Special Subject - Daniel Day-Lewis Acteur Oeuvre-Preview - Phantom Thread (2017) and The Ballad of Jack & Rose (2005)

Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 8:10 a.m.

A proleptic episode in which we anticipate our future Acteurist Oeuvre-view of the career of (retired) Greatest Living Actor, Sir Daniel Day-Lewis. The foretaste comes in the form of two films in which Day-Lewis plays men willing to do anything to preserve a vision that ultimately comes down to taste, and inspires homicidal impulses in the women who love him:\xa0Phantom Thread\xa0(2017), written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and\xa0The Ballad of Jack and Rose\xa0(2005), written and directed by Lady Day-Lewis, otherwise known as Rebecca Miller. We conclude that these films offer good examples of some of the things only Day-Lewis can do; and speculate about the mother-shaped figure in Anderson's carpet.\xa0\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s: \xa0Flash Forward to Late 2021 \u2013 Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Season 5: Daniel Day-Lewis

0h 05n 48s:\xa0 \xa0Phantom Thread (2017; dir: Paul Thomas Anderson) \xa0

1h 02s 26s: \xa0The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005; dir: Rebecca Miller)

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