--- title: 'London Film Festival Adds PTA Concert Film and Javier Bardem Talk' type: 'blog post' section: 'Industry' format: 'Editorial feature' standfirst: 'Paul Thomas Anderson’s 71-minute Cameron Winter film joins a late programme expansion that also brings Javier Bardem and Robert Eggers to London for career talks.' author: 'CinePixo' published: '2026-09-08' updated: '2026-09-08' about_people: - 'Paul Thomas Anderson' - 'Javier Bardem' - 'Chris Rock' about_films: - 'The Road (2009)' tags: - 'London Film Festival 2026 additions' - 'Paul Thomas Anderson Cameron Winter concert film' - 'Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall UK premiere' - 'Javier Bardem London Film Festival Screen Talk' - 'Robert Eggers Werwulf Screen Talk' - 'Mubi Cameron Winter film release' sources: - 'https://deadline.com/2026/09/london-film-festival-paul-thomas-andersons-cameron-winter-1237070157/' - 'https://www.aol.com/articles/paul-thomas-anderson-movie-lands-173620000.html' - 'https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/primetime-paul-thomas-anderson-london-film-festival-tickets-1236693221/' - 'https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/bfi-london-film-festival-new-additions-announced/ar-AA2bJnmk' - 'https://www.musicweek.com/media/read/mubi-acquires-cameron-winter-concert-film-shot-at-carnegie-hall/094908' - 'https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-festival/news/additional-titles-announced-70th-bfi-london-film-festival' - 'https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/paul-thomas-anderson-cameron-winter-130000230.html' - 'https://theplaylist.net/paul-thomas-anderson-cameron-winter-carnegie-hall-35mm-tour-20260825/' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/blog/london-film-festival-adds-pta-concert-film-and-javier-bardem-talk' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # London Film Festival Adds PTA Concert Film and Javier Bardem Talk *Paul Thomas Anderson’s 71-minute Cameron Winter film joins a late programme expansion that also brings Javier Bardem and Robert Eggers to London for career talks.* By CinePixo, 2026-09-08 · Industry The BFI London Film Festival added Paul Thomas Anderson’s *Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall* and Screen Talks with Javier Bardem and Robert Eggers to its 2026 programme on September 7. The concert film, shot during the Geese frontman’s sold-out December 2025 solo run, will receive its UK premiere when the festival begins on October 7. For filmgoers, this is more than a stray late addition: Anderson working with Benny Safdie across 35mm and 16mm is reason enough to pay attention, while Bardem arrives with two Gala films and decades of unusually fearless performances behind him. ## Paul Thomas Anderson Brings Cameron Winter to the Prince Charles *Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall* runs 71 minutes and will screen at the Prince Charles Cinema on October 7, followed by a BFI Southbank showing on October 8. It sits in the festival’s Create strand. The BFI describes the film as an intimate record of Winter alone at the piano, with Anderson and Safdie using several formats and viewpoints to catch the performance and the audience around it. That choice feels central to the attraction. A concert film can flatten a room into coverage; the prospect here is cinema attentive to the exchange between a performer and the people listening. Winter, best known as the frontman of Geese, was performing a stripped-down solo set at Carnegie Hall. Music Week reports that Ariel Rechtshaid recorded and produced the music for the film. Safdie operated a camera as well as co-producing with Sara Murphy, Erica Frauman and Maggie Ambrose. The UK premiere follows the film’s world premiere at the 64th New York Film Festival. Music Week reports that a live album drawn from the December 2025 performance will be released on October 9 through Partisan and Play It Again Sam. ![Javier Bardem at the 2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival in Santa Barbara, California.](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/f7909620-012e-4b57-91e3-be9611dbae3b.webp) *Photo: Lyn Fairly Media · [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Javier_Bardem_during_an_interview,_March_2022_(3).jpg)* ## Mubi Takes the Film Beyond North America Mubi has acquired rights to *Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall* outside North America and plans to release it on the service in 2027, according to Deadline. Janus Films and Criterion hold the North American rights. The arrangement gives Anderson’s small-scale music film a substantial distribution path. Music Week identifies Mubi as the company presenting the film internationally, while The Playlist reports that Janus and Criterion plan a North American 35mm theatrical tour beginning November 20. That analogue release suits a production photographed on 35mm and 16mm. The film began as a concentrated encounter between one musician, one hall and a set of cameras; it will now move from festival screens to theatrical projection and streaming rather than disappearing after its premieres. ![Chris Pontius performs with the impromptu band The Flying 69s at Tons of Rock 2026](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/8a7e4d08-e559-4269-946c-48a1342551b3.webp) ![Paul Thomas Anderson in 2025](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/703bcd62-2188-47de-84ad-22e2a8a5433f.webp) *Photos: Birgit Fostervold · [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chris_Pontius%E2%80%93_Tons_of_Rock_2026-1.jpg); Raph_PH · [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Thomas_Anderson_In_Conversation_-_BFI_Southbank_-_Wednesday_19th_November_2025_(cropped).jpg)* ## Javier Bardem’s Screen Talk Comes With Two Gala Films Bardem’s Screen Talk is scheduled for October 11 at Curzon Soho. The event accompanies his appearances in *The Beloved* and *Bunker*, both Gala entries at the festival, according to the BFI. There is plenty for the conversation to cover without reducing it to an awards reel. Bardem moved from Bigas Luna’s *Jamón Jamón* and *Golden Balls* to Pedro Almodóvar’s *Live Flesh*, then into international roles in *Before Night Falls*, *Collateral* and *The Sea Inside*. His Anton Chigurh in *No Country for Old Men* brought him an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe; *Biutiful* earned him the Cannes acting prize. The BFI also added Robert Eggers to the Screen Talks programme. He will appear at Vue West End on October 11, ahead of the January 1, 2027 opening of *Werwulf*. The discussion is billed as a career-spanning event covering films including *The Witch*, *The Lighthouse*, *The Northman* and *Nosferatu*. ![Javier Bardem at the 2022 Santa Barbara International Film Festival in Santa Barbara, California.](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/f09461c3-560e-4ac6-bd77-e1d766988feb.webp) ![Chris Pontius performs with the impromptu band The Flying 69s at Tons of Rock 2026](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/b59bd4e9-96d7-4902-b02e-8bd57b912980.webp) *Photos: Lyn Fairly Media · [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Javier_Bardem_during_an_interview,_March_2022.jpg); Birgit Fostervold · [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chris_Pontius%E2%80%93_Tons_of_Rock_2026-2.jpg)* ## The Late Additions Stretch Far Beyond the Headliners The festival’s new batch also includes Luca Guadagnino’s *Artificial*, Lance Oppenheim’s *Primetime*, Chris Rock’s *Misty Green*, Jonathan Glazer’s *Joy of Joys*, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s *Everest: The Other Side*, and Banjong Pisanthanakun’s *Inherit*. The range is striking. *Primetime* casts Robert Pattinson as *To Catch a Predator* presenter Chris Hansen. *Misty Green* gives Rosalind Eleazar the lead as an actress trying to revive her career, with Rock, Daniel Kaluuya and Adam Driver in the cast. Glazer and Mica Levi’s 38-minute *Joy of Joys* pairs footage made by London schoolchildren during the recording of War Child’s *HELP(2)* with daily images recorded by children in Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine and Yemen. The 70th BFI London Film Festival runs October 7–18. Simon Stone’s *Elsinore*, starring Andrew Scott, opens the event; Jesse Eisenberg’s *The Debut* closes it. Before either curtain falls, Anderson’s cameras will be fixed on Cameron Winter at a piano and the faces watching him play. ## How this piece was made **Format:** Editorial feature ## In this piece - [Paul Thomas Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-thomas-anderson) - [Javier Bardem](https://cinepixo.com/people/javier-bardem) - [Chris Rock](https://cinepixo.com/people/chris-rock) - 2009 · [The Road](https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-road-2009) ## Sources - https://deadline.com/2026/09/london-film-festival-paul-thomas-andersons-cameron-winter-1237070157/ - https://www.aol.com/articles/paul-thomas-anderson-movie-lands-173620000.html - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/primetime-paul-thomas-anderson-london-film-festival-tickets-1236693221/ - https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/bfi-london-film-festival-new-additions-announced/ar-AA2bJnmk - https://www.musicweek.com/media/read/mubi-acquires-cameron-winter-concert-film-shot-at-carnegie-hall/094908 - https://www.bfi.org.uk/london-film-festival/news/additional-titles-announced-70th-bfi-london-film-festival - https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/paul-thomas-anderson-cameron-winter-130000230.html - https://theplaylist.net/paul-thomas-anderson-cameron-winter-carnegie-hall-35mm-tour-20260825/ Every factual claim above is drawn from these. 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