Showing posts with label Daniel Day Lewis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Daniel Day Lewis. Show all posts

Friday, April 13, 2018

Phantom Thread: A Review



I finally saw Phantom Thread. I am only glad I did not see this in the theater. It was slow. Visually it is interesting (up to a point) and the acting is excellent, but the story is...tedious. I get it is about the psychological tension between the main characters (which is an acting and directing challenge), but I am a bit surprised Daniel Day Lewis chose this film to retire on.  Maybe it is because of Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis's work on There Will Be Blood (which I liked).  

I do not want to be too hard on the film. The production is spot on in capturing the British post war period. The acting really is excellent. Anderson does set up the shots well. I just was not that into where the story was going. Meh. 

There are reviews below. They obviously have spoilers.  

Rotten Tomatoes: Phantom Thread




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Thursday, February 21, 2013

An Academy Award Members' honest assessment of this year's Oscar picks...

The Oscar
DrewM. at Ace of Spades gets the hat tip for finding this.

I liked the assessment very much and I agree with most of it (I did see Paperman when I went to see Wreck It Ralph, and I am glad he picked it for animated short).  I would have picked The Pirates over Wreck It Ralph, but I am am partial to ham.

I liked The Master very much and thought Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman did a great job.  Daniel Day Lewis absolutely deserves best actor for Lincoln (and I would be fine if Hoffman got best supporting for The Master).

I did not consider the commentary brutal at all (although it is honest), even if I liked Les Misérables and Argo better than he did.  Beasts of the Southern Wild sucked and it is nuts to pretend otherwise.  Zero Dark Thirty would be my pick for best picture (although I suspect Lincoln will win).    I liked Django Unchained, but it is basically a rehashing of Tarantino's previous work and it does not deserve best picture.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Stephen Spielberg's Abraham Lincoln

I like that Stephen Spielberg is directing and that Daniel Day Lewis is playing Lincoln.  Yeah, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer was a disappointment.  I am hopeful this movie is not.  I know it is cool to dismiss Spielberg, but he is still a great film maker with a few more classics yet to be made.  I hope Tony Kushner (screen play) and Doris Kearns Goodwin (book) don't screw up the subject matter.