Paul Thomas Anderson’s Cameron Winter Film Due In November

As expected, Cameron Winter’s buzzed-about Carnegie Hall performance is getting the cinematic treatment. Janus Films and Criterion have acquired North American rights to Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall, a concert film documenting the Geese frontman’s sold-out December 2025 solo performance at the legendary New York venue. The film’s North American 35mm theatrical tour begins Nov. 20, with additional cities to be announced. Tickets go on sale Sept. 17.

As previously reported, Winter’s Carnegie Hall performance was already slated to become Live at Carnegie Hall, his first concert album, due Oct. 9 via Partisan Records/Play It Again Sam. It features Winter alone at the piano, facing away from the audience while radically reworking material from his acclaimed solo debut, Heavy Metal.

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Now we know where the mysterious footage from that evening was headed. Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another) shot the concert on both 35mm and 16mm film, while Anderson and The Smashing Machine filmmaker/actor Benny Safdie co-produced the project. Anderson and Safdie had previously been spotted filming Winter’s Carnegie Hall performance, though its ultimate destination was then unknown.

The film’s sonic counterpart was produced, recorded and mixed by Ariel Rechtshaid, whose résumé includes Grammy-winning work with Vampire Weekend and Adele. Sara Murphy, Erica Frauman and Maggie Ambrose produced the movie.

The Carnegie Hall set represented a remarkable moment for Winter, who at 23 became one of the youngest artists ever to headline the venue’s main auditorium — edging out Bob Dylan, who was 22 when he played there in 1963. It featured three then-unreleased songs—“Emperor XIII in Shades,” “If You Turn Back Now” and “Vines”—alongside radically reimagined Heavy Metal material.

Winter continues to occupy two increasingly distinct musical worlds: Geese’s post-punk chaos on one side and the solitary, piano-driven strangeness of his solo work on the other. Geese’s Getting Killed was named the best album of 2025 by The New Yorker, NME and Stereogum, while Heavy Metal also appeared on numerous year-end lists.

Here are the screening dates for Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall:

Nov. 20: New York (Village East by Angelika; BAM Rose Cinemas)
Nov. 20: Los Angeles (Aero Theater)
Nov. 23: Los Angeles (Los Feliz 3 Theatre)
Nov. 27: Washington, D.C. (AFI Silver Theater)
Dec. 2: San Francisco (Castro Theater)
Dec. 4: Chicago (Music Box Theater)
Dec. 5: Atlanta (Plaza Theater)
Dec. 5: Dallas (Texas Theater)
Dec. 8: Denton, Tx. (Fine Arts Theatre)
Dec. 8: Boston (Coolidge Corner Theatre)
Dec. 10: Santa Ana, Ca. (Frida Cinema)
Dec. 11: Nashville (Belcourt Theatre)
Dec. 14: Milwaukee (Oriental Theatre)
Dec. 17: Houston (Museum of Fine Arts)
Dec. 19: Louisville, Ky. (Speed Art Museum)
Dec. 30: Austin, Tx. (Austin Film Society)
Jan. 1: Omaha, Ne. (Dundee Theatre)
Jan. 6: Tucson, Az. (Loft Cinema)
Jan. 15: Ann Arbor, Mi. (State Theatre)
Jan. 18: Portland, Or. (Hollywood Theatre)

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