A three-time Academy Award winner, Daniel Day-Lewis last appeared on screen in 2017’s “Phantom Thread.” And, as recently as six months ago, friends such as filmmaker Jim Sheridan said the 67-year-old had given no indication he was planning on ending his retirement from acting. It appears his son has convinced him to change that stance.

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Focus Features and Plan B announced today that the senior Day-Lewis will star in Ronan Day-Lewis’ feature directorial debut, “Anemone.” The 26-year-old artist directed the 2018 short “The Sheep and the Wolf” and the little-seen Sargasso music video “Snow and Sun.” He’s better known for his painting, which has been included in several pubic exhibitions over the past few years.

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Three-time Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest living actors working today, which is why it’s puzzling to many that he decided to leave the profession altogether following the making of the Paul Thomas Anderson film “Phantom Thread.” The acclaimed drama earned Day-Lewis his sixth Best Actor Oscar nomination, playing a dressmaker who falls in love and places himself in a power-struggle relationship with his romantic partner.

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With HBO‘s “Succession” entering its fourth and final reason in two weekends, it’s time to start reminiscing about the show’s elite ensemble cast and their work together. But don’t expect some of the actors to feel the same way. IndieWire (via Variety) reports that Brian Cox is calling out “method acting” yet again, something he’s done consistently recently with “Succession” co-star Jeremy Strong.

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Now that “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” is out for the world to see, and with the filmmaker being more open to talking about the work he was doing before stepping away from the film, fans are eager to know more of what could have been with Snyder’s vision for the future of the DC universe. Turns out, in a different timeline, not only could we have got three “Justice League” movies, but Adam Driver and Daniel Day-Lewis could have played roles in the franchise.

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As this maddening list attests—one that nearly broke us trying to order “properly”—putting together a Best of Decade list is dangerous work. There’s just a million factors to consider, a million people and look, we anguish and anguish and at the end of the day it’s all arbitrary anyhow, so don’t give us shit!

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As the 100 Best Films of The 2010s Decade proved, no matter what you claim about the state of cinema and the sky is falling, the best of the best was unimpeachable.

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UPDATED: 2/2/19 – With Clarification From Editor Dylan Tichenor 

Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most acclaimed American directors working today. Five of the eight feature films that he’s written and directed have been nominated for Oscars, with eight total nominations. But even though he’s received an incredible amount of acclaim over his career, the high-point of his filmmaking is arguably 2007’s “There Will Be Blood.” And in a new retrospective over at Vanity Fair, the origin of the film’s most iconic scene gets revealed.

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Without a doubt, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” is one of the best films of 2017. That’s definitely not going out on a limb to say, at all. From the amazing acting by Daniel Day-Lewis (in his final performance, purportedly) to the incredible costume design (which won Mark Bridges an Oscar, and perhaps a jet ski?), the film is truly a masterpiece.

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Perhaps you didn’t realize going into a film about the intense relationship between a dressmaker and his muse that some of the best moments of the film involve food. As audiences soon realized, the film sure does love a good breakfast scene, including several over the course of the run-time. But it’s those scenes that really capture what makes “The Phantom Thread” one of the best films of the last year.

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For most actors, particularly those on the rise, getting the chance to stand opposite Daniel Day-Lewis is a rare, yet intimidating proposition. The actor’s rigorous method approach — which has generally seen him learn everything about the role he’s playing while taking on new skills and staying in character at all times on set — can make him a force to be reckoned with to those who are unprepared. So one might imagine that “Phantom Thread” star Vicky Krieps, largely unknown before her role in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s film, might have been uncertain as to how to navigate her titanic co-star.

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Dear Paul Thomas Anderson, please get an official Twitter account. Yesterday afternoon, the filmmaker continued his “Phantom Thread” promotional run with an absolutely terrific stint answering questions on Twitter through the film’s social media account. Both hilarious and illuminating, the whole thing is worth scrolling through, but we’ve got the highlight below.

READ MORE: Paul Thomas Anderson Reveals Fave Films Of 2017, Praises Tiffany Haddish, Wants To Work With Tom Hanks, More

As you might expect from questions coming from all over the place on Twitter, they were pretty random and there was a lot of “tell us your favorite” type queries.

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Daniel Day-Lewis, with three Oscars already in the bag, retired from acting this past year with his final role being another brilliant performance in Paul Thomas Anderson‘s “Phantom Thread.” The ultimate method actor, Day-Lewis is known for taking extreme measures to perfect a given role. He apprenticed with an actual butcher for his role as Bill “The Butcher” in “Gangs of New York“; he was fully in character, both on and off-screen, as Abraham Lincoln in “Lincoln“; he learned to build canoes, lived with Native Americans, learned to track and skin animals for his role in “The Last Of The Mohicans“; he refused to use his hands, only using his feet to complete daily tasks, for his role as cerebral palsy-inflicted, celebrated painter Christie Brown in “My Left Foot“; he learned to speak Czech for “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” oh, and lest we forget, he spent nights in jail, was asked to be verbally abused by prisoners, and lost 50 pounds to play an Irish prisoner in “In The Name of the Father.” Yikes, and that’s not even the half of it.

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From a distance, it might be easy to look at the films in the latter half of Paul Thomas Anderson‘s career (“Inherent Vice” aside) and believe the filmmaker to be a Very Serious Person. Certainly, pictures like “There Will Be Blood,” “The Master,” and his latest, “Phantom Thread,” come from a filmmaker who cares deeply about his craft.

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You don’t need great performances for a great movie, we suppose — Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s mesmerizing 2016 documentary/art piece “Homo Sapiens,” for instance, doesn’t feature a single human being on screen and is still excellent. But on the whole, the two things go hand in hand: it’s impossible to imagine “Lawrence Of Arabia” without Peter O’Toole, “Star Wars” without Harrison Ford, “Cabaret” without Liza Minnelli, or “Tokyo Story” without Chishu Ryu and Chieko Higashiyama, to name but a few.

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Daniel Day-Lewis is incomparable. A looming, legendary figure in cinema, whose stature has cemented after five decades of work as one of the greatest actors in the world, and one of all the all-time greats –  period – up there with the likes of Laurence Olivier and Marlon Brando. Known for his all-consuming method approach, which includes staying in character the entire time during the production of a film, like all mysterious figures who are semi-recluse —he doesn’t give a lot of interviews, he goes years in between films and once retired to become a cobbler—everyone seemingly wants a piece of Day-Lewis.

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s career keeps evolving, changing and maturing. The days of high speed, Martin Scorsese and Robert Altman-indebted movies are long gone and what has emerged is something more true to himself, more akin to the director’s personality — unhurried, laconic and chilled out. His latest picture, the ravishing “Phantom Thread,” is another one of his latter day pictures examining the inscrutable mysteries of human behavior and in particular, the crazy, strange designs behind love.

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Sometimes, all it takes for cinematic myth to take hold is one paragraph in an article from The New York Times Magazine on November 11, 2007. The profile by Lynn Hirschberg about Paul Thomas Anderson‘s “There Will Be Blood” revealed that during the shoot, the original actor slated to play Eli Sunday was fired, leading to Paul Dano having to double his work as both Paul and Eli Sunday.

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It’s fitting that Paul Thomas Anderson, a filmmaker known for fastidious craftsmanship, decided to make a movie about a fastidious craftsman. It’s true that Anderson has compared his new film “Phantom Thread” to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”; it’s also true that the comparison clicks. But “Phantom Thread” has just as much in common with “Rebecca” as with Jacques Rivette’s recently restored “La Belle Noiseuse,” a movie dedicated to the painstaking process of creating art.

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“Phantom Thread” marks two, distinct occasions for cinephiles: a new film by Paul Thomas Anderson, and the last big screen performance by Daniel Day-Lewis. That’s right, earlier this year, the acclaimed thespian announced his retirement from acting. We’ve been used to long stretches of absence by Day-Lewis, but it sounds like this time it’s for good. But even getting the actor — whose lsat screen role was five years ago in Steven Spielberg‘s “Lincoln” — to sign up for the project proved a bit daunting.

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When Paul Thomas Anderson was conceiving his latest film, “Phantom Thread,” a story set in the glamorous world of dressmaking in 1950s post-war London, but not at all about fashion, he was waking from a fever dream. “I was very, very sick in bed one night and my wife looked at me with a love and affection I hadn’t seen in a long time,” he said to great laughs (you’ll understand when you see the film).

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A post-Thanksgiving treat, “Phantom Thread” has finally been unveiled to the press and guild masses.  Thanks to a print and social media embargo we can’t discuss the film for quite some time (in all fairness, 20th Century Fox and Amblin have put the same embargo on “The Post”), but we are able to report on the post-screening Q&A. And, no, Daniel Day-Lewis was not on hand (New York audiences will be the lucky ones for that experience). 

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Many would claim this title belongs to Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, or Quentin Tarantino but I would argue that  Paul Thomas Anderson is the most eclectic, versatile filmmaker in the industry. From exploring the drug and sex-filled world of 1970s Los Angeles in “Boogie Nights,” to examining the prolonged desire for fulfillment through one lonely man in the vastly underappreciated “Punch-Drunk Love” – and even making a tale of the overwhelming power of greed set near an oil rig at the turn of the 20th century in the Academy-Award winning “There Will Be Blood,” Anderson has proven that no matter the shifting trends in genre, he will make whatever film he wants, whenever he wants.

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In a world where most good things become over familiar, Daniel Day-Lewis is like a comet that streaks across the sky every five years to shame other actors on their lack of dedication. We haven’t seen Day-Lewis since he won the Oscar for his title role in “Lincoln” and supposedly the upcoming “Phantom Thread” will be his last ever film role. To be fair, he’s claimed this before, in the ’90s when he disappeared and reappeared as a cobbler in Italy, but this time actually feels final and it is true that the three-time Best Actor winner has little left to prove.

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Is there a film obsessive cinephiles are looking forward to more this holiday season than Paul Thomas Anderson‘s upcoming movie “Phantom Thread“? The answer is, quite obviously, no. Despite the mixed reaction his last movie, “Inherent Vice,” received back in October of 2014, Anderson is still viewed as one of the greatest working filmmakers in the world today. “The Phantom Thread” reteams him with the newly retired “There Will Be Blood” star Daniel Day-Lewis.

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Provided we get to the end of the year without Donald Trump causing a nuclear armageddon, there is one small sliver to excitement we can take from the world of cinema, which is currently (rightfully) crumbling. There will be a new movie by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Kicking around under the working title “Phantom Thread” for much of the year, it turns out that will be the final name.

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[Updated Feb. 4]

Winner prediction:
1. Gary Oldman, “The Darkest Hour”
2. Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me By Your Name”
3. Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”
4. Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
5. Denzel Washington, “Roman Israel, Esq.”

Current predictions:

Best Picture
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Director
Original Screenplay
Adapted Screenplay
Editing
Cinematography
Production Design
Original Score
Best Song
Costumes
Sound Mixing
Sound Editing
Documentary
Foreign Language Film
Animated Feature Film
Makeup and Hairstyling
Visual Effects

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