December 7, 2023

The Culture Show Podcast · Dec 7, 2023 · 49m

I’m Jared Bowen. This is The Culture Show.

First up, what do you call three lost souls left on a prep school campus during the holidays? The holdovers. That’s also the title of Alexander Payne’s new film.

Set in the 1970’s, Paul Giamatti plays a scrooge-like New England teacher–stingy with good grades and generosity. But over the winter holiday break, his heart thaws –slightly –and he forges an unlikely fellowship with a student who has been abandoned by his family and the school cook who has just lost her son– a soldier fighting in Vietnam.

I’ll talk to the Oscar-winning filmmaker about the…