by Alex Ross Perry
Pavements
Documentary / USA / 128 min / 2024
How better to sum up the iconic indie band Pavement than with a mockumentary-musical hybrid? The eclectic director Alex Ross Perry (Golden Exits, Her Smell) ensures that the music documentary genre will never be the same again.
Director & Writer: Alex Ross Perry (with Stephen Malkmus as co-writer)
Cinematography: Robert Kolodny
Editing: Robert Greene
Music: Pavement, Keegan DeWitt, Dabney Morris
Cast Highlights:
Pavement (Stephen Malkmus, Scott “Spiral Stairs” Kannberg, Mark Ibold, Steve West, Bob Nastanovich)
Joe Keery (as Stephen Malkmus in the mock biopic)
Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman (members in staged biopic scenes)
Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker (portray label figures)
Michael Esper, Zoe Lister-Jones, Kathryn Gallagher (appear in the theatrical musical segment)