Phantom Thread (2017)

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Wikidata Q28840386, film, IMDb tt5776858, TMDB 400617: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 2 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Eyes Wide Shut: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (lesson learned): Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Phantom Thread (the host's read). The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews.
    “Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Tár: 2 lines theme ×2

  1. theme (comparison): Tár → Phantom Thread. Adam compares Tar to Phantom Thread as an unexpected discourse and meme movie driven by a naked, embarrassing performance.
    “It is a meme monster movie. In a way that reminds me, in a way that reminds me actually more than anything, of something like Phantom Thread”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:08 · Adam Nayman (0.80 sure it was them)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (joke): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Phantom Thread. Jen's bar-ordering is like a Phantom Thread order.
    “She does like a fucking phantom thread order.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:32:27 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

Eyes Wide Shut: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (lesson learned): Eyes Wide Shut → Phantom Thread. The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews.
    “Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Hard Eight (Sydney): 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Hard Eight (Sydney) → Phantom Thread. Phantom Thread is the hyper-disciplined piece PTA delivered after going very far afield.
    “the next time he made just a hyper discipline piece was Phantom Thread”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:57:32 · Brian Koppelman (0.80 sure it was them)

Little Miss Sunshine: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Phantom Thread → Little Miss Sunshine. Dave Toshki (as transcribed) Animal Crackers Award for niche tastes: Reynolds Woodcock's poisoned mushrooms, the Little Miss Sunshine character, Neil McCauley in Heat.
    “Reynolds Woodcock's fondness for poisoned mushrooms and Phantom Thread.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:14:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Nope: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career fork): Nope → Phantom Thread. Sean wonders if Peele will go the Phantom Thread route, the Visit route, or keep making Inception-scale films, and hopes for a Spielbergian approach.
    “in 10 or 15 years whether or not Jordan Peele is making his phantom thread.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:34:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career fork): Nope → Phantom Thread. Sean wonders if Peele will go the Phantom Thread route, the Visit route, or keep making Inception-scale films, and hopes for a Spielbergian approach.
    “in 10 or 15 years whether or not Jordan Peele is making his phantom thread.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:34:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Hard Eight (Sydney) → Phantom Thread. Phantom Thread is the hyper-disciplined piece PTA delivered after going very far afield.
    “the next time he made just a hyper discipline piece was Phantom Thread”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:57:32 · Brian Koppelman (0.80 sure it was them)

theme (3)

  1. theme (theme): Phantom Thread → Little Miss Sunshine. Dave Toshki (as transcribed) Animal Crackers Award for niche tastes: Reynolds Woodcock's poisoned mushrooms, the Little Miss Sunshine character, Neil McCauley in Heat.
    “Reynolds Woodcock's fondness for poisoned mushrooms and Phantom Thread.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:14:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. theme (comparison): Tár → Phantom Thread. Adam compares Tar to Phantom Thread as an unexpected discourse and meme movie driven by a naked, embarrassing performance.
    “It is a meme monster movie. In a way that reminds me, in a way that reminds me actually more than anything, of something like Phantom Thread”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:08 · Adam Nayman (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. theme (comparison): Tár → Phantom Thread. Sean agrees with Phantom Thread as a perfect comparison, since both are secretly comedies.
    “Phantom Thread is a perfect comparison, Adam, because it's also that's also a crypto comedy”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (lesson learned): Eyes Wide Shut → Phantom Thread. The speaker feels PTA took lessons from visiting the Kubrick set about small crews.
    “Like, it feels like PTA sort of learned some lessons from being on the set that took years to see Ben.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:06:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (joke): Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon → Phantom Thread. Jen's bar-ordering is like a Phantom Thread order.
    “She does like a fucking phantom thread order.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 1:32:27 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

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Who the speakers said made it

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