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Hunham sacrifices his career for Tully, going against his "Barton men don't lie" mantra to protect his student's future. Hunham's personal transformation is evident as he forms a bond with Tully and recognizes his potential, leading to his decision to lie for him. Mary Lamb's story is essential in highlighting the stakes for Tully's future, as Curtis Lamb was the only Barton boy to go to Vietnam, making it crucial for Hunham to protect him.

At the end of The Holdovers, Professor Paul Hunham lies to Dr. Woodrup and Angus Tully's parents to stop him from being sent to a military academy. While Hunham and Tully initially had an adversarial relationship, they formed a bond over their Christmas holiday together, changing both of them forever. The film is directed by Alexander Payne from a script by David Hemingson and The Holdovers cast consists of excellent performances from Paul Giamatti,...

Campaign poster Paul Metzler You BET-zler!! in Alexander Payne’s Election, starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, designed by Nate Carlson

In the second instalment with Alexander Payne’s longtime 'secret weapon' graphic designer Nate Carlson, we discuss their latest multiple award-winning collaboration The Holdovers’ stained glass windows and memorial inscriptions in the school chapel, a running theme of pharmacies and prescription bottles, the mastery of punctuation humour from Election to Marcus Aurelius, the art of combining the pre-existing with the new, and the family polaroid.

Nate Carlson on Alexander Payne: “He always likes to put those little hidden gems in there and I am certainly open to accommodate.”

The Holdovers (screenplay by David Hemingson), stars Golden Globe winner Paul Giamatti, Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA winner Da'Vine Joy Randolph and BAFTA Best Supporting Actor nominee Dominic Sessa and has a terrific supporting cast led by Carrie Preston with Brady Hepner,...

The nominations for the 96th Oscars revealed Tuesday included a diverse mix of Best Picture contenders, from box office blockbusters and festival favorites to sweeping streamer epics and indie darlings.

Deadline reviewed all 10 of the nominees, beginning with Past Lives, when it captured all the Sundance buzz in January; followed by Killers of the Flower Moon, eventual Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest in May at Cannes; tracking the Barbenheimer duo of Barbie and Oppenheimer dominating the summer box office; and seeing Poor Things, Maestro, The Holdovers and American Fiction during the fall festival whoosh of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.

Click on the titles to read the Deadline critics’ full reviews of the films that will be vying for the marquee statuette in March.

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Distributor: Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios

Producers: Ben LeClair,...

Alexander Payne’s Golden Globe-nominated The Holdovers, costumes by Wendy Chuck, stars Dominic Sessa, Paul Giamatti (Golden Globe nomination), and Da'Vine Joy Randolph (Golden Globe nomination)

In the first installment with Wendy Chuck, Alexander Payne’s longtime, brilliant costume designer, we discussed her most recent Payne film, the intricately layered The Holdovers (screenplay by David Hemingson), dressing the stars Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, and Da'Vine Joy Randolph and the terrific supporting cast of Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Michael Provost, Naheem Garcia, Darby Lee-Stack, Andrew Garman, Stephen Thorne, and Gillian Vigman.

Wendy Chuck with Anne-Katrin Titze on Alexander Payne: “You know Alexander, he wants everything as authentic as it possibly can be.”

We started out with the costumes for Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon (Jacqueline West), Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things (Holly Waddington), and Bradley Cooper’s Maestro (Mark Bridges). We also touched upon.

Every Christmas movie has to have its scrooge. In Alexander Payne’s holiday-set dramedy The Holdovers, the curmudgeon is Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), a long-time teacher at Barton Academy, an elite Massachusetts boarding school. Paul treats the affluent students in his ancient history class with contempt, gleefully terrorizing them with poor grades in order to trip up their otherwise smooth rides to fancy colleges. He’s the kind of teacher who flunks almost everyone on their end-of-semester exam and then assigns the class extra homework over the holidays as prep for yet another exam as soon as they get back. Bah humbug, indeed.

It’s not just the students at Barton who loathe Paul. So does the school’s administration. Hence Paul being saddled with holdover duty over the winter break—that is, to supervise any students who, for whatever reason, can’t go on lavish vacations like the rest of their peers,...

The Telliride Film Festival began August 31 with a lineup for the Rockies event’s 50th edition that includes world premieres of Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers (Focus Features), Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn (Amazon) and Free Solo filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s narrative feature Nyad (Netflix).

Deadline is on the ground to watch all the key films. Below is a compilation of our reviews from the fest, which also include Rustin, All of Us Strangers, The Bikeriders and more.

Related: Film Festival Calendar For 2023

All of Us Strangers

Director: Andrew Haigh

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures

Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, Claire Foy

Deadline’s takeaway: The film asks a lot of questions, but the answers are not supplied easily. It is a challenging work as much of Andrew Haigh’s character-driven filmography often is, but one that offers rich rewards if you sign on to it at all.

We’ve all seen our share of stories about inspirational teachers. “The Holdovers” is dedicated to the opposite sort: a hard-ass named Paul Hunham whom everyone hates. The feeling is mutual, as Mr. Hunham considers most of the kids enrolled at Barton Academy to be entitled little monsters, and the administration to be even more corrupt. Judging by the evidence director Alexander Payne provides, Mr. Hunham’s not wrong. But he is uncharitable, and on that count, the movie couldn’t be more different: It’s a generous drama about three wounded souls stranded at Barton over Christmas break, during which this coldhearted boarding school Scrooge gets a welcome chance to thaw.

The year is 1970, but “The Holdovers” is not your typical period movie. Instead, it feels as if Payne (a heroic film preservation advocate) unearthed this vintage artifact from the era in which it takes place. From the old-school...

Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum, with its wood-paneled walls and comfy, arena sitting, could easily double as a well-appointed suburban mega-church. And thus is it decked out in Lucas Hnath’s provocative new drama “The Christians,” which opened Sunday (appropriately enough) for a limited run through Jan. 10. Much of Hnath’s play takes the form of a Sunday service in an evangelical church, with a full choir dressed in navy blue robes providing a live harmonic overture before the pastor, Paul (Andrew Garman), takes the pulpit and delivers the Good News: The 20-year-old church which started in a storefront has just.

Casting has been announced for the 2014 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Gala 'One Acts for a Cause' set to take place on Sunday, June 22 at 730pm at the East 13th Street Theater 136 East 13th Street.The evening, which will benefit the non-profit NYC food services agency City Harvest, will feature Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo The Fighter, three-time Tony Award nominee Mary Beth Hurt Crimes of the Heart, films The World According to Garp amp The Age of Innocence, Caissie Levy currently starring as Fantine in Les Miserables, Phoebe Strole Spring Awakening, Glee, Jonathan Walker Rocky, The Assembled Parties, Eric Lenox Abrams All The Way, Kellie Overbey The Coast of Utopia Tina Benko Irena's Vow, Top Girls amp Andrew Garman Salome with Al Pacino, Obie Award-winners Russell G. Jones Ruined amp Eisa Davis Sustained Excellence, Passing Strange, and Courtney Thomas Eve Ensler's Emotional Creature, Jon Norman Schneider The Architecture of Being and Quincy Tyler Bernstine Ruined,...