it's set at a private boys' school in the East Coast. And, apparently all kids didn't go home. Some had a reason. Their parents were off on a ski trip and they didn't want to take the kid home or they didn't have the ability to get them home or whatever. And so those kids were called the Holdovers. They stayed at school, and then as a result, they had to put up with whoever they threw in their face. There was usually a teacher who got punished to be with those kids because who wants to be at home during the holidays? Nobody. Terry Lipshetz: Nobody. Bruce Miller: So, the one who gets stuck, even though he did it the year before, is played by Paul Giamatti, and he plays an ancient history teacher that nobody likes. They just hate him. He gives them all F's. He thinks that they're lazy and they don't really live up to their expectations. And this is 1970. Remind you. And so the Kids that are left back think, oh, God, this is going to be just terrible. And he plans classes for them, exercise, situations for them. And then they have all the bad food that's left over, and the cook is there, and she is going to keep him occupied over the holidays when he isn't. So it's like the worst situation you could think of. And then a group of them gets the opportunity to go on a ski trip. Except one student, he's stuck at the school with the bad teacher and the cook. And so the three of them have what they call their holiday experience. Terry Lipshetz: Sounds almost like my college. I went to a smaller private university in New Jersey. so you couldn't stay over during the winter break. They closed the dorms. They basically kick you out unless you were basically stuck there because you were, let's say, a foreign exchange. Bruce Miller: Foreign students. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah, that was it. That was it. They were the holdovers, and they got to stay in the dorms through the holidays. But that was it. Bruce Miller: I never was a holdover. God, it was, like, icy as hell. And I would still force somebody to come and pick me up because I thought, the last thing I want to do is be stuck here. So I was good. I got out. But I can imagine it would be dreadful because you see this? And this was during my time. It's set during the. That's about my period. And you go, oh, my God. They have captured so many things that are so specific. They have a pinball machine. And, the young man who is stuck back wants to play the pinball machine. Now, what they did was they put their order, their dime, whatever it cost, on the top of the pinball machine. And then that meant they were next. And the kid gets in a big fight with this guy who says, no, you're not next. My friend is next. And you think, oh, that is. I remember that. Who would have thought that that would be a part of it? But they've done a great job of capturing all those little things, even down to the clothes. And Alexander Payne said that when he was casting, he was particularly looking for young actors who had the right haircuts because he didn't want them to look like they were contemporary. They needed those 70s haircuts. And they do have those 70s haircuts. Terry Lipshetz: Kind of the moppy. Bruce Miller: Yeah, it's not quite mullet yet, because that wasn't in style. Terry Lipshetz: That's more 80s. Bruce Miller: Yeah. This was just kind of a head of hair that's post-Vietnam, where you just wanted to grow your hair out in those days. Can I tell you? I had hair that was down to the back of my shoulders. I had long, long hair because I didn't want to cut it. And my dad would always make a huge stink about that hair. He says, when are you going to cut this hair? And so I pull my hair back and hide it in the collar of my shirt. And every night at dinner, he would pull the hair out and say, you got to cut this. That kind of sentiment. That hair was a big issue for people back in those days. Terry Lipshetz: It was, yeah. I've seen photos of my parents back in the. It was an interesting time with hairstyles. Now, in 1970, that would have made me, let's see, about negative five years old. So I wasn't present at that time. Bruce Miller: You were not breaking any of those rules? Terry Lipshetz: No, I was not. Bruce Miller: But I was edging into the college years. It was a different world, a much different world. And you notice that, too, how social media and the Internet and all that has changed so much here. The kids have to look things up. And do they want to look things up? No, they do not. I think that the attitudes are still the same. You still press up against authority. But it's fascinating to see how the friendships develop. And I don't know that I would ever have been friends with a teacher of mine, but when you're forced to do it, you become a little closer. Adversity breeds friendship. Maybe that's the moral of the story. Yeah. Terry Lipshetz: and it's diverse, too. You've got different people of different eras. Bruce Miller: Da'Vine Joy Randolph, she plays the head cook at the thing. And her son, you find out early on, her son went to school there. She agreed to be the cook at the school so that her son would be able to get a good education, which is what she was hoping for. And when the movie begins, you learn very quickly that her son has died. And so she's dealing with grief over the holidays. The young man is upset because his parents aren't taking him home. And the teacher is, not liked, as they openly. Nobody likes you, so why should we? So they all have a reason to fight for something. Terry Lipshetz: But ultimately, the odd couple comes together. I can only presume. Bruce Miller: I enjoyed it so much. It has been kind of testing the market throughout. Okay. And so it has had pre screenings or previews or whatever before it actually opens this week. So you can see the audience. It kind of had a little taste of what it was all about, how they react. And I think the reaction is good. It's heartfelt. And it reminded me a lot of Green book. Terry Lipshetz: Okay. Bruce Miller: Where kind of unlikely people are thrust together and how they build a friendship out of that. You remember that with, the driver and the musician. And the musician couldn't go in certain restaurants. He wasn't allowed in certain hotels. So there was definitely a different time. And you see that same reflection here in the holdovers. Terry Lipshetz: Interesting. So you mentioned at the top of this podcast, planes, trains, and automobiles, which is to me, one of my favorite movies of all time. And we did a whole episode on John Hughes movies to begin with quite a ways back. But that one in particular is one that it's almost like a tradition in the family. Got to throw planes, trains, and automobiles on. And it's in some ways because there's not a whole lot of Thanksgiving specific movies tend to get Christmas movies, not necessarily Thanksgiving, but it was that kind of story where Steve Martin's character, John Candy's character, are two very different people, but they're put in a very strange circumstance together, and they kind of come together. It almost feels like this movie takes some of that as well. Bruce Miller: Very much so. The other thing that's interesting is that those were people who wanted to get home, right. And here's ones who can't. There isn't a home, so they have to create a home, and they bring a tree, they do presents. It's very, touching how they kind of make a family, even though there isn't a family. All three of the actors are potential Oscar nominees. That's why. Terry Lipshetz: Wow. Do you see this becoming like a traditional holiday classic? The one that we pop on Christmas. Bruce Miller: Story, playing Dominic Sessa, who plays, the young man, has never acted in films before. Terry Lipshetz: Right. Bruce Miller: Found him at a school, and we're looking for somebody who kind of fit. Again, the hair was a big thing fit the identity that they were looking for. And they were blown away by how good he was at kind of capturing that attitude that's kind of there. And, you see it. He is easily the glue that holds this together and a really good young actor. I think someday we'll look back and we'll say that was his first film and look at how good he was. Terry Lipshetz: This film is directed by Alexander Payne, and he's, of course, known for doing a lot of kind of quirky movies like Nebraska. Bruce Miller: Yeah. Do you remember? Election was kind of the one that put him on the map, with Reese Witherspoon as that kind of dreadful girl who wanted to be student body know. She was determined. And the advisor to the student council, played by Matthew Roderick, did not want her to win and did whatever he could to try and derail her campaign by putting another student in her way. Chris Klein played that role. He shot it all in Omaha, which is where he's from. And it was very similar to this, where he went looking for real people to play these parts and look what happened to their careers. Reese Witherspoon, she won an Oscar. And Chris Klein had a long career. Look at American Pie. I mean, he has some pretty good credits behind. She wasn't necessarily, but the other ones that fill in the film. And if you go back and look at election, you'll see actor, young actors in that that have had lots of work. Terry Lipshetz: Right. Bruce Miller: It was supposed to be a two hander between Reese Witherspoon and, Matthew Broderick. And some of those other ones are making a real big splash in that first film. So I wouldn't doubt that we'll see the same thing happen with this one. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. And even like a movie like Sideways, there's another one where. And he did it with Paul Giamatti, and that was Paul Giamatti. He's done so many movies and he's always so good in what he does, but it almost took until sideways to really get him out there. Bruce Miller: He was a great character actor who had bit parts or small parts in films and then suddenly blew up. And he was in John Adams and he was in, sideways. And. Yeah, now he's kind of your go to. If you want one of those kind of erudite people that are in your film, we'll call Paul. Terry Lipshetz: I know you weren't able to get any interviews with this film, but through the magic of you and the promotion, I happen to have know just out of the box right here. So we're going to go now to, Alexander Payne, the director of the film. Alexander Payne: Christmas break is upon us. And every year there's a number of boys with nowhere to know. The kids from foreign countries and the ones with divorced parents and stuff like that. And this year there's a boy, he's a junior and kind, of a troublemaker, kind of troubled. Damaged and troubled, but a smart kid underneath. And, his mother calls him last minute to say she's widowed, has been widowed. She has just remarried and they want to use this Christmas vacation as their honeymoon. You understand, don't you, darling? Stanley's been working so hard. The teacher selected this year to stay behind with the boys is a very disliked, curmudgeonly, ancient history teacher, Paul Giamatti. Through a kind of Deus ex machina, script, device, all the other boys find somewhere else to go at some point. And it's down to just this teacher played by Paul Giamatti and this boy and the head cook at the school. She's a single mom, and her, son attended this very same school on a charity scholarship. But did not have the wherewithal to go to college and has just been killed in Vietnam. So this movie is about the adventures of these three kind of shipwrecked people during a very snowy two weeks in Massachusetts in 1970. I've been an admirer of school, movies, loneliness of the long distance Runner and if and Peter Weir's movie. And I had seen a companion of those films, a somewhat underknown French film by a great director, but, from 1935 or 36 called Merloose by Marcel Panol. And it had that same basic premise. I saw that ten or twelve years ago and it never left me. I thought, you know, that's a pretty good premise for a film. But I personally didn't have the wherewithal to actually, I didn't have the life experience of a private school and so forth. I'm from Omaha. Nor did I have really the discipline to go research it. But a pilot came my way, set in a prep school, and it was a very fine pilot. And I called up the writer and said, thank you for sending me this wonderful script. I don't want to read it. Would you consider taking on an idea of mine? And so it was David Hemingson. That's how David Hemingson, the fine screenwriter, came into my life. So, typically I've written my own scripts and certainly I was involved in rewriting this one and conceiving it. But David Hemingson really, did an outstanding job writing it. That's what attracted me to it. It sounds hyperbolic and I'm sure it is, but I just think Paul Giamatti is the greatest actor. There's nothing he can't do. From the moment I first met him when he auditioned for sideways for me going on 20 years ago, I thought, this guy can make even bad dialogue work and he can, no matter what the dialogue. I had him in Omaha, for a public interview, and I said, you know, Paul Giamani, you can really make bad dialogue work. I'll bet you could even read the phone book. Like they say, read the phone book and make it compelling. And he laughed. And I leaned over and I pulled out the Omaha phone book and I handed it to him. I said, would you please just open up to a page? He started reading it and brought the house down. That's why I like Paul Giamatti. And he's just a lovely guy, brilliant guy, most well-read human I know and, a delight to work with. Terry Lipshetz: Up next, let's hear from Da'Vine Joy Randolph about her role. In this film. Da'Vine Joy Randolph: It's wonderful working with Paul Giamatti. He has such character as a human being, but also with what he brings to the table. And, he's so great because, know, when you work with actors, those who you really revere, for being so talented, can be very serious sometimes and stuffy. And, what is so amazing, and I think speaks even more to his talent is that he's able to snap in and out of the character. It's very seamless. But I love right before they say action, I'll peek a look, and you'll see him just, like, morph and fall into place into his character. Dominic is quite special, for having never done it before. I would say what's more impressive, even outside of his talent, which is quite natural and just very present, and non-stereotypical, I don't know if I could have done it to play this hurt, damaged teenager. Right. And it not just be this one dimensional screaming kid every 5 seconds. He's really found, the nuances, to all of it. But I would say what I'm the most impressed with is the human being that he is. He's so kind and gentle and, very intelligent. And there's an old soul about him where it feels as if he's been here before. You can tell there's a real desire to learn this industry and how things work, and he's very quick. I remember in the very beginning when we were just doing table reads, and we still had at least two, if not three weeks before filming, he was already off book. I was not off book, so I was very impressed. We're just seeing two, three individuals, which I wonder, if they weren't, under these circumstances, if they would have had the opportunity to really get to know one another and to be an unpredicted vessel of support for one another. And I think what's beautiful about that is, in this movie, in a way, it transcends ageism, racism, genDer, and that these three individuals, due to the loss and pain that they have, it's like sometimes when you've hit rock bottom, you're open to anything to seek relief wherever you can. Terry Lipshetz: We also have another star from the film, Dominic Cessa, talking about what turned into his first major film appearance. Dominic Sessa: I went in for my first audition, and, I was pretty relaxed because I wasn't expecting much out of it. And they called me back later that day, and I did some more reading. And, eventually Alexander came to my school to come meet me and audition, with him. And yeah, for the next two months it was a lot of just touch, and go email, Zoom calls and all that stuff. And by the time I had my last audition, I didn't know it was my last audition. I thought it was going to know do that two weeks later for the next one. But we sat there and it was me, Paul and Alexander on a Zoom call. And we just read the whole script through. And Paul would read the parts, know, in a scene where I was in, but he wasn't in. I would read parts for him in other scenes and by the end I got the role that day. So, yeah, it was really surreal and exciting and didn't really know what to think or what to expect. But, it was nice. The biggest challenge for me, working on a film for the first time would be, the turnaround on notes, personally, because I've done a lot of live theater before. It's all I've done before is the shows at my school. And we have after school, like two, three hour rehearsals. And you receive your notes at the end and you have your journal and you can go back to your room and internalize them and think about them for the next rehearsal or the show or whatever's coming. But in this, it's really a matter of coming in, knowing your lines and not really knowing. Maybe having an idea of how the scene may pan out, but not having the clarity that you might have in a theater setting. So, yeah, I mean, that was the hard, that's the hardest part for me, really doing this the first time doing something, receiving a note and then okay, rolling, go. So, yeah, for me, but I think I've adjusted pretty well to it. And obviously I have a lot of people around me who have been helping me prepare for that sort of thing. Being in a film with Alexander and working on one of his movies, it's incredible working with him personally. Having, the director who's sitting right there at the camera and sitting right next to you and comes up to you after every take and is in your ear. You can feel his presence and it's comforting in that sense. But I think. I don't know, outside of that, he just attracts a lot of professionalism to his movies and his work. I think, just him being a part of it. Everyone around him, sort of is extra professional and is extra hard at work and is really on top of it and more so excited about working on it because of the type of person he is. My character, Angus Tully, say, definitely very damaged kid. He's been through a lot. Yeah. Being at a boarding school, I can understand, how heartbreaking that would be to be ready for break and then have your own parents tell you that you can't come home for Christmas. I feel like, for him, he's got a lot of these, things in the past that have happened to him and, these experiences, obviously, with his father and his mother and his mother's boyfriend. And it's not explicitly said what goes on. But you can sort of understand that there's a broken family dynamic there that's going on behind the scenes for him. And yeah, I think that really comes out with his character and his daringness to say some of the things he says and to pull off some of the things he tries to pull off. But at the same time charming and innocent. And it's one of those people you love to hate because you love them. Terry Lipshetz: Up next, we have writer producer David Hemingson. David Hemingson: Alexander read a pilot that I wrote about four years ago that, was set in a prep school in 1980. And he kind of called me up out of the blue and having read it and was like, I love this pilot. And I was like, incredibly flattered because he's like a personal hero of mine, he's a brilliant director. So I was like, blown away. And then he said, but I don't really do TV. But I have this feature I want to do that's set in that world in 1970. I said, okay, sure. And I said, what is he? Well, basically I really want to do this sort of optically challenged, kind of odiferous professor, that gets stuck, at a prep school, over Christmas break, 1970 to 71, with a group of students, one of whom has sort of been stranded by his family, most definitely. And this relationship kind of evolves over the course of the movie. And so that was sort of. The genesis of the whole thing. He's a brilliant, brilliant director. And I kind of feel like I went to film school on Alexander's back in that he would make these references. He'd, want something kind of tonally or visually or he'd kind of want a narrative moment that as opposed to try to unpack it verbally, he'd just be like, John Garfield. All right, Michael Curtis pointed overturn 1950, midpoint. Forward click. Like what? Hello? And I'd have to figure out, oh, okay. He wants sort of tonally, this kind of thing. He wants to be able to, evoke certain moods, and I think for him, it's got to be the organic evolution of the characters over the course of the narrative. And so I think the reason he doesn't get specific in terms of distinct turns he wants is because he wants me to find it and then for him to reflect upon it, I mean, that's been our working relationship, and I hope to God it continues for many, many decades to come, because I would kill to work with him again. I think he's a brilliant guy. We're so blessed. I mean, Alexander can cast. I mean, he topped the bottom. The actors in this show are amazing. I love my holders. I love all those kids. Those kids are all amazing, and funny and genuine and real. I think reality is sort of one of the hallmarks of an. You know, it just feels real, and it's heightened. And he takes you on a journey, and there's a fun narrative. I mean, you have a good time. And I think that's one of his imperatives. Like, he wants people to be entertained, but he wants people to be entertained by the human comedy, by the reality of it, by the landscape of people's souls. Like, he wants you to take that journey. And that's kind of what we do. In this movie, I think. Terry Lipshetz: And now let's hear from producer Mark Johnson. Mark Johnson: I think it was very much a story about family. It's a very clever script. It's deceptive. It's deceptive. And then it's about much more than you would think at first. And it's also extremely funny. And for me, as a, time Alexander Payne Fan, I think it is arguably his most emotional movie to take what he does with his characters, sort of, the uniqueness of his characters and to put them in this situation, it was an undeniable script. Paul Giamatti is one of those wonderful actors, is really a chameleon. And he can play any number of people. So we've seen him a bunch of movies and television shows, but I don't know that I've ever seen Paul Giamatti play, the same character twice. And so he is somebody who can both put you off and yet bring you in at the same time. Dominic Cessa, who plays Angus. This is his first movie. He had been a drama student or in school, in boy school, but, didn't have an agent, didn't have a manager. We had this wonderful casting director, Susan Shopmaker, who decided to go out and find a discovery. And one of the smart places she went was the private boys school's drama department and say, all right, who do you have? Who do you offer up? And that's how Dominic came in. He didn't come in through any orthodox means. It was really from out of nowhere. And I don't know what the number is. She probably saw 600, 700 boys for this part. And Dominic, early on, we said, well, wait a minute. This is somebody to pay attention to. And Alexander put him through the paces. He had him, sort of try out and test a number of times. And finally he tested with Paul, Giamatti. And I think Alexander, Paul, all the rest of us said, no, this is the guy. I think Dominic's a good choice to play this part because he has no tricks. He's a very honest actor. He's playing it as honestly as he can. And consequently, he's completely believable. I never, in looking at the finished film and quite frankly, in all the dailies, I don't see any false moments. I don't see him at some point pretending to be something. He always seems to be that divine. Mark Johnson: Joy Randolph is an actress who's been around for a while. That makes it sound like she's been doing it for years. She's just somebody who is doing features and television right now at, quite a clip. And the interesting thing is she normally plays a comedic character. And not that she's very funny in the holdovers, but I wouldn't describe her character as Mary, lamb, as somebody who's comedic. She actually has quite a, quite amount of sorrow in her. And, is a mother who's gone through a real tragedy. We knew she had the acting chops not just because she'd gone to the Yale School of drama. But as soon as we tested her, it was clear that she knew how to play this character. And, it was great to watch her because as an actress, she discovered who Mary Lamb was. She started at one place and built the character. And you could see her do it. And she ended up with an accent that was quite original to divine, but also quite true to where her character came from. Terry Lipshetz: All right, Bruce. So we had an. Bruce Miller: You know, I got a chance to talk to Alexander Payne and David Hemingson and also some of the, behind the scenes people about this. It's based sort of, on the writer's life, sort of. It was not written by Alexander Payne, just directed by him. And he kind of understood the sensibility of this, but there is a tie. And if you look at this on a shelf, there is a statue that was also in sideways. And so it's one of those little spoiler things. If you look, it's on a shelf in, I believe it's Paul Giamatti's office. And you'll also remember that it was in sideways if you look very carefully. They had one hell of a time trying to find enough blazers that were from the 70s for all the boys in the film. Terry Lipshetz: Double knit only goes so far. Bruce Miller: A big challenge. Yeah, they have a big challenge. And so they look the right way. Yeah. So for them, a lot of them have worked with Alexander Payne for a number of films, and they kind of know his shorthand and what he's looking for, so they can anticipate what a potential problem might be or what might be looming. Wow. Terry Lipshetz: Good stuff. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to this. It wasn't really on my radar until I saw it was probably during the summer. One of the movies I saw at least had a trailer to it. It looked pretty interesting, but I wasn't sure. Is this going to be good? Isn't it? But now that you're singing its praises. Bruce Miller: Watch the ads for it, because the ads are done in 70s style. Terry Lipshetz: Okay. Bruce Miller: See them? It's like, is this an old film that they're just throwing up whenever you see those on TCM? Oh, look at the trailers they used to do for these things. Well, they want it to look like that so it looks like the 70s. So you get that whole vibey feeling. And there's one shot in the film that reminds me. Exactly. Of the graduate. Exactly. And you'll see that shorthand that he uses, and you'll think, yes, I get what you're. Gail. I see it. I understand what's happening here. There's another one I'd like to talk about is called Nyad. Okay. And this is going to be one of those ones that you'll hear the names bandied about for acting prizes. Annette Benning plays Diana Nyad. If you remember her, she was a long distance swimmer who wanted to swim from Cuba to Florida. And, everybody said, oh, you're crazy. You can't do it. You're in your 60s. You're not going to be able to do this. And she was determined that she needed to make her mark, so she got a crew together and tried it and failed. And she tried it again and failed. And she tried it again and failed. And you think after this many times, give up. It's not going to happen. But you see in the film, which will be on Netflix, the kind of drive and fortitude she had and determination, and a lot of that is fueled by her best friend, who serves as kind of the coach, so that she's in the boat while Diana is swimming by the side of the boat, and she's, like, feeding her, giving her any kind of, if she gets sick, if she needs medicine, hydrating her, and then when she starts to kind of wane, she's giving her those pep talks. And, Jodie Foster plays that role, and Jodie is. Where has she been all these years? It's like, let's get back to work. I want to give her that kind of a pep talk because she steals the film right out from underneath. Annette Benning. Fascinating, fascinating partnership. And the film was directed by the people behind Free Solo, if you remember free solo. it was about the mountain climber. Terry Lipshetz: Right. Bruce Miller: Won the Oscar for Best documentary. Yeah. Now, they're trying, the same kind of feel, but with a fictional film or dramatization. Yeah. With actors. And they do take, risks, and they also do take some liberties, with the reality of the Diana Nyad story, but they still are able to capture those beats that you're looking for. It's kind of fascinating to see how they can make swimming really interesting, because when you're just watching somebody swim laps near the side of a boat, are you interested? Do you care? You got to give it to Ned Benning for just being able to do the swimming that you need to do to pretend like you're falling. Diana, Nyad, is not a person that you could hug. I really do not think she's embraceable, even though she has that drive that you see in a lot of athletes. But, boy, Annette Benning captures that aspect really well. You think, why would I work with you? I don't want to do anything with you if you're going to be this kind of obnoxious and mean and kind of self-centered. Terry Lipshetz: Sure. Bruce Miller: And yet it works. And at the end of the film, they do show you actual footage, of her. And, man, she captures her. She's right there. Terry Lipshetz: Now, was this film mostly in the water, then? Bruce Miller: If there's a lot in the water, could it be in a pool? It could have been in a pool, because a lot of the scenes take place at night, and you realize that they had to worry about sharks because she did not want to be in a shark cage. She didn't feel that was bare. But there was a red light that apparently sharks know this for the future, if you need this. Terry Lipshetz: Okay. Bruce Miller: Sharks do not come near red light. They somehow see that as a warning to them. And so this red light kind of helped guide her along where they were going, but it also kept the, sharks away. Terry Lipshetz: Yeah. The most knowledge I have about avoiding sharks comes from the 1960s, Adam west classic Batman, the movie Shark, where he used Bad shark repellent. Bruce Miller: And Jaws. Terry Lipshetz: Yes. Bruce Miller: Jaws taught us so much about sharks. Were you really scared of sharks before Jaws? No, it was just another fish in the ocean. But now they can get a sharknado going like nobody's business. Right? Dominic Sessa: Yeah. Terry Lipshetz: Now, how does this film stack up to a film like Free Solo, which is a documentary? Because I always find it fascinating when you get, like, you take Peter Jackson, for instance, who's known for Lord of the Rings and all these big epics, and then he goes and directs a documentary about the Beatles. Bruce Miller: The thing that was so surprising about free solo was the cinematography. They were up on the mountains with him and the idea that they were able to get some of that stuff. Well, I got to rethink this. If I can't do it with the telephoto lens, I don't think I'm going up there. But I think that was what was so remarkable. Yes. his story, Alex Honnold, I think it is, his story is remarkable, but also remarkable is the idea that people would follow him, shoot his trek, and not get, you know, anytime. Terry Lipshetz: I see those mountain movies like that, whether it's mountain climbing or scaling Everest or going deep into the wilderness, I'm thinking to myself, you know, what if I'm the director of this film, my first hire is a really good second unit director. And you're going to go take care of these? I'm going to just handle. Bruce Miller: Yeah, I'll do from the ground. Terry Lipshetz: We'll be. Bruce Miller: Yeah, I think they do a great job of kind of making you feel that claustrophobia in the water. But because they're not dealing with huge visuals like they were before, that becomes, a different challenge. But you feel like you're in the water with her. So I guess that's the goal. But I don't know, do they want to do this? Is this the goal? Or maybe it was just one of those athlete films that they hadn't tried, and so that was the challenge for them. Terry Lipshetz: Well, it sounds good. It sounds like an interesting one. I'm not sure. I'm going to race out to the theaters to see it. But at the very least, it might be one where as soon as it hits streaming on. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Anything else of note coming up is, Bruce Miller: Can I tell you what I'm going to tease? What? Maybe we'll talk about next week. Terry Lipshetz: Okay. Bruce Miller: And that's Fargo. Terry Lipshetz: Oh, yes. Bruce Miller: Fargo is coming. And Fargo, we are not holding off with anything, but I'm going to talk to people that you wouldn't necessarily talk to again. We're doing this because we don't have the access to the actors because of the actor strike, which, knock on wood, should be ending soon, we hope. Terry Lipshetz: Please. Bruce Miller: But I'm hoping to talk to the special effects and makeup people and also the costume people and how they are able to pull off, because this has a lot of those special effects that you're going to go, wow, I can't believe it. And it's very home alone, taken to extremes and scary. Okay, so that's next week. Fargo. Alexander Payne: Fargo. Terry Lipshetz: I can't wait. There's the two shows that I've been waiting for the most recently, Fargo. And then also true Detective, which is. Coming back soon on. Bruce Miller: Well, we'll be there, hopefully, and we'll get to talk to real people. Terry Lipshetz: Hopefully. That's all we can hope for. All right, Bruce, thanks again for another great episode. And we will be back again next week. Bruce Miller: Be a holdover next week.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ronald Young Jr. reviews The HoldoversRYJ briefly alludes to the theme of next year's holiday-themed live event. RYJ - 4 of 5 stars Follow me on IG, Threads,Twitter, and TikTok - @ohitsbigronAvailable in TheatersStarring Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da' Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Gillian Vigman, and Tate DonovanWritten by David HemingsonDirected by Alexander PayneFor more information about The Holdovers check out this linkSupport Leaving the Theater on Patreon using this link
In the funny, melancholic and weirdly moving new film, The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti plays a widely disliked teacher at a prestigious New England boarding school in 1970. He's forced to look after the boys who can't go home for the Christmas break, including one kid (Dominic Sessa) who's a particular pain in the butt. The film is directed by Alexander Payne, and also stars Da'Vine Joy Randolph as the school cook, who's spending the first Christmas without her son.Subscribe to Pop Culture Happy Hour Plus at plus.npr.org/happyhour
THE HOLDOVERS PODCASTGet ready to embark on a journey as we delve into the heart of a movie that takes place in the 1970s, "The Holdovers." Together we'll dissect the film and find out why it's more than just a period piece. We've got the inside scoop straight from writer and producer David Hemingson and director Alexander Payne "THE DESCENDANTS, SIDEWAYS". We'll hear tales of overcoming creative hurdles, organic character development, and the formation of an unexpected bond between a grumpy professor, a troubled teen, and a single mother set during a Christmas vacation in Massachusetts.Venture into the world of Dominic Sessa as we examine his transition from theater to film. We'll discuss the unique challenges he faced and learn about the audition process. There's also an inside look at a car scene - one filled with banter and an intense focus on character development. Join us as we explore the metamorphosis of Paul Giamatti's "CINDERELLA MAN, BILLIONS" acting prowess and how he seamlessly slips into his characters.Finally, we'll take a look at the theme of quiet heroism and sacrifice for the greater good that the film portrays. We'll talk about the impact of director Alexander Payne and how he brought out the best in his actors. Prepare for an in-depth look at the unique elements of "The Holdovers," and don't forget - we'll be rounding off with a review of the movie. So, stay tuned and join our global audience. We promise it's going to be a memorable ride into the world of "The Holdovers".
For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Ema Sasic, Dan Bayer & Daniel Howat. Today, we are reviewing the newest film from Academy Award-winner Alexander Payne, "The Holdovers," starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and newcomer Dominic Sessa. The Christmas comedy-drama had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, where many hailed it as a return to form for Payne and his best film since the 2004 Oscar-winning "Sideways." Reuniting for the first time with Paul Giamatti since that film's release, will this one find similar success with the Academy? Tune in as we discuss its awards potential, characters, writing, performances, 1970s cinematic aesthetic, and more in our review. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com For more about Regal Unlimited and the Slasher Sale - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/bjs99t0x New subscribers can use code REGALNBP23 for 10% off of Regal Unlimited for the first 3 months Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture
Alexander Payne has directed a new film, a comedic drama called “The Holdovers,” starring Paul Giamatti. Payne has made eight feature films, including Election, Sideways, The Descendants, About Schmidt and Nebraska. His movies have been nominated for a total of nineteen Oscars, including three times each for Best Picture and Best Director. He has won two Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay, and two of his films have won the Golden Globe for Best Picture. Joining Larry on FilmWeek, Payne discusses his new feature, how he cast one of the standout stars of the film Dominic Sessa who had no prior professional acting experience, and why the topic of the film resonated with him.
Daniel, Shahbaz & Anthony review Alexander Payne's THE HOLDOVERS. The film was an official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival and follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. It stars Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Dominic Sessa. The Holdovers releases exclusively in theatres October 27, 2023 in the United States by Focus Features, November 3, 2023 in Toronto, and Nationwide in Canada November 10, 2023 by Universal Pictures. Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast now on all podcast feeds, YouTube, and TheMoviePodcast.ca Get a whole month of great cinema FREE on MUBI: mubi.com/themoviepodcast Contact: hello@themoviepodcast.ca FOLLOW US Daniel on X, Instagram, Rotten Tomatoes, and Letterboxd Shahbaz on X, Instagram, Rotten Tomatoes, and Letterboxd Anthony on X, Instagram, Rotten Tomatoes, and Letterboxd The Movie Podcast on YouTube, X, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and Rotten Tomatoes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's 'Day 8' of @EchoChamberFP https://www.instagram.com/echochamberfp/ coverage of the 67th BFI London Film Festival (4th to 15th October 2023)! We have three films today, the first is form the 'First Feature Competition' strand, then there are two 'Gala' features that come with a lot of buzz!!! Today we have: Sky Peals Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/WROH5A2IZsI Venice Film Festival: 4th September 2023 BFI London Film Festival Film Strand: First Feature Competition Wednesday, 11th 2023 at 17:50pm BFI Southbank Friday, 13th 2023 at 20:40pm BFI Southbank Director: Moin Hussain Cast: Faraz Ayub, Natalie Gavin, Claire Rushbrook, Simon Nagra, Steve Oram, Jeff Mirza, Bill Fellows, Adrian Hood, Maizie Wickson, Alan Cammish, Teresa Mondol, Junaid Arshad, Christian Foster, Vicki Hackett, Lynne Payne, Kyle O'Gara, Bryony Miller, Bhasker Patel Credit: Bankside Films, Escape Films, Film4 Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi Running Time: 91 min Cert: 15 ------------ The Holdovers Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/Cr1Lc8FDnzA 50th Telluride Film Festival: 31st August 2023 BFI London Film Festival Film Strand: Galas Wednesday, 11th, 2023 at 21:00pm Royal Festival Hall Thursday, 12th, 2023 at 11:00am Royal Festival Hall Ticket Info: Here. https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=holdovers-lff23 USA Theatrical Release Date: 10th November 2023 UK Theatrical Release Date: 19th January 2024 Director: Alexander Payne Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Michael Provost, Andrew Garman, Naheem Garcia, Stephen Thorne, Gillian Vigman, Tate Donovan, Darby Lee-Stack, Bill Mootos, Dustin Tucker, Juanita Pearl Credit: Miramax, Gran Via, Focus Features, Universal Pictures International Genre: Comedy, Drama Running Time: 133 min Cert: 18 Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/bAXd27wVpIc?si=KmR-HnOOr5zYRMNt Website: Here. https://www.universalpictures.co.uk/micro/holdovers ------------ The Book of Clarence Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/HpXyBCyhU4w BFI London Film Festival Film Strand: Galas Wednesday, 11th, 2023 at 17:45pm (World Premiere) Royal Festival Hall Thursday, 12th, 2023 at 14:30pm Royal Festival Hall Saturday, 14th, 2023 at 12:30pm Prince Charles Cinema Ticket Info: Here. https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=book-of-clarence-lff23 Theatrical Release Date: 12th January 2024 Director: Jeymes Samuel Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, Omar Sy, Anna Diop, RJ Cyler, David Oyelowo, Micheal Ward, Alfre Woodard, Teyana Taylor, Caleb McLaughlin, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Babs Olusanmokun, Nicholas Pinnock, Chase Dillon, Tom Glynn-Carney, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor Credit: Legendary Entertainment, Westbrook Studios, Sony Pictures Releasing, TriStar Pictures Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History Running Time: 136 min Cert: 18 Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/VWYP7D-lpU0?si=dv-iuDBGuPxX4z_v Website: Here. https://www.thebookofclarence.movie/ X: @BookofClarence https://twitter.com/BookofClarence Facebook: Here. https://www.facebook.com/BookofClarence Instagram: @bookofclarence https://www.instagram.com/bookofclarence/?img_index=1 ------------ *(Music) 'Wake Up' by Arcade Fire - 2004 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eftv/message
It's OSCARS season and The Cine-Files aka Steve Morris and John Rocha are celebrating it by launching a special series titled THE TEN DAYS OF OSCARS where they revisit one Best Picture nominee a day. Today, they discuss THE HOLDOVERS from director ALEXANDER PAYNE starring PAUL GIAMATTI, DOMiNIC SESSA, DA'VINE JOY RANDOLPH. It's nominated for 5 Academy Awards and is streaming now on Peacock!#theholdovers #alexanderpayne #paulgiamattiIf you haven't seen this incredible film you can buy or stream it right here.https://amzn.to/3wFaI8bDon't forget to support The Cine-Files at https://www.patreon.com/TheCineFiles and purchase any film we feature at https://www.cine-files.netFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCineFiles...John @therochasaysSteve @srmorrisThe Cine-FilesTwitter @cine_filesInstagram thecinefilespodcastOur Sponsors:* Check out Vessi: https://vessi.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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