The first trailer for Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall arrived Wednesday, offering an early look at Paul Thomas Anderson's 35mm concert documentary of the Geese frontman's solo December 2025 performance. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival to near-unanimous praise. Janus Films will take it on a city-by-city U.S. theatrical tour beginning November 20, exclusively in 35mm.
Winter was 23 when he headlined Carnegie Hall, performing solo at a piano in a set drawn largely from his 2024 debut solo record Heavy Metal. Anderson brought a minimal camera setup, relying on slow zooms and deep shadows rather than conventional concert-doc staging. The resulting 72-minute film holds a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 86 on Metacritic. IndieWire described it as "a concert film up there with Stop Making Sense but for introverts." NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim called it "quite simply, a concert movie for the ages."
The 35mm prints were produced by Fotokem in Los Angeles under the filmmakers' supervision. Announced venues include the Aero Theatre in Los Angeles, the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, and the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. MUBI handles international distribution. Benny Safdie served as a producer and camera operator. Ariel Rechtshaid, who produced the companion live album Live at Carnegie Hall (out October 9), mixed and produced the film's audio as well.
It is Anderson's first film since One Battle After Another. He has directed music videos for Radiohead, HAIM, and Joanna Newsom, but Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall is a different kind of music project: immersive, undidactic, built around a single night at one of the most storied concert halls in the world.