My Beautiful Laundrette

To balance the stark solitude of Anemone, we’re shining a light on Daniel Day-Lewis’s softer roles and tracing his career in reverse. After the release of Phantom Thread, in which he delivered an exquisite performance as the meticulous, controlling couturier Reynolds Woodcock, Day-Lewis announced his retirement. In The Age of Innocence, as Newland Archer, a man torn between the comfort of convention and forbidden passion, he offers a masterful exploration of repression in the face of societal expectations. In A Room with a View, as Cecil Vyse, a desperately self-conscious, pompous man whom George Emerson notes “can’t know anyone intimately, least of all a woman,” Day-Lewis brings remarkable empathy and sympathy to a character he once said “can’t open his mouth without clearing a room.” And finally, his turning-point as Johnny in My Beautiful Laundrette the performance that launched him into public awareness.
Join us in celebrating this remarkable actor with four films that span 31 years of Oscar ceremonies and earned a collective 20 nominations.