Joanna Newsom - "Sapokanikan" (Official Video)

Joanna Newsom – “Sapokanikan” (Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

Paul Thomas Anderson has seen enough movies, and worked with enough movie stars, to know when he should just step back and let someone’s charisma do all the work. And Joanna Newsom has that rare power to seem like a person out of time and space, able to walk down a busy New York street looking like a unicorn skipping through a meadow. The way the light works in the video is just spectacular; you could spend hours just marveling at what those fire-engine reds do to Newsom’s face. The fact that this video is not #1 is just absurd, and I apologize.