Phantom Thread
Date: 2017
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Production Company: Focus Features, Annapurna Pictures, Perfect World Pictures
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps
Location(s): Gloucestershire, London, North Yorkshire
Region(s): London O-Q, Rest Of The World, South West
Storyline:
In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker’s fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman who becomes his muse and lover.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
- 18 Aug 2019
Inside his rooms, dress designer Reynolds Woodcock dresses before breakfast. Fitzroy Square in London W1.
Now with The Euston Tower "untippexed" out. SJ
- Capture 2
- 18 Aug 2019
The camera tilts down the frontage of The House of Woodcock.
The railings are in mid-repaint. Also seen in Mrs. Dalloway, The Heart of Me and Vera Drake as London Movie Guide mentions. SJ
- Capture 3
- 23 Feb 2019
Waiting to begin work, Seamstresses queue to gain entry at the rear of the fashion house. Grafton Mews in W1 with Grafton Way visible through the passage to the left.
No seamstresses in Peter's view of the mews.
- Capture 4
- 27 Jun 2019
At his sister Cyril's suggestion, Reynolds motors to the country. Looking east on High Street in Lythe, North Yorkshire.
Chris Whitehead provides the same location now some two years on. (RL)
- Capture 5
- 27 Jun 2019
Driving his Bristol 405 at speed through the night, Reynolds slows to turn onto a garage forecourt. High Street in Lythe with St. Oswald’s church in the right distance.
A little changed view from Chris. (RL)
- Capture 6
- 27 Jun 2019
Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) wakes the garage Proprietor. In reality, the garage was a metal works at the time of filming and the forecourt was dressed for the production.
This shot from Chris suggests that it is now the entrance to Lythe Caravan and Camping Park.(RL)
- Capture 7
- 09 Jul 2019
The dressmaker walks to the Victoria Hotel where he finds Alma serving breakfasts. Facing south on Station Road in Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire.
Chris Whitehead provides the view as it is now, one wonders whether those road signs are new or were taken down for the filming. (RL)
- Capture 8
- 23 Jul 2022
After asking her to join him for dinner that evening, Reynolds meets Alma Elson (Vicky Krieps) outside the hotel. Station Road, Robin Hoods Bay.
Chris Whitehead returned in daylight for this comparison.
- Capture 9
- 'Now' required
Following dinner, Reynolds takes Alma back to his country home. The east front of Owlpen Manor in the village of Owlpen near Stroud, Gloucestershire.
- Capture 10
- 16 Mar 2020
With Reynolds taking a shine to the young waitress, the two walk through village streets. High Street in Staithes, North Yorkshire.
After six months of bad weather and crowds, Allan Thomson finally captured the High Street.
- Capture 11
- 02 Feb 2020
A longer shot of the Woodcock's country house. The Grade I listed Owlpen Manor in Gloucestershire.
Adrian Turner was visiting the manor last year and took this closer shot which includes the Church of the Holy Cross which was edited out of the film's view
- Capture 12
- 'Now' required
After their wedding, Reynolds and Alma take breakfast on the balcony of their hotel. Overlooking Lake Brienz from the Grandhotel Giessbach at Brienz in Bernese Oberland, Switzerland.
- Capture 13
- 'Now' required
The couple move on to Hotel Bellevue des Alpes at Kleine Scheidegg in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. The hotel was also seen in ‘The Eiger Sanction’ and ‘North Face’.
- Capture 14
- 'Now' required
Looking up from his book, Reynolds watches as Alma goes walking with a group of hotel guests. In front of Hotel Bellevue des Alpes in Kleine Scheidegg.
- Capture 15
- 'Now' required
Cyril Woodcock (Lesley Manville) sits with her brother as Alma approaches with a perambulator.