{"id":1003,"date":"2018-03-20T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2018-02-20T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T01:00:37","slug":"movie-phantom-thread-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/20\/movie-phantom-thread-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Phantom Thread (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/1\/1e\/Phantom_Thread.png\" alt=\"Phantom Thread\" width=\"220\" height=\"325\" \/>Phantom Thread<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2017<br \/>\nRating: R<br \/>\nLength: 130 minutes \/ 2.17 hours<\/p>\n<p>Much like\u00a0<em>The Post<\/em>\u00a0(2017),\u00a0<em>Phantom Thread<\/em>\u00a0(2017) has a director\/actor combination that just begs for an Oscar nomination. It seems that a decade after the last Paul Thomas Anderson\/Daniel Day-Lewis collaboration,\u00a0<em>There Will Be Blood<\/em>\u00a0(2007), the Academy might want to pull their \u201cshould have won\u201d trick and give the Best Picture Oscar to\u00a0<em>Phantom Thread<\/em>. After seeing this film, though, I have changed my initial assessment. Sure, it\u2019s good and has certain artistic elements that make it culturally significant, but other parts of it are just kind of . . . weird.<\/p>\n<p>First, the good. Daniel Day-Lewis, in his last role as an actor, unquestionably shows how good he is at his craft. I wouldn\u2019t doubt that he has a good shot at earning his historic fourth Best Actor Oscar. The costume design and cinematography are noteworthy, but the best part of this film is a little more subtle: the music. The score for this movie permeates the entirety of it, but the fact that the majority of it is on stringed instruments (even the piano has strings) speaks to the \u201cthread\u201d connection. Quite clever, if you ask me. Overall, the film just seems to \u201cwork,\u201d even if I don\u2019t know how it does.<\/p>\n<p><em>Phantom Thread<\/em>\u00a0also seems to suffer from the same slow build-up that\u00a0<em>There Will Be Blood\u00a0<\/em>had. Sure, it\u2019s methodical, but there are also weird moments where I couldn\u2019t figure out what the characters were thinking. Sure, Day-Lewis\u2019 character was a perfectionist to the detriment of his social skills, but some of his reactions were bizarre when the character broke out of his routines. Perhaps the weirdness of other Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s films (like\u00a0<em>The Master\u00a0<\/em>(2012)) leaked in and made it challenging to get a grasp on this movie.<\/p>\n<p>Another fine Paul Thomas Anderson\/Daniel Day-Lewis film, I give\u00a0<em>Phantom Thread<\/em>\u00a03.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phantom Thread Year: 2017 Rating: R Length: 130 minutes \/ 2.17 hours Much like\u00a0The Post\u00a0(2017),\u00a0Phantom Thread\u00a0(2017) has a director\/actor combination that just begs for an Oscar nomination. It seems that a decade after the last Paul Thomas Anderson\/Daniel Day-Lewis collaboration,\u00a0There Will Be Blood\u00a0(2007), the Academy might want to pull their \u201cshould have won\u201d trick and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2,370,369],"tags":[349,1153,13,1154,1152,8,1156,1155],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-movie","category-nominee","category-oscar","tag-349","tag-daniel-day-lewis","tag-movie","tag-paul-thomas-anderson","tag-phantom-thread","tag-review","tag-the-master","tag-there-will-be-blood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}