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Alex Ross Perry on his Pavement documentary: ‘The concept was an absurd notion that this band would ever go gold or platinum’
Stephen Malkmus, the frontman of indie rock’s least-bothered legacy act, had just one stipulation for the film: that it be ...
Pavements review: Brilliantly unclassifiable salute to the 1990s indie-rock legends Pavement
Alex Ross Perry’s film is framed around Pavement’s 2022 reunion tour, but it quickly spirals outwards into giddy metafiction ...
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Review: 'Pavements' is a music biopic like no other
This meta music bio-pic examines the career and music of Pavement through concert and vintage footage, a museum show, a ...
Four new films to see this week: Pavements, Armand, Superman and Modigliani – Three Days on the Wing of Madness
Johnny Depp directs, and Al Pacino, David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Pavement appear in a quartet of movies released in ...
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Pavement and the curious case of the rock documentary
The latest entry into the Pavement legend is part parody, part music biopic, part hybrid fiction and nonfiction, and almost wholly in a category all its own.
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How the Director and Stars of ‘Pavements’ Brought Many Stephen ...
Writer-director Alex Ross Perry and stars Joe Keery and Michel Esper discuss their documentary-biopic-jukebox musical mashup and the magic of one of indie rock’s most celebrated frontmen ...
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Alex Ross Perry - Moviefone
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alex Ross Perry is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He graduated from NYU's film program in 2006. Perry's first feature, Impolex, premiered ...
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This Is Spinal Tap invented the rockumentary – and its influence is everywhere you look
While Pavements is ostensibly about Pavement, Malkmus’s lo-fi American indie group, it is also – arguably mostly – about the shortfalls and pitfalls of the rockumentary itself. It dismantles the genre ...
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Pavement Members Talk ‘Wild’ Format of ‘Pavements’ Biopic ...
If you were a fan of Pavement in the 1990s then it probably won’t surprise you that when time came to make a biopic of the quintessential indie slacker rock band director Alex Ross Perry (Her ...
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Pavements plays at the Hi-Pointe Theatre from June 2-5.
The band Pavement has always straddled the line between sincerity and irony, whether in interviews, music videos, or their own songs. So it’s only fitting that director Alex Ross Perry’s new film, ...
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Alex Ross Perry - The New York Times
The director Alex Ross Perry said Stephen Malkmus of Pavement told him to “avoid the legacy trap.” The result is a music documentary with made-up elements that really existed. What? By David ...
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Darlings on the split screen: 'Pavements' explodes the music movie
Movies about musicians love to hit the same melodramatic beats about fame and genius. Important but not quite famous, the '90s indie band Pavement is the exception that unbalances the formula.