The Phantom Thread’s New Year’s Eve Party

To share and celebrate making more cherished memories in 2025, I present to you; what has become a New Year’s Eve tradition here at Observation Blogger: The New Year’s Eve party scene from Phantom Thread which currently sits at No. 23 on my all-time favourite movie list. If you would like to read my review of The Phantom Thread (2017) by Paul Thomas Anderson you can do so by clicking the reference at the end of this post.

Apart from The Phantom Thread scene below, three other notable mentions for me are the following auld lang syne movie scenes:

• When Harry Met Sally – Rob Reiner
• Cafe Society – Woody Allen
• It’s A Wonderful Life – Frank Capra

I always felt that Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will be Blood was a homage of sorts to Orson Welles and Citizen Kane and The Phantom Thread an attempt to honor and pay tribute to Ingmar Bergman. Regarding the latter, I think the New Years event below captures perfectly the awkwardness and melancholic nature of Reynolds Woodcock. It’s an insanely romantic scene although Reynolds and Alma don’t kiss at the stroke of midnight and he scorns at her for making him go out of his way and pulls her out of the ballroom. But, the fact remains that he is there with her. Is that what Alma finds charming about him? Is this is what being in love is like? I think Reynolds realises that finding himself being there is a revelation and reinforces how much he needs Alma and dare I say, truly loves her.

I’m so grateful my friends are here to celebrate the coming-in of the New Year in good cheer! To quote Bob Dylan at his Oscar acceptance speech in 2001:

God bless y’all with peace, tranquillity and goodwill.

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1. The Phantom Thread (2017) – Paul Thomas Anderson (Friday’s Finest)

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