'Phantom Thread' review: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Thomas Anderson team up for the last time?
The delectable peculiarities of "Phantom Thread" come from all over, from countless inspirations. Some are cinematic: Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 Gothic standard "Rebecca," for one, and David Lean's little-known and fascinating 1949 romantic triangle "The Passionate Friends," for another.
Other inspirations are personal, presumably, since a movie this distinctive in its delicate perversity is likely saying something about the preoccupations and ambitions of its writer-director, Paul Thomas Anderson, and its star, Daniel Day-Lewis.
The actor, whom Anderson says had a considerable, uncredited hand in the shaping of the material, claims this
