The Holdovers (2023), the latest film by Alexander Payne, after a screenplay by David Hemingson, is set in a New England prep school during a snowy winter break, on the backdrop of the 1970s. Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) is the professor who has to supervise a handful of boys who have nowhere to go for […]
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Anatomy of a Fall (Dir. Justine Triet)This fitting and worthy Palme d’Or winner, with lead player Sandra Huller surely destined to pick up more awards, is something of a miracle, raw and real yet magnificently melodramatic in its courtroom twists and turns (writer-director Triet studied some classics, Anatomy of a Murder and Compulsion, both 1959, […]