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Phantom Thread
Set in the glamour of 1950s post-War London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across the young, strong-willed Alma (newcomer Vicky Krieps) who soon becomes a fixture in his life as muse and lover. His carefully tailored life is disrupted by love. Celebrated director Paul Thomas Anderson paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey, and the women who keep his world running. Phantom Thread is Anderson’s eighth movie and his second collaboration with three-time Oscar winner Day-Lewis.
A special note from our Executive Director Brenda Moe
To balance the stark solitude of Anemone, we’re shining a light on Daniel Day-Lewis’s softer roles and tracing his career in reverse. After the release of Phantom Thread, in which he delivered an exquisite performance as the meticulous, controlling couturier Reynolds Woodcock, Day-Lewis announced his retirement. In The Age of Innocence, as Newland Archer, a man torn between the comfort of convention and forbidden passion, he offers a masterful exploration of repression in the face of societal expectations. In A Room with a View, as Cecil Vyse, a desperately self-conscious, pompous man whom George Emerson notes “can’t know anyone intimately, least of all a woman,” Day-Lewis brings remarkable empathy and sympathy to a character he once said “can’t open his mouth without clearing a room.” And finally, his turning-point as Johnny in My Beautiful Laundrette the performance that launched him into public awareness. Join us in celebrating this remarkable actor with four films that span 31 years of Oscar ceremonies and earned a collective 20 nominations.
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