WATCH: PTA-Directed Music Video For Joanna Newsom's "Divers"

Now that it has completed its theatrical run, Paul Thomas Anderson's 7-minute video for Joanna Newsom's "Divers" has made its way online and can be viewed right up there.

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New PTA-Directed Joanna Newsom Video To Screen Theatrically This Month

Paul Thomas Anderson has quietly helmed another music video in support of Joanna Newsom's upcoming album Divers, and it is going to screen across the United States from October 16-22. The video is for the title track and, like PTA's video for Sapkanikan, it was filmed in New York City. However, instead of using bustling NYC streets for locales, this new video was reportedly shot in the studio of artist Kim Keever (via Pitchfork).

We will revisit this post with more information about the screenings as they become known.

In other news, three days until the world gets a hold of this...

UPDATE: Stereogum has a full list of participating movie theatres screening the video:

New York, NY @ IFC Center

Yonkers, NY@ Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers

Huntington, NY@ Cinema Arts Centre

Los Angeles, CA @ The Cinefamily

Los Angeles, CA @ Ahrya Fine Arts

Pasadena, CA @ Laemmie Playouse 7

San Jose, CA @ Camera Cinemas

San Francisco, CA @ Castro Theatre

San Luis Obispo, CA @ Palm Theatre

Grass Valley, CA @ Sutton Cinema

Grass Valley, CA @ Sierra Cinemas

Grass Valley, CA @ Del Oro Theatre

Nevada City, CA @ Magic Theatrea

Tucson, AZ @ Loft Cinema

Denver, CO @ Alamo Drafthouse Littleton

Boulder, CO @ International Film Series, UC Boulder

Miami, FL @ O-Cinema

Boston, MA @ Coolidge Corner

Seattle, WA @ SIFF � Egyptian Theater

Bellingham, WA @ Pickford Film Center

Portland, OR @ Cinema 21

Eugene, OR @ Bijou Cinemas

Pittsburgh, PA @ Regency Square Theater

Ashburn, VA @ Alamo Drafthouse One Loudon

Winchester, VA @ Alamo Drafthouse Winchester

Austin, TX@ Alamo Drafthouse Ritz

Austin, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline

Austin, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Village

Austin, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane

Austin, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

Dallas, TX @ Texas Theatre

Dallas, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Richardson

Houston, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Mason Park

Houston, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Vintage Park

Laredo, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Laredo

Lubbock, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Lubbock

New Braunfels, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Marketplace

San Antonio, TX@ Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes

San Antonio, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Park North

San Antonio, TX @ Alamo Drafthouse Stone Oak

Kansas City, MO @ Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet

Ann Arbor, MI @ Michigan Theater

Kalamazoo, MI @Alamo Drafthouse Kalamazoo

Columbia, SC @Nickelodeon Theatre

Nashville, TN @ Belcourt Theatre

Salt Lake City, UT @Salt Lake Film Society

Tulsa, OK @ Circle Cinema

Scottsbluff, NE @ Midwest Theater

Raleigh, NC @ Colony Theater

Winston-Salem, NC @ a/perture Cinema

Columbus, OH @ Gateway Film Center

Chicago, IL @ Music Box Theatre

Champaign, IL @ Art Theatre Co-Op

Paducah, KY @ Maiden Alley Cinema

Arhus, Denmark @ �st For Paradis

London, UK @ Rio Cinema

Munich, Germany @ Monopol

The video will also screen in the UK on October 27:

London, UK @ Clapham Picturehouse

London, UK @ East Dulwich Picturehouse and Cafe

London, UK @Greenwich Picturehouse

London, UK @ Hackney Picturehouse

London, UK @ Picturehouse Central

London, UK @ Ritzy Brixton

London, UK @ Stratford East Picturehouse

Bath, UK @ The Little Theatre Cinema

Bradford, UK @ Picturehouse at National Media Museum

Brighton, UK @ Duke�s at Komedia

Edinburgh, UK @ Cameo

Exeter, UK @ Exeter Picturehouse

Henley, UK @ Regal Picturehouse

Norwich, UK @ Cinema City

Liverpool, UK @ Picturehouse at FACT

Oxford, UK @ Phoenix Picturehouse

Southampton, UK @ Harbour Lights Picturehouse

Stratford-upon-Avon, UK @ Stratford-Upon-Avon Picturehouse

York, UK @ City Screen

New PTA-Directed Music Video For Joanna Newsom Arrives

Paul Thomas Anderson has quietly directed a music video for a single off of his Inherent Vice star Joanna Newsom's new album Divers. The tune is called "Sapokanikan". Dig it!

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PTA Gives First Interview On Inherent Vice, Hints At Pynchon Cameo, Ending Change

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

A splendid read found its way over to The New York Times today, and it has Paul Thomas Anderson speaking out publicly for the first time about his work Inherent Vice. 

The piece, among other things, asserts that the notoriously elusive author behind the film, Thomas Pynchon, will actually have a cameo appearance in the picture. PTA remains coy about that fact, while other sources (including Brolin) maintain its truth.

In discussing what drew him to the project, PTA said he had been aspiring to adapt Pynchon for a while.

Years ago, Mr. Anderson considered adapting [Pynchon's 1990 novel] "Vineland," but ultimately couldn't figure out how. When "Inherent Vice" was issued in 2009, he was drawn to it - and wrote the film concurrently with his script for 2012's "The Master."

"I thought, I don't need to make a movie about California in the late '60s, early '70s!  Didn't I already do that?" Mr. Anderson said, referring to his 1997 breakthrough, "Boogie Nights," "Well, I didn't. Like gravity, it didn't pull in any but one direction. And I just couldn't help myself."

Todd Heisler/The New York Times

On the process of adapting the novel:

To get a grip on the project, [PTA] adapted the entire 384-page novel sentence by sentence. "I basically just transcribed it so I could look at it like it was a script," he said. "It looked like a doorstop. But I can understand this format. As big as it was, it was easier for me to cut down."

Along with The Long Goodbye, PTA was also inspired by Kiss Me Deadly and The Big Sleep, film noirs whose "plausibility rarely mattered as much as the pleasure of the filmmaking."

� �North by Northwest�?� he said. �Tell me again how he gets to the middle of the field with a plane after him? I can�t. How does he get to Mount Rushmore? I don�t know, but it�s great.�

Mr. Anderson said his adaptation came into focus when he recalled an old quote from �Chandler or Hammett or one of those guys who said the point of a plot in a detective movie is to get your hero to the next girl to flirt with.� After that, he said, his approach became, �When�s the next girl or funny bit going to happen?�

On top of those more formal influences, PTA turned to the sight gags and physical comedy of Zucker Bros. films as a filmic equivalent for the humor in the book.

�I thought,� Mr. Anderson explained, �What�s something I�ve seen that can get close to that amount of great visual information and all these things going on in the frame?�

� �Police Squad!� and �Top Secret!� are what I clued into,� he said, referring to collaborations by the slapstick maestros David and Jerry Zucker. �We tried hard to imitate or rip off the Zucker brothers� style of gags so the film can feel like the book feels: just packed with stuff. And fun.� 

The piece goes on to verify that musician Joanna Newsom, whom we reported was participating in the film many months ago, is playing the part of Sortil�ge, also narrating the film. According to the interview, PTA also wrote a new ending for the movie, its biggest difference from the book.

There are some nice quotes from Joaquin Phoenix and Josh Brolin in the piece, as well as PTA discussing the underlying sadness of the material. Read it in its entirety RIGHT HERE.

Wilson Webb

P.S. If you take a wander over to this page, you'll see that information regarding the first trailer for Inherent Vice has been disclosed in Alberta. We've had some correspondence with the ratings board there and can verify that, in Canada at least, the Inherent Vice trailer is very real and runs just over two minutes in length. What we are not quite sure of yet is when or how it will drop. We imagine it will be sooner rather than later.

IV (theatrical premiere): 77 days

IV (world premiere at NYFF): 8 days (!)

Find more information about the film on our Inherent Vice page. 

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Singer/Songwriter Joanna Newsom Reportedly In For 'Vice', Too

Well how 'bout that.

Just one day after a lengthy news update on Inherent Vice, wherein a couple of you pointed out in the comments section that someone who looked suspiciously like singer/songwriter/harpist Joanna Newsom was seen in some recent set photos, The Playlist is reporting that singer/songwriter/harpist Joanna Newsom will in fact be in the motion picture, citing that very photographic evidence as apparently good enough to confirm an acting role.

Though it's not known who she will play, this will mark Newsom's feature-film debut, after having done a cameo on Portlandia last year. Whether she was brought to PTA's attention through her work with Maya Rudolph's former Saturday Night Live colleague Fred Armisen on that show, or through Newsom's fianc� Andy Samberg -- another old SNL colleague of Maya Rudolph's -- or through some other as-yet-undisclosed channel, this is yet another inspired casting stroke in a long line of truly inspired casting strokes for the film.

Here's JN performing "Sawdust & Diamonds" off her 2006 album "Ys" at The First Unitarian Church Sanctuary in Philadelphia, PA.

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