Paul Thomas Anderson is sticking to his promise: he’s going to direct as many music videos or related visual events as he can for pop rock sisters HAIM. “I do music videos because the Haim girls are in my life. As long as they’re around, I’ll hopefully be doing music videos for them,” Anderson told us in an exclusive interview for “Phantom Thread” last year.
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“That’s one of the best creative relationships I’ve had in a while. I love those girls. I hope to do their whole filmography. I love them. It’s great music, they’re super charismatic to film. Everything we do is like a home movie because it’s a very familial type situation,” he added gushing over the band. Why so much love? Well, other than his genuine affection for the group, it turns out the Haim sisters’ mother was his former art teacher. Suffice to say he probably has a lot of affection for her too.
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Anderson, so far has directed videos for this songs “Right Now,” “Little Of Your Love,” “Night So Long” and the short film “Valentine.” He apparently has no plans to stop documenting them soon. At this past weekend’s Coachella festival, the “Boogie Nights” filmmaker apparently shot their gig in the hipster haven.
According to Billboard, the trio “consistently name-checking the headlining pop star [Beyoncé,] while playing crisp ‘70s-influenced bops for the robust crowd. Este Haim took reprieve from the band running through a story about catching a Coachella headlining set from Prince after Kesha gave her a chocolate-covered mushroom.”
Will we see the footage eventually? Perhaps on some kind of concert DVD doc? Hard to say, but presumably the director didn’t shoot the footage for the hell of it. Meanwhile, PTA didn’t shoot an Adam Sandler stand-up show for Netflix (though he apparently shot some footage), but the writer/director does apparently have a 600-page screenplay in-development that he hopes to cobble down into a manageable movie. More on the HAIM project when it arrives.
What a night. We opened for Beyonce!! Huuuuuuge thank you to Paul Thomas Anderson for directing our dream show ! pic.twitter.com/iMQFVhP5T2
— HAIM (@HAIMtheband) April 15, 2018
