#cyril woodcock

[kaphkas]

Currently thinking about how perfect a Bagginshield Phantom Thread au would be, actually

- Obviously Thorin is Reynolds, and instead of the House of Woodcock, it’s the House of Durin.

- Dís is Cyril, handling administration and networking (which Thorin refuses do because he’s incapable of being civil with annoying rich people).

- The rest of the Company work as seamsters/tailors.

- Thorin is haunted by the death of his father and frequently sews his name into the lining of the clothes he makes. Of course.

- While on retreat at his country estate, he visits a nearby restaurant and meets Bilbo, a waiter. Thorin orders an exorbitantly large breakfast and is impressed when Bilbo manages to remember it all. (Which he canonically fucking does in the book, like??)

- Cue whirlwind romance + Bilbo habitually poisoning Thorin with mushrooms whenever he starts to get uppity with him.

- Oh and Thranduil is the drunk client they steal the clothes back from.

#bagginshield #.m #truly demented of me I know but I needed to put this out into the world #maybe I’ll do art too who knows

[bagofbonesmp3]

Saw phantom thread, kiss me my girl before im sick, i exploded. BUT cyril woodcock 😍😍

we got another one for the phantom thread fanclub boys!!!

#women...

[verypersonalscreencaps]

It is almost time! Series 3 #WhoAmIThisTime drops tomorrow where LESLEY MANVILLE will be chatting to DAVID MORRISSEY about her BAFTA & Academy award nominated portrayal of Cyril Woodcock in the 2017 film Phantom Thread.

#lesley manville #david morrissey #who am i this time? #podcast

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Nos anos 1950, Reynolds Woodcock é um renomado e confiante estilista que trabalha ao lado da irmã, Cyril, para vestir grandes nomes da realeza e da elite britânica. Sua inspiração surge através das mulheres que, constantemente, entram e saem de sua vida. Mas tudo muda quando ele conhece a forte e inteligente Alma, que vira sua musa e amante.

[melatonincycle]

The Weaponization of Love

Recommendation: Your Graduation by Modern Baseball

Love, and especially romantic love, can often be related to Hemingway’s iceberg theory. When he wrote short stories, Hemingway expressed himself with a sort of minimalism that focused on the surface rather than delving into an explicit conversation regarding the underlying themes of his stories. Love is similar to this idea. The iceberg is more contained on the surface and it is often difficult or even impossible for the one not experiencing this one individual love to see the complex monstrosity that lies below sea level. Love is far more complicated and often much less beautiful than it appears on the surface. Jealousy is sometimes a principal cause of the corruption of a love once seemingly untouched by malice.

Daniel M. Farrell writes on the concept of jealousy in his article, Jealousy. He explores the identifiable differences between jealousy and envy as well as why it is important to make this distinction. Farrell writes that, “Our protagonist feels jealousy, it seems to me, only if, and to the degree that, she has, in some respect, begun to care about how her lover thinks about (or treats) her relative to others” (Farrell 537). In Phantom Thread, (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017), Alma finds herself entrenched in jealousy throughout her relationship with Reynolds Woodcock. Where does her jealousy come from? Farrell writes about jealousy as a threat-response to the thought that one’s “status as a favored individual may be in jeopardy” (Farrell 554). Through Alma’s eyes, Reynolds’ initial attraction to Alma begins to compete with his detached nature and sole focus on his business. 

There is a sort of duality of jealousy that takes place within Phantom Thread. The first is Alma’s jealousy towards Reynolds for not putting her first over everything, including all others that Reynolds interacts with as well as Reynolds’ business. On the other hand, Reynolds’ jealousy makes itself known when some clients begin choosing another dressmaking business over his own. Here, Reynolds fulfills Farrell’s definition of jealousy because he is beginning to care about how his current and former clients think about the House of Woodcock.

Furthermore, both Alma and Reynolds exhibit the “threat-response” that Farrell talks about. For example, when Cyril tells Reynolds that his designs may be outdated compared to others, his threat response is his belief that his marriage with Alma may need to come to an end and that she may be more of a distracting presence than an inspirational one. In the wake of hearing Reynolds’ words, Alma capitalizes on her own threat response of poisoning Reynolds in order to keep him subdued and needy: If he cannot focus on his business or the other people around him, Alma is his only need and Alma has no need to worry about how Reynolds thinks about others or his business.

Is jealous love, or love “earned” through actions taken in the pursuit of gaining favorable recognition or treatment of another, really love? There may be too much subjectivity in this sort of idea. As Alma describes at the end of Phantom Thread, she truly believes that she and Reynolds are in love, and their actions towards the end of the film give us very little room to disagree. Reynolds knows that Alma has poisoned him yet again, and he willingly eats his food and asks Alma to kiss him before he falls ill. I think a better question can be asked here. Does the love between these two characters already exist, or is this sort of happiness manufactured through Alma’s poisoning of Reynolds’ food?

Love is relative, meaning that it is in the eye of the beholder. For Alma, she can love and be loved by Reynolds most easily and completely when he is incapacitated. Thus, the poisoning sparks a stronger and fuller love between the two characters because it allows Reynolds to focus on nothing but the woman caring for him and Alma to be allowed to spend so much of her time and attention on Reynolds.

There are some relationships in which a person can be subjected to mental, emotional, or physical abuse, constant fighting, dishonesty, etc. etc… and still believe that they love the other person. Who has the right to tell them that they are wrong? It is inaccurate to believe that we can speak for another in terms of love. One person can never look inside another and see what they are made of; I could listen to another person recount their entire life from start to finish and how each moment made them feel and I would still be unable to understand or represent the totality of another human being. It would be almost dehumanizing to tell another how to love or to judge whether or not another is truly in love: it would ignore the experiences and perspectives that make this person an individual. That is not to say that one should not step in and offer or provide help if some sort of relationship becomes truly abusive/dangerous for one or more people (although even in these cases, love can still remain).

But in a relationship like Alma and Reynolds’, both characters want the sort of love that they are subjecting one another to. There is the option to walk away, and yet both of them remain, willingly. Love is not some singular beauty. It exists on different planes for different people. 

[onlineantiques]

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[salonaudiovisualfrancispou-fan]

Nos encanta este director. Película disponible en #primevideo //En el Londres de la posguerra, en 1950, Reynolds Woodcock es un famoso modisto que, junto a su hermana Cyril, está a la cabeza de la moda británica. Un día, el soltero Reynolds conoce a Alma, una joven de fuertes convicciones que se convierte en su musa y su amante. Entonces, la vida de Reynolds se verá alterada por la irrupción del amor. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgkdy0lv6w3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[hattersarts]

im just saying i had a better ending for the film

#phantom thread #CRYIL WOODCOK I AM ON MY KNEES FOR YOU #cyril woodcock #alma elson

[cherubinhell]

“Lesley Manville plays Cyril Woodcock, and you’d have to be pretty foolish to not light her well. She’s a terrific actress, and she has a face that is a stop and a half brighter than everybody else’s in the movie. She has luminescent skin as they say. [...] I think when I saw the two of them sitting on the couch like this, I figured we had something good on our hands because they looked like two orphans to me who’d known each other for quite a long time.”

Paul Thomas Anderson » Phantom Thread camera tests commentary

#lesley manville #daniel day-lewis #paul thomas anderson #cyril woodcock #reynolds woodcock #phantom thread #bts

[strangerstarsandlands]

#phantom thread #cyril woodcock #alma elson #elsa please watch it I want to know your thoughts #films in 2020 #mine

[firstactproblems]

#cyril woodcock #ok but seriously #i would pay to see this #like what little I have is yours if you make this come true #phantom thread #lesley manville

[margridarnauds]

No, don’t turn it on me, I don’t want your cloud on my head.

#phantom thread #filmedit #perioddramaedit #lesley manville #movieedit #cyril woodcock #my gifs

[verypersonalscreencaps]

Lesley Manville & Gina McKee in Phantom Thread (2017, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

@andibecamehellitself  Just in case you need a little motivation for your Cyril x Countess Henrietta story 😘

#phantom thread #cyril woodcock #countess henrietta harding #lesley manville #gina mckee #paul thomas anderson #lgbt #wlw #lesleygifs:mine

[roslin]

lesley manville as Cyril »  phantom thread (2017) dir. paul thomas anderson

#filmedit #perioddramaedit #period drama #lesley manville #cyril woodcock #phantom thread #mine #she could take my measurements anytime

[cinemavariety]

The Director’s Series: Paul Thomas Anderson

The director series will consist of me concentrating on the filmography of all my favorite directors. I will rank each of their films according to my personal taste. I hope this project will provide everyone with quality recommendations and insight into films that they might not have known about. Today’s director in spotlight is Paul Thomas Anderson

#8 - Hard Eight (1998) Runtime: 1 hr 42 min     Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1             Film Format: 35mm

John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney's fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker. 

Verdict: One of the most impressive feature film debuts ever blessed to American cinema. Paul Thomas Anderson was only 25 years old when he broke into the scene and directed this (almost three years younger than me now, how depressing). While it is consistently thrilling and entertaining, Hard Eight oftentimes wears its influences on its sleeve too much. You can see how much inspiration Paul got from Tarantino with this film and it’s one of the 90s best independent movies. The star studded cast doesn’t hurt either.

#7 - Phantom Thread (2017) Runtime: 2 hr 10 min Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1 Film Format: 35mm

Renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock comes across Alma, a young, strong-willed woman, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Verdict: It’s safe to say that Phantom Thread is PTA’s most lavish and decadent film. It feels like a piece of ancient Hollywood golden-era cinema brought back to life. Johnny Greenwood’s orchestral score is the best sound work he’s ever done, it sweeps you off your feet when it goes along with Anderson’s signature arresting imagery. I’m in the minority who places this near the bottom of Anderson’s filmography, simply because Daniel Day Lewis’s character is so insufferable that it was hard for me to empathize in many ways. It still manages to be one of the most beautiful pieces of modern cinema.

#6 - Inherent Vice (2014) Runtime: 2 hr 28 min Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1 Film Format: 35mm

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry “Doc” Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend. 

Verdict: Inherent Vice is Paul Thomas Anderson’s most underrated gem. I’ll admit, when I first saw this film, I didn’t really dig it that much and immediately cast it aside as his weakest effort. However, after some maturity, a few more viewings, and also not 100% adoring Phantom Thread, I have developed an immense appreciation for this nonsensical Thomas Pynchon adaptation. Pynchon as a writer is known as being basically unadaptable, but PTA revels in the absurdity of the film’s labyrinth of a plot. It also brings PTA back to his former glory days of ensemble casts and stoner drug fueled mayhem.

#5 - Punch-Drunk Love (2002) Runtime: 1 hr 35 min Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1 Film Format: 35mm

A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.  

Verdict: Punch-Drunk Love plays out like a symphony of color, texture, and absolutely off-putting social interactions. I understand that Adam Sandler had his comeback last year with Uncut Gems, but this film is actually without a doubt the best performance he’s ever pulled off. And I credit that largely in part to the brilliance of Paul who was working behind him. It’s what I would say one of the most unconventional romantic comedies of all time. It’s nerve wracking, a little sad, super awkward - but also somehow manages to be endearing as well. The percussion heavy score brings manic energy to the whole film. Punch-Drunk Love is also a powerful statement on loneliness, unchecked mental illness, and the power of human connection.

#4 - Boogie Nights (1997) Runtime: 2 hr 35 min Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1 & 1.66 : 1 Film Format: 35mm

Adult film director Jack Horner is always on the lookout for new talent and it's only by chance that he meets Eddie Adams who is working as a busboy in a restaurant. Eddie is young, good looking and plenty of libido to spare. Using the screen name Dirk Diggler, he quickly rises to the top of his industry winning awards year after year. Drugs and ego however come between Dirk and those around him and he soon finds that fame is fleeting. 

Verdict: How this film possibly came from a director who is my age now is almost hard to believe. Boogie Nights is one of the quintessential 90s films. It has one of PTA’s best ensemble casts. Anderson’s sophomore effort was a result of the auteur finding his footing and his directorial voice that went on to enthrall audiences over several decades. PTA’s early visual motifs were lengthy and expertly choreographed tracking shots. Please refer to the scenes in the disco as well as the pool party scene pictured above for some of the best camera operation every committed to celluloid. Boogie Nights could possibly be hailed as PTA’s most consistently entertaining and audience friendly works. It’s a great story of the rise and fall of stardom.

#3 - There Will Be Blood (2007) Runtime: 2 hr 38 min Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1 Film Format: 35mm

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. 

Verdict: Most critics and audiences would agree that There Will Be Blood is the director’s most impressive masterpiece (but who’s counting?). On a storytelling and technical level, I do have to agree that this is probably Paul Thomas Anderson’s best achievement, even if it isn’t exactly my personal favorite. This is the film where PTA really matured with his directorial vision. He abandoned a lot of his earlier flashy work with large casts and a constantly moving camera for something more grounded and more of a character study. There Will be Blood is the story of America in many ways. It’s the story of Capitalism. And how this system leads to so much bloodshed, greed, and hatred as man and man compete to have the most and be the best. This movie will surely stand the test of time and is a shining example of how groundbreaking modern American cinema can be.

#2 - Magnolia (1999) Runtime: 3 hr 8 min Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1 Film Format: 35mm

An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Verdict: Paul Thomas Anderson’s third film found the director taking everything he had learned on his previous two, and expanding on that knowledge and developing more layers to his characters who have never felt so fully realized. Magnolia is the director’s magnum opus. It is epic in its length - clocking in at a little over three hours, making it his longest film by far. It is ambitious in its storytelling approach. Many films utilize the style of a variety of seemingly unrelated characters who connect to each other, oftentimes in a synchronistic fashion as they go about the trials and tribulations of their lives. However Magnolia is one of the few that did it first, did it the best, and set the bar for all of the subpar imitations that would soon follow. It’s also profoundly beautiful in the statements that PTA was trying to make. Paul, just barely 30 years old at the time when this was released, most definitely had an emotional and intellectual maturity that is rarely seen within a director of that age range. Magnolia is about redemption, loss, forgiveness, love, and trying to keep your head above water as frogs rain down on your head.

#1 - The Master (2012) Runtime: 2 hr 18 min Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1 Film Format: 35mm & 70mm

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new “religion” he forms after World War II. 

Verdict: I’ve always been drawn to films about cults. Something about social behavior and social roles within a cult organization is a really interesting study on a sociological, psychological and anthropological level. The Master takes the cult formula and turns it on its head in many ways, never once foraying into the territory of exploitation or tropes. It instead takes a wholly original approach to the story. I mean, it is Paul Thomas Anderson that we’re talking about here. Joaquin Phoenix delivers his most unhinged, and certainly his most impressive, performance of his career as a mentally damaged alcoholic war veteran with pretty severe PTSD. The Master is also in many ways the story of the founding father of Scientology - L. Ron Hubbard. However, let’s just say it is a Scientology movie “in disguise” as no real historical names are ever spoke, the word “Scientology” is never uttered once, and even the director himself refuses to admit that’s what it is about (I mean who can blame him? He once had to work with Tom Cruise). It is one of the most fascinating character studies I’ve ever seen. Not to mention, it is PTA’s most beautifully shot film in my opinion and Johnny Greenwood’s musical contributions to the score elevate this film to ultimate masterpiece status. By the end, I felt like I had just undergone a transcendent experience of sorts. I hope one day PTA can make a film that “wows” me ever more than this one does.

#the director's series #director's series #the directors series #directors series #favorite directors #cinema #film #paul thomas anderson #maya rudolph #hard eight #gwyneth paltrow #samuel l jackson #john c reilly #phantom thread #daniel day lewis #vicky krieps #reynolds woodcock #cyril woodcock #anima #johnny greenwood #inherent vice #joaquin phoenix #katherine waterson #josh brolin #doc sportello #thomas pynchon #punch-drunk love #adam sandler #punch drunk love #phillip seymour hoffman

[lezziemanville]

Please, please do not sleep on Lesley Manville. If you need help, I can make recommendations. I can set you up, I can walk you through your feelings. When you’re screaming at your television after seeing Harlots and when your heart is bursting and you’re simultaneously laughing and crying over Mum and... when you want to be railed by Cyril Woodcock....I will be here for you. Just don’t go longer without knowing more about Lesley.

#lesley manville #cyril woodcock #cathy walker #lydia quigley