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Phantom Thread is widely available on digital platforms, 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD.
The ‘phantom thread’ in the title of Paul Thomas Anderson’s eighth feature refers to a term that seamstresses working in the East End of Victorian London used to describe the sensation they felt after emerging from long, repetitive hours in the workshop. After returning home exhausted, the women would find their hands moving involuntarily, their fingers clasped as though sewing invisible, ‘phantom’ threads.
It’s a title that offers hints of the gothic undercurrents that drive Anderson’s film, the first the California-native has made outside the US. Phantom Thread is a claustrophobic chamber drama about the balance between giving and taking, conceding and resisting in relationships, and one as singularly unconventional as any he has made since 2002’s Punch-Drunk Love signalled his move away from the dazzlingly orchestrated Scorsese/Altman-isms of Boogie Nights (1997) and Magn
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12:15 PM December 24, 2020
The Nutcracker ballet from the Royal Opera House is coming to Saffron Screen.
- Credit: ROYAL OPERA HOUSE / SAFFRON SCREEN
Looking for some entertainment over the Christmas period? Saffron Screen in Saffron Walden has a range of options over the break.
Daphne Du Maurier’s classic novel Rebecca (12A) is screened on Sunday (Dec 27) at 2.30pm. Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer) returns home to his country estate of Manderley with his new bride (Lily James) - but she struggles because of the atmosphere left by the first Mrs de Winter, the Rebecca of the title who has died, and the housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Armie Hammer Sparks Dating Rumors With Paige Lorenze Amid Elizabeth Chambers Divorce
Celebrity
The Call Me by Your Name actor went public about his separation from his wife of 10 years in July, and has since been seen enjoying outings with several women including Rumer Willis. Dec 16, 2020
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Armie Hammer might have found a new love in the wake of his marriage breakdown. Five months after going public with his divorce from wife
Elizabeth Chambers, the
Call Me by Your Name actor sent tongue wagging over a possible new romance when he was spotted enjoying a walk together with model
Grace’s Manhattan in ‘The Undoing’
“The rich are different,” said Fitzgerald, in a languishing dreamy tone. “Yes,” replied Hemingway brusquely, “they have more money.”
It is difficult not to recall this exchange when watching HBO and Sky Atlantic’s David E. Kelly mini-series
The Undoing, which in this year of an ever more rapid COVID-induced transfer of wealth from the lowest to the highest income brackets, thinks it is giving us, in the guise of a murder mystery, a female emancipation series when in fact it is simply glorifying and asking us to adore the wealthy.
The series illustrates not the triumph of the MeToo movement but the nightmare of what it always threatened to become: emancipation for rich white women, here in the form of Nicole Kidman’s determined stride in a green greatcoat along the avenues of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Along with that comes its converse, continued eroticizing and exoticizing of minority and working-class women in the f
2020 Herald-Tribune holiday book guide
With so many people staying home during this pandemic year, it has been a good time to catch up on reading. Once again this year, I asked my Herald-Tribune colleagues to look back at favorite books they enjoyed or that moved or inspired them. Some were published in the last few months, others date back much earlier.
Whatever the subject or genre, we hope you will find something to trigger your own interests or make a last-minue addition to your holiday wish list.
Jay Handelman, Arts Editor
When the impeccable novelist-of-manners Laurie Colwin died unexpectedly in 1992 at the age of 48, her readers felt they had lost their best friend. As a writer she was even better than a best friend, amusing and affirming, not the kind who secretly competed with you or called only when she wanted something.