PAVEMENTS Documentary

PAVEMENTS

Screening to be followed by a conversation with actors Nat Wolff and Logan Miller and producers Peter Kline, Danny Gabai and Lance Bangs.

Alex Ross Perry’s imaginative documentary about the ‘90s-era indie rock band Pavement follows a dreamlike logic: this band should have been bigger back in the day, so why not create a world where they were, with a museum show, biopic and a jukebox musical too? Perry documents all of it – the band’s rise from underground sensations being touted as the next big thing, their subsequent implosion in 1999 and their successful 2022 reunion tour – and then some, printing the legend by actually mounting a museum show, with real artifacts from Pavement’s past displayed alongside those of humorously dubious provenance. He stages the Pavement jukebox musical “Slanted! Enchanted!” for a limited run, featuring Broadway pros, and gets rave reviews. And the band’s travails are given tongue-in-cheek dramatization in clips from the reputed biopic RANGE LIFE, featuring STRANGER THINGS’ Joe Keery as Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus, and Jason Schwartzman and Tim Heidecker as his put-upon Matador Records’ bosses. Perry’s three-sided record of a film glides between documentary, mockumentary and dream world, an elaborate inside joke that says come on in to the viewer. It’s slanted and enchanting. –Todd Hitchcock

Alex Ross Perry is known for GOLDEN EXITS (2017), HER SMELL (2018) and IMPOLEX (2009).

Stephen Reilly
Utopia Distribution
stephen@utopiadistribution.com

Details

Country: USA

Year: 2024

Director: Alex Ross Perry

Screenwriters: Alex Ross Perry, Stephen Malkmus

Producers: Craig Butta, Lance Bangs, Danny Gabai, Robert Greene, Peter Klein

Executive Producers: Robert Schwartzman, Cole Harper

Director of Photography: Robert Kolodny

Editor: Robert Greene

Production Designer: John Arnos

Costume Designer: Amanda Ford

Music: Keegan DeWitt, Dabney Morris

Cast/Featuring: Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Tim Heidecker, Zoe Lister-Jones

Running Time (minutes): 128

Language: English

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