Video Accepting the Critics Choice Award

Screenwriting Basics: Video of DDL, Jack Nicholson and Robin Williams on stage to accept the award for best actor - The Gangs of New York (DDL, gracious and eloquent -- the other two!!! Well, just watch)

Tamasin Day-Lewis New Cookbook

Spill: Tamasin Day-Lewis - Supper for a Song Review

The Edge of the World - Blu-ray

obsessed with film:Michael Powell's The Edge of the World review  Blu-Ray

As if this fantastic film alone wasn’t reason enough to add the blu-ray to your collection, it’s packed full of impressive extras. A full commentary from Powell’s widow, and award-winning editor, Thelma Schoonmaker-Powell and Professor Ian Christie adds enormous value to the feature and, as the icing on the cake, is punctuated by readings of Michael Powell’s book about the film by Daniel Day-Lewis" - 200,000 Feet on Foula

Ringside Storey's from the New Lodge

The Belfast Telegraph: Ringside Storey's from the New Lodge

Gerry doesn’t hold on to the disappointment for too long in the interview though and on the subject of space, divulged to me he thought they would never be able to fit all the filming equipment and camera men when filming ‘The Boxer’ — starring Academy Award winner Daniel Day Lewis. Gerry recalled: “They managed somehow to put one of those train tracks for the camera along one of the sides of the boxing ring. It was a great honour to see ‘Dan’ act — I know they get paid a lot but he was willing to do anything and work all hours —he trained really hard for the part, a real professional.”

20 actors who deserve your support

Cinema Blend: 20 actors who deserve your support - Scroll

Daniel Day-Lewis 
Lewis spent eight months learning and training for his character in The Last Of The Mohicans. This is not unusual in itself—the training—even the guys in The A Team went to Army Boot camp. But the performances of Daniel Day-Lewis are different from that of Bradley Cooper not simply because of Day-Lewis' clearly superior acting or his ability to mold dialogue (which are obviously not part of Bradley Coopers will-be-handsomer-than-thou schtick), but in the choosing of characters and the projects he picks. This becomes obvious with only one glance at Day-Lewis' Filmography. While the man has been on the radar since the mid eighties and has been given leads since '88, when he played in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in the last twenty years, he has acted in nine films. Nine, yes the same number, yes, there's a joke in there somewhere, but we're not finding it so let's move on. Suffice to say, we should support Daniel Day-Lewis, because if we don't, he might actually have to take his first role for a paycheck in decades.  I hear Phil's character needs a father in The Hangover 2. (Thanks, Ellen)

Adam Riches Rogue Males

From 2009 - Metro.co.uk: Adam Riches is fighting fit in Rogue Males

Riches' creations have a high hit rate, with his opening sequence as a self-aggrandising, boom-voiced Daniel Day-Lewis being a bladder-clenching joy.

Annie Leibowitz - A Photographer's Life

Annie Leibowitz - A Photographer's Life

The Independent: The deal for the celebrities is this: nothing will be revealed that you don't wish to reveal - except, inadvertently, your lack of taste or your rampant egotism (consider Daniel Day-Lewis, shot quarter-on and dressed up as if posing for Gainsborough).

Online Video Guide - DDL Film videos

Online Video Guide - DDL Film videos

Bomber County by Daniel Swift

Bomber County by Daniel Swift  - An idiosyncratic study of the poetry of the second world war, from Dylan Thomas to 'Little Gidding', intrigues Ian Pindar

Cecil Day Lewis came close to it in "Airmen Broadcast" ("Speak of the air, you element, you hunters / Who range across the ribbed and shifting sky"). 

Changing Tracks

The Independent ie: Changing tracks -- Radiohead drummer Phil Selway is marching to his own - very different - beat on his new solo project, he tells Eamon Sweeney

Phil is the latest member of rock's biggest and most influential quintet to stick his head above the parapet with a solo album. Thom Yorke authored the acclaimed 2006 album The Eraser and formed an ad hoc band called Atoms for Peace featuring Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Meanwhile, the classically trained multi-instrumentalist Jonny Greenwood released a soundtrack album entitled Bodysong in 2003 and also scored the Daniel Day Lewis-starring movie There Will Be Blood. An Oscar nomination for Greenwood was officially withdrawn by the Academy when it transpired that it broke the strict rule that previously written or recorded music was ineligible

Framed: There Will Be Blood

Cinematical: Framed: There Will Be Blood

Anderson is also a favorite amongst actors who thrive on the freedom to explore their characters -- to be as instinctual as he is . How else do you explain Daniel Day-Lewis as oil tycoon Daniel Plainview? There's a stillness and simplicity to Anderson's work that is a perfect match for the actor's complex and discriminating style.

IMDb Message Board

Daniel's IMDb Fan Message Board - A Question

Joining sites that use Google Friend Connect

Joining sites that use Google Friend Connect

John Updike - The New Yorker

John Updike in the New Yorker 1992 - Hostile Haircuts (Subscription needed)

A photographic look at Daniel Day Lewis' life and career by Men's Vogue

A photographic look at Daniel Day Lewis' life and career by Men's Vogue

Daniel Day Lewis - Free Radical

Vogue 2009 - Daniel Day-Lewis - Free Radical

“You get towards the end of something, even if everyone’s working flat out, and some part of you is begging for mercy, and everyone needs to finish. They’ve just used themselves up. It doesn’t matter if it’s four weeks, four months, or a year. Somebody says, ‘Well, that was it,’ and everyone starts drifting off. And it is bewildering, especially if the work you’re doing requires you to unleash a storm of conflict in your soul. You can’t necessarily just turn it off. It’s a paradox, I suppose, but it’s a very joyful thing, doing the work.”

Here is his motorbike mentioned in the Vogue article

My Top 25 of the Aughts

Silly Hats Only Blog: My top 25 of the aughts - # six

August Calendar

Here is a DDL August 2010 Calendar to print out - use white card stock if possible. A September one will follow next week

CBS Sunday Morning 2008

CBS Sunday Morning 2008 - The Mystery of Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis has a knack for turning each new role into movie gold. And in the case of his latest film, make that black gold. Just last night, the National Society of Film Critics named "There Will Be Blood" as the best picture of 2007. For our Oscar preview series, "The Red Carpet," correspondent Lara Logan talks with the award-winning actor.

Gangs of New York (Remastered) [Blu-ray]

Askmensfavorite.com: Gangs of New York (Remastered) [Blu-ray] (not a good review for the disk)

Gangs of New York

Film Script for The Last of the Mohicans

Film Script  for The Last of the Mohicans

FADE IN:The screen is a microcosm of leaf, crystal drops of precipitation, a stone, emerald green moss. It's a landscape in miniature. We HEAR the forest. Some distant birds. Their sound seems to reverberate as if in a cavern. A piece of sunlight refracts within the drops of water, paints a patch of moss yellow. The whisper of wind is joined by another sound that mixes with it. A distant rustling. It gets closer and louder. It's shallow breathing. It gets ominous.

Theme at YouTube

Michael Mann

I'm watching "Heat" again, I remembered that Mann has the magic touch for opening scenes. He grabs you then, and doesn't let go until the film is over.

Heat starts with the heist, The Last Of The Mohicans with the cabin invasion, The Insider with Pacino's wild ride to see the Hezbollah founder....He also uses many of the same actors - Wes Studi, Diane Venora, Al Pacino...

Music from his films

Celebrities who retire, do not find joy in their non-celebrity life, and make a successful comeback:

The Atlantic: Celebrities who retire, do not find joy in their non-celebrity life, and make a successful comeback: The ultimate win-win for star and fan alike—the celebrity gets the ego boost of knowing he's "still got it," while the public gets to enjoy more of the talented person's work.

Daniel Day-Lewis: Quit acting in 1997 after The Boxer to pursue his passion for wood-working, but returned to the craft five years later for The Gangs of New York, which earned him a best actor Academy Award nomination. He threatened to slip back into retirement after Gangs, but went on to make The Ballad of Jack and Rose and There Will Be Blood, for which he won an Oscar.

The Most Badass Fight Scenes EVER!

California Literary Review - The Most Badass Fight Scenes EVER! (Scroll) --

Outside, in the snowy streets of dingy nineteenth century New York, Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis in his first incredible role back from his stint as cobbler) and his gangs await the fight.

Scene from Nine - Cinema IItaliano

Namitatsu.com at : Scene from Nine - Cinema Italiano (Kate Hudson)

Bristol University

Daniel Day-Lewis: Doctor of Letters Thursday 15 July 2010 - Orator: Professor Martin White

"...Indeed, Richard Burbage, the first English actor to gain national fame and for whom Shakespeare wrote the parts of Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and King Lear, was praised for two qualities: doing things on stage as they are done in real life and for not dropping out of his character from the beginning until the end of the play, even in the dressing room. Daniel Day-Lewis isn't so different from Burbage. Of the process of creating a role he says: 'It is one of the blessings of that situation where you feel irrevocably drawn towards the discovery of an other life as your own begins to recede behind you'. And for him, that process of discovery, of letting the character's life overtake his own, involves getting as close to the experiences of that character as he can."

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood - Self-destruction writ large. Daniel Plainview - a disturbing character -- in the end, unforgettable. This film will stay in my mind for a long time, and that is not necessarily a good thing.

Collider - Interview with Paul Dano:

Was there a moment (with Day-Lewis) on There Will Be Blood or (The) Ballad Of Jack And Rose where you go, “Wow, this guy goes where nobody else goes?”

Dano: There was definitely some moments where, you know, I was going, “Holy s–t.”

Like specifically what—

Dano: Because we didn’t really rehearse and so sometimes, I didn’t know how big something that was gonna come out of him was gonna because he’s so powerful.  And I don’t really want to say specific instances.  I think you can probably imagine hearing some of the lines from that ending scene on the page (from the famous “drink your milkshake” scene of There Will Be Blood) but then, you know, the real deal is just a whole (other) level, you know, from that.  I definitely had moments like that.  It was cool.

Acceptance Speech - Best Actor

The Oscars - Day-Lewis Acceptance Speech for There Will Be Blood:

That's the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood. Thank you. My deepest thanks to the members of the Academy for whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town. I'm looking at this gorgeous thing that you've given me, and I'm thinking back to the first devilish whisper of an idea that came to him and everything since. This sprang like a golden sampling from the mad beautiful head of Paul Thomas Anderson. I wish my son and partner HW Plainview were up here with me. So many people to thank. One amongst them Mrs Plainview down there, the enchantingly optimistic and open minded Rebecca Miller. I hope that all those who I owe and who I feel the deepest gratitude will forgive me if I say simply thank you, Paul. I've been thinking about fathers and sons in the course of all this. I would like to accept this in honor of my grandfather, Michael Balcon, my father Cecil Day-Lewis, and my three fine boys Gabrielle, Ronan, and Casil.

 You Tube Video of the speech

The New Yorker Review - There Will Be Blood

David Denby - The New Yorker Review - There Will Be Blood

Daniel takes advantage of their ignorance to pay them less than they deserve, and, as he addresses a group of them, Day-Lewis’s performance comes into focus. He lowers his chin slightly, and his dark eyes dance with merriment as he speaks in coarse yet rounded tones, the syllables precisely articulated but with a lengthening of the vowels and final consonants that gives the talk a singing, almost caressing quality. It is the voice of dominating commercial logic—an American force of nature. Day-Lewis, at fifty, is lean and fit, and his scythe-like body cuts into the air as he works or stalks, head thrust out, across a field.

An American Primitive, Forged in a Crucible of Blood and Oil

The NY Times Review of There Will Be Blood: An American Primitive, Forged in a Crucible of Blood and Oil 

The actor seems to have invaded Plainview’s every atom, filling an otherwise empty vessel with so much rage and purpose you wait for him to blow. It’s a thrilling performance, among the greatest I’ve seen, purposefully alienating and brilliantly located at the juncture between cinematic realism and theatrical spectacle.

Sedona Film Festival Presents Free Films and Best of Fest in Sedona Arizona

Gateway to Sedona: Sedona Film Festival Presents Free Films and Best of Fest in Sedona Arizona

Nine: (NY Times Review - ouch)

Carl Shusterman's Immigration Update

Carl Shusterman's Immigration Update

In 2008, all four Oscar winners in the acting categories went to foreign-born persons: Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actor), Marion Cotillard (Best Actress), Javier Bardem (Best Supporting Actor) and Tilda Swinton (Best Supporting Actress)

Suite 101 Memorable Prison Films

Suite 101: Memorable Prison Films - In The Name of the Father

Michael Mann bringing director’s cut of “Mohicans” to Blu-ray

HollywoodNews.com: Michael Mann bringing director’s cut of “Mohicans” to Blu-ray

Mann has worked on an all-new, definitive director’s cut for this Blu-ray release from Twentieth Century Fox, which also will include new interviews with Day-Lewis. “The Last of the Mohicans” release is just one aspect of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment’s yearlong campaign to honor the studio’s 75th birthday. This year the division will debut several select fan-favorites on Blu-ray for the first time ever, including the “Alien” anthology, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” William Shakespeare’s “Romeo + Juliet,” “Moulin Rouge!,” and “The Sound of Music.”

Hamlet

Wikipedia: Day-Lewis returned to the stage in 1989 to work with Richard Eyre, in Hamlet at the National Theatre, but collapsed in the middle of a scene where the ghost of Hamlet's father first appears to his son. He began sobbing uncontrollably and refused to go back on stage; he was replaced by Ian Charleson before a then-unknown Jeremy Northam finished what little was left of the production's run. One rumour following the incident was that Day-Lewis had seen the ghost of his own father, although the incident was officially attributed to exhaustion. He confirmed on the British celebrity chat show Parkinson, that this rumour was true. He has not appeared on stage since.

Last of the Mohicans on Blu-Ray

DVD Active: Last of the Mohicans to be released on Blu-Ray on October

The Priority Trust

The Priority Trust - Daniel Day-Lewis our patron

Our Patron is Academy award winning actor, Daniel Day-Lewis. Priority is delighted to have secured the support of such an accomplished and well regarded professional who has great empathy with our cause:

“In 1989 when working on the film MY LEFT FOOT in which I played the writer Christy Brown, I became acutely aware of the monumental difficulties facing physically disabled children, both every day and in growing up to be who they wanted to be.

Today there are still many thousands of disabled children who do not have the right mobility equipment that will give them the independence to achieve their potential. In Kieran Prior, the Priority Trust has a founder who proves what can be achieved given the right opportunity and is an example to all of us.

The Priority Trust provides a simple, effective way to massively change the lives of physically disabled children and give them the opportunity to do what they want to do. I am delighted to be able to support Priority in helping bring about this change.”

But once we were here

Fine art Print: But once we were here

More here - DDL Drawing of Bill The Butcher

Daniel Day-Lewis NOT Yet Cast in 'Sherlock Holmes' Sequel

Ace Show Biz: Daniel Day-Lewis NOT Yet Cast in 'Sherlock Holmes' Sequel

NY Observer

The Observer's interview with Daniel Day-Lewis

(He never breaks character! He learned how to make a canoe during The Last of the Mohicans!) But Daniel Day-Lewis the man—at least on this cold December day—was relaxed, charming and quick to laugh, with long graying hair and sharp green eyes that, combined with his beakish nose, gave him the look of some exotically handsome bird of prey.