Paul Thomas Anderson’s forthcoming concert film is buzzword bingo for fans of indie music and movies

Right as awards season kicked up at the end of 2025, before Paul Thomas Anderson took home the Best Director Academy Award for One Battle After Another, he was taking in a concert at Carnegie Hall by singer-songwriter Cameron Winter. He wasn’t in a seat, though—he was onstage, filming the show in 35- and 16-mm. The footage became Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall, a concert film that will be touring cities in the U.S. and Canada this fall after being acquired by two names familiar to film buffs: Criterion and Janus Films. The Aug. 25 announcement of the film’s rollout schedule, starting Nov. 20, became an embarrassment of riches for fans of Anderson, Winter, and a host of notable collaborators. It also became fodder for jokes about sheer number of names attached that would excite a certain type of pop culture-obsessive. Names on names Anderson is no stranger to music projects. Since 1998 he’s directed music videos for the likes of Fiona Apple, Joanna Newsom, and Haim. He also directed Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke’s short film that accompanied Yorke’s album Anima. But Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall marks his first concert film. That would be notable enough, even without a rising mu…