‘Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall’ Review: PTA’s Spellbinding Concert Doc Is a Gorgeously Tender Performance — SkimNews
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- Paul Thomas Anderson filmed Cameron Winter's December solo Carnegie Hall performance himself on a Panavision camera, producing a 72-minute concert documentary now being distributed roadshow-style by Janus Films and described as likely to land on the Criterion Collection.
- Cameron Winter performed to a sold-out crowd of more than 2,700 at Carnegie Hall in December, when he was 23 — one year older than Bob Dylan was at his own Carnegie Hall headline — running through sparse piano arrangements from his solo album "Heavy Metal."
- Janus Films will release "Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall" in theaters starting November 20, following the film's world premiere at the New York Film Festival's Alice Tully Hall.
- Benny Safdie is credited as a co-producer on the film, with the review linking the production's "scratchy New York quality" to his imprint.
- The film captures renditions of Winter's indie hit "Love Takes Miles" and the single "$0," which the review says takes on a "wrenchingly somber quality" in stripped-down form.
- The review frames Winter as a singular figure whose band Geese is "rapidly becoming one of the most popular contemporary art rock bands of these times," likening the concert film to "Stop Making Sense" but for introverts.
Why it matters: Cameron Winter, 23 and fronting a band the review calls 'rapidly becoming one of the most popular contemporary art rock bands,' lands a PTA-directed concert film distributed by Janus Films and pointed toward Criterion — an institutional endorsement the review explicitly frames by comparing Winter's Carnegie Hall moment to a young Bob Dylan's.
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