Christmas movies have exploded since the streaming companies realised audiences want nothing more this time of the year than to sit back and be dazzled with colourful lights and a cheesy story.
If Giamatti is nominated for best actor, it would be an overdue acknowledgement of one this era’s finest actors, one who’s long imbued everyman characters with wit and warmth
Cinematographer Eigil Bryld on how he pulled off director Alexander Payne’s directive that the movie set at a New England boarding school look, feel and sound like it was actually made during the decade.
The film, says the director, is trying to take the idea of the period film “one step further”: not just to conjure up the mood of a bygone time, but to recapture a movie-making sensibility that it pioneered.