Tag: Phantom Thread
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Jennifer Lawrence Shut ‘Phantom Thread’ Off After Three Minutes, Apologizes to Anyone Who Loved It
When Jennifer Lawrence turns in her preferential ballot for Best Picture this year, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” will probably be at the very bottom of the list. During an appearance promoting “Red Sparrow” on Marc Maron’s “Wtf” podcast, the Oscar winner revealed she couldn’t make it past the three-minute mark of Paul Thomas Anderson’s…
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Specialty Box Office Lags as Oscar Season Plays Out and Streaming Surges
Looking at the full-page movie ads in the Sunday The New York Times, one might think the upcoming movies are “Phantom Thread,” “Dunkirk,” and “Darkest Hour.” Nearly all the Arts & Leisure film ads were for Oscar contenders.That’s where the specialized market finds itself after a successful four-month awards season. But those films, many of…
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Paul Thomas Anderson Writing New Movie With His Daughter
Phantom Thread director Paul Thomas Anderson is already working on something new, and here’s a twist: he’s writing the script with his 8-year-old daughter. More on Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie below. Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is nominated for six Academy Awards this year, but he’s not content to sit back and rest on…
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Will Alexandre Desplat Take Home Another Oscar? A History of Score Wins
Will French composer Alexandre Desplat win best original score award for “The Shape of Water,” as most Oscar prognosticators are currently predicting?As more than 7,300 eligible Academy members cast their ballots this week, they are mulling over the musical categories as well. Competing with Desplat is Jonny Greenwood’s score for “Phantom Thread,” Carter Burwell’s for…
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Divided Oscar Loyalties: Who Do They Really Want to Win the Gold?
Decisions, decisions: Academy Awards voters have plenty of worthy nominees to choose from as they mark their ballots in the final stretch of a particularly competitive Oscar season.But what about those voters who struggle with divided loyalties? There are a handful every year: those who, in fact, have strong ties to more than one of…
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Sound Is 50% of the Movie, but Hollywood is Often Tone-Deaf
People in the industry vaguely understand the job of an editor, cinematographer or production designer. But even sophisticated showbiz veterans are flummoxed by the work of sound people.It’s ironic because the movies of 2017 created some indelible sounds: the tinkle of a stirred teacup in “Get Out”; the hollow singing of the holograms in “Blade…
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‘Shape Of Water’ Upsets ‘Phantom Thread’ At 2018 Costume Guild Awards
The Costume Designers Guild handed out the last industry guild honor of the season Tuesday night and they left the audience gagging. Luis Sequeira‘s work on “The Shape of Water” upset the expected Oscar winner Mark Bridges‘ constructions for “
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BAFTA Award Winners, as They Arrive
As ever, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards favor homegrown fare. Thus many nomination slots that might have included such Hollywood films as “The Post” or “Wonder Woman” went to the likes of “Dunkirk,””Darkest Hour,” and “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.”Leading the BAFTA field…
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Peter Bradshaw’s predictions for the 2018 film Baftas
Will Brit hopefuls Lady Macbeth and The Death of Stalin triumph? And will Daniel Day-Lewis get a final gong before retiring? Our chief critic places his betsThe Baftas are almost here, exciting news for the truly excellent British films which could well be rewarded: Lady Macbeth, The Death of Stalin, God’s Own Country. There could…
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Watch: Vicky Krieps & Lesley Manville Talk Extensively About Working on ‘Phantom Thread’
2017 deserves credit for spurring one of the rarest of all events in modern filmmaking: an Oscars ceremony where there is more than one deserving entry for Best Picture. The Academy Awards have a long, aggravating history of giving top honors and nominations to thorough mediocrities, good movies, and outright travesties mostly, with one or…