Comedy, Documentary, Music

PAVEMENTS

2024
2 HR, 8 min
JUL 11 → JUL 17, 2025

Details

Released October 2, 2024, United States

Comedy, Documentary, Music

2 hours, 8 minutes

Utopia

None

Starring

Stephen Malkmus
Scott Kanberg
Joe Keery
Jason Schwartzman
Nat Wolff

Director

Alex Ross Perry

Film Information

An examination of the iconic 90s indie band, PAVEMENTS appears to be just another music documentary, until it doesn’t. A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation.

Film Stills

Full Cast

Stephen Malkmus

Scott Kanberg

Joe Keery

Jason Schwartzman

Nat Wolff

Additional Credits

Alex Ross Perry Director

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Reviews

“Splicing together real archival video, fake documentary footage about the making of a fake biopic, and real conversations with the present-day band, PAVEMENTS is delightfully chaotic.”

Sasha Geffen

NPR

“It’s a reminder that the fourth (and fifth and sixth) wall can be smashed, that the rock doc can be reinvented. And that when the message is meta for meta’s sake, why not make the medium that way, too?”

Adam Solomons

IndieWire

“A joyous, slyly subversive celebration that, while unlikely to persuade newcomers to the music, nevertheless catches the band’s wayward spirit, as well as the downright ordinariness that came as an alternative to the bloated rock band ethos.”

Jonathan Romney

Screen International