Phantom Thread (PTA, Dec. 2017)...

[Irish]

Discuss.

*runs away cackling*

[Peng]

I only learned a few minutes ago that this has provoked a lot of discussions/feuds in the last few days, especially between him and Glenn Kenny.

[Milky Joe]

somebody's jealous

[Grouchy]

Jesus, whatever happened to professionalism? You don't attack a colleague. If you can't say good things, shut the fuck up.

[Ezee E]

Jesus, whatever happened to professionalism? You don't attack a colleague. If you can't say good things, shut the fuck up.

What?

[transmogrifier]

Is Neil Bahadur someone whose opinion we should care about?

[Grouchy]

What?

Eh, I don't know who that guy is. He has a documentary credit on IMDb so I assumed he's a filmmaker.

[Irish]

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest film, “Phantom Thread,” the American director mines the larger-than-life personalities of that dusty era of London haute couture. Collaborating with Academy Award-winning costume designer Mark Bridges (of 2012’s “The Artist,” as well as Anderson’s “Boogie Nights,” from 1997, and “There Will Be Blood,” from 2007), Anderson paints an elegant and tactile picture of an exacting and eccentric owner of a fictional London couture house in the 1950s. The costume designs not only clothe the visually sumptuous film’s characters, but create the aesthetic of an imaginary fashion label called The House of Woodcock, whose namesake, Reynolds Woodcock, is played by Daniel Day-Lewis in what is said to be his last performance.

“We didn’t want this character to be ‘The World’s Greatest Designer.’ If we wanted to do that we would have made the Cristóbal Balenciaga story,” Anderson says. Instead, the character is a work of fiction, an apparent amalgamation of numerous traits of various couturiers: Woodcock’s imperious sister Cyril (played by Lesley Manville) helms the business — a nod to real-life couture counterparts in 1950s London, such as Victor Stiebel and Norman Hartnell, whose sisters managed their lines. He embroiders names and secret messages into his clothes, such as “never cursed” in the hem of a wedding dress for a German princess, echoing the late Lee Alexander McQueen, who was rumored to have scrawled profanities inside the lining of a bespoke jacket for Prince Charles.

^ New York Times Fashion has a deep dive on the film's setting and background:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/28/t...-anderson.html

[number8]

[transmogrifier]

My Letterboxd posse loves the shit out of this film so far.