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Paul Thomas Ander­son has direct­ed a new Radio­head video

05 Oct 2016

Words by David Jenkins

The stripped-back short for band’s new sin­gle The Num­bers’ fea­tures Jon­ny, Thom and a CR78.

Con­tin­u­ing his fruit­ful col­lab­o­ra­tion with Radio­head, direc­tor Paul Thomas Ander­son has made a video for a live ver­sion of The Num­bers’ from the band’s most recent album A Moon Shaped Pool’. Opt­ing for an even more stripped-back approach than the short for Day­dream­ing’ he shot ear­li­er this year, this has an unshowy, let-the-music-do-the-talk­ing kind of vibe to it. Which is not to say it doesn’t pack a punch.

Reduced to just Thom Yorke, John­ny Green­wood and a CR78 syn­the­siz­er, the video was filmed in a park in Cal­i­for­nia, and while the song is not exact­ly sun­ny in mood, the idyl­lic set­ting feels par­tic­u­lar­ly apt. PTA is cur­rent­ly in pre-pro­duc­tion on his next fea­ture, an as-yet unti­tled described as a dra­ma in the fash­ion world of Lon­don in the 1950s, which will see him reunite with Daniel Day-Lewis.

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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