Film at Lincoln Center has added the world premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall to the Spotlight section of the 64th New York Film Festival. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with Rolex, the 64th New York Film Festival will take place from September 25 through October 12. The film will debut on October 1 at Alice Tully Hall on 35mm with Paul Thomas Anderson and Cameron Winter in attendance.
Even for those who already admired the talents of Brooklyn’s own Cameron Winter, both as a solo artist and as the front man of the band Geese, his performance at Carnegie Hall on December 11, 2025, was a revelation. A stripped-down set in which he accompanied himself on a Steinway grand, the show cemented Winter’s status as a one-of-a-kind cabaret art-pop balladeer, his soaring vibrato resonating throughout a theater known for its legendary acoustics. Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson was there with a crew, including his Licorice Pizza collaborator Benny Safdie, to capture this major star-is-born moment, and the result is a smashing cinematic concert, shot on 16mm and 35mm with a perfect mix of intimate images of Winter and of the cavernous space, keyed into the singer-songwriter’s effortless combination of bravado and sensitivity, darkness and light. A Janus Films and Criterion release.
NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim said: “A generational talent delivers a mesmerizing performance before a rapt audience in an iconic venue, and a filmmaker with a rare and instinctive feel for music captures it with the utmost sensitivity: Paul Thomas Anderson’s document of Cameron Winter’s Carnegie Hall triumph is, quite simply, a concert movie for the ages.”
Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall continues Paul Thomas Anderson’s history with the New York Film Festival and Film at Lincoln Center. Boogie Nights was an NYFF35 Main Slate selection; Punch-Drunk Love was the NYFF40 Centerpiece selection; Inherent Vice world premiered as the NYFF52 Centerpiece selection; and Anderson’s first music documentary, Junun, world premiered at NYFF53. Most recently, Film at Lincoln Center held the New York premiere of his six-time Academy Award–winning One Battle After Another on 70mm, featuring the director and cast in attendance, and presented 70mm screenings of Boogie Nights, The Master, and Inherent Vice at the Walter Reade Theater. Cameron Winter is also featured in Jonathan Glazer’s Joy of Joys, an NYFF64 Spotlight selection making its world premiere at the festival.
The NYFF Main Slate and Spotlight selection committee is chaired by Dennis Lim, NYFF Artistic Director, and includes Florence Almozini, Justin Chang, and Rachel Rosen. Violeta Bava, Michelle Carey, K. Austin Collins, and Antoine Thirion are NYFF program advisors.
NYFF64 is generously supported by Festival Co-Chairs Susannah Gray and John Lyons, Susan and John Hess, Almudena and Pablo Legorreta, Imelda and Peter Sobiloff, and Nanna and Dan Stern; Vice-Chairs Jack Heller, Tara Kelleher and Roy Zuckerberg, and Ronnie Planalp; and Supporters Viviana and Guillermo Bichara, Great Hill, Kathy and Kris Heinzelman, Wendy Keys, Hillary Koota Krevlin and Glenn Krevlin, Marcia DB Levy and William G. Levy, Ari Rifkin, and Mary Solomon / GS Gives.
Explore the NYFF64 lineup and schedule here. Pass holders and FLC Members receive NYFF64 pre-sale access (pre-sale dates vary by level). Passes are on sale now in limited quantities. NYFF64 single tickets will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, September 15 at noon ET.
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