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    Phantom Thread

    Dec 26, 2017 5 minutes
    BY ROBERT KOEHLER

    SoCal being SoCal, it’s hard to leave it, especially if you were born there. The only good joke in has someone cracking wise about living in Newport Beach and the problem of going on vacation: Where do you go, since the best weather is here? People who don’t know the San Fernando Valley, birthplace (Studio City) and residence (Tarzana) of Paul Thomas Anderson, don’t appreciate how the subtext of (2014) is the liberating relief of being at the beach, from which the Valley is separated by the giant wall of the Santa Monica Mountains. Even though the novel was a case of Thomas Pynchon returning to the scene of the crime—Manhattan Beach, where he wrote —the movie was a case of Anderson getting out of

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