“We were big on MTV!” Utopia has revealed an official trailer for the film Pavements, the latest creation from NYC indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry. This is sort of a documentary, or not, more of a mockumentary, but it’s also kind of real, and kind of a fictional film. Does this band actually exist? Is this doc about their return or about them not being a real band? Who knows? Pavements is a doc film about the American indie band Pavement, which combines scripts with images of the band & a musical mise-en-scene composed of songs from their discography. It’s a prismatic, narrative, scripted, musical, metatextual hybrid. Showing the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum about their history, and a big-budget Hollywood biopic. Anchored by Pavement’s slacker-sage-sphinx, Stephen Malkmus, the film features actors Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Kathryn Gallagher, Michael Esper, Nat Wolff, and Zoe Lister-Jones, with editing by nonfiction innovator Robert Greene (Procession). I first saw this film in Venice last year and pretty much hated it – a very unfunny waste of time. But others may find more to enjoy watching this band mess around. // Continue Reading ›
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