Not every concert film gets the kind of rollout that “Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall” is enjoying this fall — direct-to-streaming releases are far more common than 35mm roadshows these days. But they don’t all have a figure like Geese frontman Cameron Winter as their subject and a filmmaker like Paul Thomas Anderson directing. Throw in the fact that “Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall” also boasts Benny Safdie as a producer (and camera operator!), and it’s not hard to see why cinephiles and music geeks alike are dying to see it. But if you’re somehow still on the fence, there’s a new trailer to persuade you.
The new trailer offers a brief tease of the instantly-iconic concert, in which Winter headlined Carnegie Hall for one night only at the age of 23. The setlist primarily pulled from his solo album “Heavy Metal,” showcasing a different side of the artist that doesn’t always come through at his bigger Geese shows.
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“Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall” appropriately debuted at the 2026 New York Film Festival, where many critics praised it for capturing a rising rock star at his best with an auteur’s touch.
“The matted-hair, lithe Winter can seem a bit uncomfortable in his own skin in the public eye, as he did onstage ahead of ‘Cameron Winter at Carnegie’ at its New York Film Festival world premiere at Alice Tully Hall,” IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio wrote in his review. “But on the piano, laser-beamed into his songcraft, he’s quietly electrified, seemingly at peace as his tenorous vocal glissando and nimble fingerwork on the piano produce shiveringly tender folk ballads that echo Harry Nilsson and Van Morrison. (The usual comparisons to Tom Waits and Rufus Wainright are right, too, but Winter is his own strange thing.) If you weren’t previously sold on the wily Winter antic rock chaos of Geese — rapidly becoming one of the most popular contemporary art rock bands of these times — you’re about to. Paul Thomas Anderson has created a rhapsodic shrine to the man that is nonetheless ballad-sized in its emotional scale.”
The review continued, “The result is hypnotic, a concert film up there with ‘Stop Making Sense’ but for introverts. Songs like the popular single ‘$0’ acquire an even more wrenchingly somber quality as a lovelorn protagonist rues being exploited by a relationship (‘You’re making me feel like a dollar in your hand / You’re making me feel like I’m a zero dollar man’). Stripped of production, his indie hit ‘Love Takes Miles’ plays even better. While many of the songs sort of hover in the same key and bleed into one another, that makes for an all the more transfixing experience. The lack of an interstitial anything save for a sweet prologue and moving coda make for an experience also that’s immersive, deep, and the kind whose truth you can feel somewhere in your body even if you can’t quite articulate it.”
Audiences can catch “Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall” via a roadshow of 35mm screenings across the country starting on November 20. Watch the official trailer below.