Cameron Winter Film To Premiere at NYFF; Jonny Greenwood Teases Next PTA Project!?

 

Hello!

Couple tasty morsels boomeranging around - 

1. "Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall" will make its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in just a couple short weeks! Tickets will open to the public on September 15th and NYFF's official page for the film lists its runtime at 75 minutes. 

2. In an interview with Screen Daily published yesterday, Jonny Greenwood seems to suggest that PTA is already approaching making his 11th film and they, embarking on their 7th collaboration. Here's the important parts:

“Paul is getting close to pressing the button on the next film, I believe, and I’m already trying to learn a new instrument that would be central to it..  It’s quite protracted.”

"It may well not even be a while, but he had a few ideas and I think he’s chosen one and he seems to be gaining momentum again. You think the [next] film is going to take years to do, and often they do. But then he turned Licorice Pizza around in a matter of months.”

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PTA Announces "Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall" Concert Film

 

Last December, whispers flurried of Paul Thomas Anderson's presence at Geese-frontman Cameron Winter's Carnegie Hall performance, with Benny Safide and two 35mm cameras in tow. 

Turns out, PTA was indeed shooting a concert film of Winter's performance and sounds like he's four-walling it from theatre to theatre this winter for audiences to see.

PTA has partnered with Janus & Criterion to distribute this, and we cannot wait to see it! 

Below are dates and venues for the holiday tour ho ho ho!

Nov 20

New York, NY – Village East by Angelika, BAM Rose Cinemas||
Los Angeles, CA – Aero Theater

Nov 23 

Los Angeles, CA – Los Feliz 3 Theatre

Nov 27 

Washington DC – AFI Silver Theater

Dec 2 

San Francisco, CA – Castro Theater

Dec 4 

Chicago, IL – Music Box Theater

Dec 5 

Atlanta, GA – Plaza Theater
Dallas, TX – Texas Theater

Dec 8    

Denton, TX – Fine Arts Theatre

Boston, MA – Coolidge Corner Theatre

Dec 10

Santa Ana, CA – Frida Cinema

Dec 11

Nashville, TN – Belcourt Theatre

Dec 14  

Milwaukee, WI – Oriental Theatre

Dec 17

Houston, TX – 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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Paul Thomas Anderson, 3-Time Academy Award Winner!

 

but it did happen

On the way to collecting six total statues on the evening, One Battle After Another netted our man, at long last, the first three Oscars of his career!

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Best Director:

Best Picture:

PTA's long-time casting director Cassandra Kulukundis was also recognized for her work on One Battle After Another in the first ever presentation of the Best Casting Award:

Andy Jurgensen also took home an Oscar for his exceptional work in the editing room:

Last but not least, Sean Penn received his third Academy Award for his performance as Steven J. Lockjaw, but was not in attendance.

What can you even say? If you've followed this site for as long as we've been running it, odds are you were as resigned to this day never coming as a lot of us have also been. There's something to be said about the folly of comparing art. As the man said, there is no best. We've watched this man make classic after classic after classic for decades and yet, somehow, One Battle After Another and its reception has felt like a revelation. A new strata that it barely seems fair he can reach. 

At the risk of sentimentality, it never ceases to be an absolute privilege to have eyeballs at the same time that Paul Thomas Anderson is making movies. 

He did not need the gold to prove that, but thank god the gold found him anyway.

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One Battle After Another Receives 13 Oscar Nominations!

What a run. What a year!

Today, One Battle After Another was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, capping off a truly extraordinary awards season for PTA's astounding 10th. 

The nominations are as follows:

• Best Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Benicio Del Toro
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Sean Penn
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Teyana Taylor
• Best Casting - Cassandra Kulukundis
• Best Cinematography - Michael Bauman
• Best Director - Paul Thomas Anderson
• Best Film Editing - Andy Jurgensen
• Best Original Score - Jonny Greenwood
• Best Picture - Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy, Adam Somner (RIP)
• Best Production Design - Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino
• Best Sound - José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio and Tony Villaflor
• Best Adapted Screenplay - Paul Thomas Anderson
  
  

This brings PTA's career nominations total to 14, and the film's 13 nods dwatf PTA's next-most-nominated in There Will Be Blood. I don't need to tell you what you already know about how much this film has landed. It's been racking up wins left and right since awards season began in earnest a month or two ago to show for it, and hey by the way it's hitting theatres again this week! Can never ride that river of hills too many times.

Expect a proper awards (and interviews!) roundup here in the next week --

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