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The funniest jokes in movies are always the unexpected ones that come in the middle of dramas. And every once in a while, there’s one that ends up catching me so off guard or hitting me in just the right way that I end up laughing for an unreasonably long time after everyone else in the theater has stopped.
Most recently, that was when I was seeing Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie, which features Daniel Day-Lewis playing a quiet but demanding and overly particular dressmaker. The movie is wonderful and generally quite serious, but it also has some truly hilarious moments as Day-Lewis’ character reveals his total self-absorption. The best being a quiet moment where he describes the pleasure of putting cream into…
