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

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: Phantom Thread (2017), written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and The Ballad of Jack and Rose (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.   Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:  Flash Forward to Late 2021 – Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Season 5: Daniel Day-Lewis 0h 05n 48s:   Phantom Thread (2017; dir: Paul Thomas Anderson)   1h 02s 26s:  The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005; dir: Rebecca Miller) +++ * Check out our Complete Upcoming Episode Schedule * Find Elise's latest film piece on Billy Wilder and 1930s Romantic Comedy *And Read lots of Elise's Writing at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Cléo, and Bright Lights.* Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at [email protected] Theme Music: "What's Yr Take on Cassavetes?" – Le Tigre