Paul Thomas Anderson’s New Concert Film Captures Geese Frontman Cameron Winter’s Carnegie Hall Performance
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Director Paul Thomas Anderson's concert film "Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall" will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on 1 October, screening on 35mm at Alice Tully Hall with both Anderson and Geese frontman Cameron Winter in attendance. The film documents Winter's sold-out solo performance at the famed New York venue last year and represents an unusual foray into concert documentary for Anderson, best known for dramas such as "There Will Be Blood" and "Phantom Thread". NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim praised the film as capturing a "generational talent" with "the utmost sensitivity", calling it "a concert movie for the ages".
Anderson both directed and shot the film himself on 35mm and 16mm, while Grammy-winning producer Ariel Rechtshaid, known for his work with Vampire Weekend and Adele, recorded and produced the music. It was co-produced by Benny Safdie alongside Sara Murphy, Erica Frauman and Maggie Ambrose, and joins a strong 2026 NYFF line-up featuring Tony Gilroy's "Behemoth!", Ava DuVernay's closing-night documentary "14th", and further titles from Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Paweł Pawlikowski and Takashi Yamazaki. The festival, running since 1963, opens on 25 September with James Gray's "Paper Tiger", starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller.
- PTA's Cameron Winter concert film premieres 1 October at NYFF
- Shot by Anderson on 35mm/16mm; produced by Ariel Rechtshaid
- Part of 2026 NYFF line-up alongside films by Gilroy and DuVernay
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Cameron Winter is the lead singer and songwriter of Geese, a Brooklyn rock band that has built a following for its raw, unpredictable live sound. Last year he performed a sold-out solo show at Carnegie Hall, one of the world's most prestigious concert venues, stepping outside the band setting to showcase his own material.
That performance has now been turned into a concert film, shot by director Paul Thomas Anderson, who is known for acclaimed dramas such as "There Will Be Blood" and "Phantom Thread" rather than music documentaries. He filmed it himself on traditional 35mm and 16mm film, and the sound was recorded by Ariel Rechtshaid, a Grammy-winning producer who has worked with artists including Vampire Weekend and Adele.
The film is set to premiere at the New York Film Festival, a long-running annual event that showcases new cinema from established and emerging directors alongside high-profile studio and independent releases.
Full account
Paul Thomas Anderson has made a concert film capturing a headline solo performance by Cameron Winter, frontman of the New York band Geese, and the resulting work will have its world premiere at the New York Film Festival next month. Organisers have added "Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall" to the Spotlight section of the festival's 64th edition, with the screening set for 1 October at Alice Tully Hall, presented on 35mm film, and both Anderson and Winter expected to attend.
The film documents Winter's sold-out solo show at Carnegie Hall on 11 December 2025, a stripped-back performance in which the Brooklyn-based musician accompanied himself on a Steinway grand piano. According to the festival, the set underlined Winter's reputation as an idiosyncratic cabaret and art-pop balladeer, his vibrato ringing out through a hall long celebrated for its acoustics — a fitting stage, organisers suggested, for an artist already admired both as a solo performer and as the voice of Geese.
Anderson directed and shot the film himself across 16mm and 35mm stock, working with a crew that included his "Licorice Pizza" collaborator Benny Safdie, credited as a co-producer on the project alongside producers Sara Murphy, Erica Frauman and Maggie Ambrose. The music was recorded and produced for the film by Ariel Rechtshaid, the Grammy-winning producer known for his work with Vampire Weekend and Adele. NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim praised the result, calling it "a concert movie for the ages" and describing the pairing of Winter's performance with Anderson's sensitive filmmaking as a meeting of a generational talent and a director with an instinctive feel for music.
The premiere adds to a festival programme running from 25 September to 12 October, which opens with James Gray's "Paper Tiger" and also features Tony Gilroy's centrepiece selection "Behemoth!", Ava DuVernay's closing-night documentary "14th", and new work from directors including Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Paweł Pawlikowski and Andrey Zvyagintsev. Winter's Carnegie Hall triumph is not his only appearance at this year's festival: he also features in Jonathan Glazer's "Joy of Joys", another Spotlight selection receiving its world premiere at the event.
Where outlets differ
Source 1 (Deadline) focuses more narrowly on the film itself and notes that Winter also appears in Jonathan Glazer's 'Joy of Joys', another NYFF64 Spotlight premiere — a detail Source 2 omits entirely.
Source 2 (Variety, evidently) provides fuller production credits, naming Ariel Rechtshaid as music producer and listing producers Sara Murphy, Erica Frauman and Maggie Ambrose, none of whom are mentioned in Source 1.
The two accounts describe Benny Safdie's role slightly differently: Source 1 characterises him simply as part of Anderson's crew and a 'Licorice Pizza' collaborator, while Source 2 explicitly credits him as a co-producer of the film.
Source 2 situates the announcement within a much broader rundown of the festival's wider slate (including 'Godzilla Minus Zero', 'Fatherland', 'Clarissa' and others), whereas Source 1 keeps its context limited to festival dates and the Glazer connection.
Coverage
- Deadline — Paul Thomas Anderson Concert Film ‘Cameron Winter At Carnegie Hall’ Sets NYFF World Premiere
- Variety — Paul Thomas Anderson’s New Movie ‘Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall’ Sets World Premiere at NYFF