Alexander Payne, ‘The Holdovers’

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The Monocle Weekly

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2024-01-20

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Monocle Radio’s senior correspondent, Fernando Augusto Pacheco, speaks with Alexander Payne, director of ‘The Holdovers’, a dramatic comedy that’s getting Oscar buzz. Set in the 1970s, it follows three lonely people at a New England boarding school over a winter break.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Hello and welcome to the Monaco Weekly.

  • I'm Fernando Gusto Paseko and for today's show I speak of Alexander Payne, the director of the Holdovers, a dramatic comedy that's getting a lot of Oscar buzz.

  • Set in the 1970s, it follows three lonely people at a New England boarding school over a winter break.

  • Alexand began by explaining which 1930s French film inspired the premise of the movie.

  • Mr.

  • Hun.

  • Hello, Mary.

  • I heard you got stuck with babysitting duty this year.

  • How'd you manage that?

  • You know he used to be a student, right?

  • Yeah, that's why he knows how to inflict maximum pain on us.

  • I thought all the Nazis were hiding.

  • Stifle it, Tully.

  • Filmmakers are always just looking for a decent premise.

  • I just need a hook on which to hang the meat of the rest of the film.

  • About a dozen years ago, I was at a film festival and caught a little known Marcel panol film from 1935, which had the same essential premise, not the same story at all.

  • The stories are going wildly different directions, but the premise was good and I left the cinema thinking, oh, that's good.

  • How about another movie could be made off that same general premise?

  • But I didn't do anything with it for years, until I met David Hemingson, who had written a pilot, which I had read that took place in a boarding school.

  • So I contacted him and I said, hey, I've read your pilot.