Director Alexander Payne talks about scouting Cleveland film locations, his new movie ‘The Holdovers’ and working with Paul Giamatti
Updated: Nov. 06, 2023, 11:33 a.m. Director Alexander Payne with Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph on the set of “The Holdovers,” which opens Friday in theaters. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Long live drama is the quiet rally cry of director Alexander Payne.
Set in the early ‘70s, the narrative follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during the holiday break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. We recently chatted with Payne about eating at Sokolowski’s University Inn, his love of drama and working again with Giamatti.I was scouting in 2019 for a movie that’s the only project I’ve been involved with that was fully prepared and all ready to go and we had to pull the plug on it four or five days before production started. I was encouraged to base in Ohio because of the tax incentives. So I flew into Cleveland and spent three or four days. I did the same thing in Columbus and Cincinnati.
I like old movies. At the Telluride Film Festival about 12 years ago, I saw a 1935 French movie called “Merlusse,” a lesser-known film by a famous director of the period named Marcel Pagnol. The story didn’t stick with me but I walked out thinking that’s a good premise for a movie. I’ll have to research that one day and try to write some version of that. When I say research, it’s to go out to New England and spend time at those schools.
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