#113: (Pt. 2) Phantom Thread / Rebecca (1940)

The Next Picture Show

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4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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With PHANTOM THREAD, Paul Thomas Anderson has repurposed REBECCA to his own ends, telling a personal story that’s unique from the original yet still resonates with echoes of Hitchcock’s gothic romance. We tug at the many threads Anderson has woven throughout his film, before diving into what unites it with REBECCA, from the two films’ character analogs to their complementary relationships with food. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about REBECCA, PHANTOM THREAD, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: • Genevieve: William Oldroyd’s LADY MACBETH and Frederic Tcheng’s DIOR AND I • Scott: Michal Marczak’s ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS • Keith: Christopher Landen’s HAPPY DEATH DAY • Tasha: Brian Taylor’s MOM AND DAD Outro Music: Chic, “I Want Your Love” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sit in quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.2	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.4	Tea break.
0:09.4	Lunch break.
0:10.2	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.1	Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?
0:15.1	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:29.3	Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:36.2	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.8	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:49.6	Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie the Week podcast devoted to a classic film
0:53.4	in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:55.6	I'm Keith Phipps here again with.
0:57.1	Genevieve Kosky.
0:58.0	Scott Tobias.
0:58.9	And Tasha Robinson.
0:59.9	On the first half of this episode, we discussed Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, the 1940 film that brought him to America, earned a Best Picture Oscar, began a difficult relationship with David O'Selnick and assured that any movies with creepy maids would forever be compared to it. In this episode, we'll turn our attention to Paul Thomas
1:14.7	Anderson's Phantom Thread, which doesn't have a creepy maid, but it does have a Mrs. Danvers-like
1:19.4	figure in the former Leslie Mannville's Cyril Woodcock, sister of its central character, Reynolds
1:24.8	Woodcock. In fact, Anderson has freely cited Rebecca as a direct
1:28.4	influence on Phantom Thread, suggesting to Entertainment Weekly that he would be next in the line of
1:32.7	directors who tried and failed, his words, to make their own version of their movie. Yet, for all
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