Preview: The Holdovers

Paul Giamatti talks with Patrick Stoner about his unique ability to play difficult, even irritating, characters with charm.

Preview: The Holdovers

Welcome to Flicks, a WHYY program devoted to exploring the latest creations from Hollywood. Each week, WHYY film critic Patrick Stoner provides up-to-the-minute coverage of top films, stars and moviemakers. Stoner’s signature programs — the three-minute Flicks, capturing interviews with the stars and the one-minute Quick Pics offering the week’s “best bets” — appear on dozens of PBS stations nationwide each week. At this site, you can view Patrick’s latest interview as well as interviews from the Flicks archives.

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Preview: The Holdovers

Paul Giamatti talks with Patrick Stoner about his unique ability to play difficult, even irritating, characters with charm. ...

Air Date: November 29, 2023

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Colman Domingo talks with Patrick Stoner about the personal honor he felt playing the mistreated civil rights leader. ...

Air Date: November 22, 2023

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Oscar winning documentarian Errol Morris talks with Patrick Stoner about his exploration of the master spy novelist, John LeCarre. ...

Air Date: November 15, 2023

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Martin Scorsese talks with Patrick Stoner about how Leonardo DiCaprio changed the focus of the film. ...

Air Date: November 8, 2023

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Meg Ryan & David Duchovny talk with Patrick Stoner about refining their overlapping dialogue while shooting in a real airport. ...

Air Date: November 1, 2023

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The Korean director of this suspense streaming series talks with Patrick Stoner about differences in foreign directing practices. ...

Air Date: October 18, 2023

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Leonard Bernstein’s children talk with Patrick Stoner about working with Bradley Cooper to make the biopic of their iconic father. ...

Air Date: October 11, 2023

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Director John Carney talks with Patrick Stoner about letting the chemistry of the characters develop organically as he shot his little Ir ...

Air Date: September 20, 2023

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Cate Blanchett & director talk with Patrick Stoner about the streaming multiple award-winning film & why what was shot that’s ...

Air Date: September 13, 2023

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Samara Weaving & Lucy Boynton talk with Patrick Stoner about playing aristocratic women in 18th century France. ...

Air Date: September 6, 2023

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Guy Nattiv, the director, talks with Patrick Stoner about casting Helen Mirren as the late Israeli leader & how he approached the Y ...

Air Date: August 30, 2023

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Jon Hamm & the director talk with Patrick Stoner about going back to the original novels to recreate the iconic Fletch character mad ...

Air Date: August 23, 2023

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