Iman is still raving about Fiona Apple’s show at Governors ball – as everyone else by the way – that the songstress has already embarked for a long tour till October. Meanwhile, according to Paul Thomas Anderson’s fan site Cigsandredvines, it seems that the filmmaker has stayed in very good terms with her ex-girlfriend Fiona Apple, and has been working on a video for one of her new songs, as it was reported in V Magazine:
‘I have this weird thing where I’m friends with my ex-boyfriends, and I really care about them. I care about their lives with their girlfriends. I feel like maybe an annoying mother or something.” Among these exes are illusionist David Blaine, in whose office/apartment Apple crashes when in New York, filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, who started to make a video for Apple’s new song “Hot Knife” before having to work on a movie, and most notably writer Jonathan Ames, the subject of one of the album’s sweeter tracks, ‘Jonathan’.’
There is a long connection between the two, if you watch ‘Magnolia’, many of the paintings you can see throughout the movie were made by Fiona and you will notice a ‘for f. a.’ at the end. PTA also directed a few of her videos in the past (‘Fast As You Can’, ‘Paper Bag’), and it is thus a good thing for us that the two have remained good friends! PTA is an interesting choice for directing a video, as he has a unique way to use music in his films, turning up the volume plain loud, and making the music another character, Magnolia had that cosmic-operatic dimension because of the music!
But the director has been busy lately, finishing his movie ‘The Master’, and it is possible he had started working on this video beforehand as Apple’s album has actually been finished a long time ago; we can just speculate he will finish up the video soon!
Now ‘Hot Knives’ is a catchy song, quite different from the rest of the songs of the album, truly upbeat and exhilarating with its polyphonic chorus, it’s almost tribal chant but it’s totally hers too… ‘If I'm butter, then he's a hot knife/ He makes my heart a cinemascope’ she repeatedly sings in the song, 'cinemascope' seems a totally appropriate word in this case and it is just too funny she used this butter metaphor again in an interview to describe her relationships, declaring, ‘Men are my bread and butter’!