In light of Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER being one of the defining titles of 2025 (it is currently nominated for a whopping 9 Golden Globes!), we thought the time was right to turn our collective lens back on another one of our favourite films of his, the seasonally appropriate romantic drama PHANTOM THREAD. Released in 2017, it was the second collaboration between the filmmaker and star Daniel Day Lewis, in an elegantly retrained yet luminous period piece that paints an illuminating portrait both of an artist on a creative journey, and the women who keep his world running.

Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Day-Lewis, in an Oscar-nominated performance) and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutantes and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love. With Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps.

"PHANTOM THREAD is seductive and absorbing, but it's also emotionally remote. The film is framed as a love story, but it never swoons." (Variety)

"PHANTOM THREAD's finely woven narrative is filled out nicely by humor, intoxicating romantic tension, and yet another impressively committed performance from Daniel Day-Lewis." (Rotten Tomatoes)

"Anderson's movies are never coherent enough to appeal to the mainstream, but this one is so ravishing and meticulous and exquisite that you have no difficulty ignoring its inherent lack of logic." (New York Observer)

Sunday, December 28
Doors 2:15 pm | Movie 2:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

PHANTOM THREAD (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017 / PG / 130 mins) In the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.