The great films of the 1970s have long loomed in the imagination of filmmakers raised during one of the most fertile periods of American movies. But Alexander Payne wanted to take it a step further. Payne’s latest film, “The Holdovers,” isn’t just set in 1970; it seeks to embody the humanistic spirit of films like “The Last Detail,” “Harold and Maude,” “The Landlord” and “Paper Moon.”
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