Alex Ross Perry’s New Pavement Film to Premiere at Venice Movie Pageant

Pavements, Alex Ross Perry’s hybrid biopic and offbeat documentary on Pavement, will premiere at this yr’s Venice Movie Pageant. The competition runs from August 28 to September 7, although a precise premiere date for the film has not but been introduced; Pavements will play within the Orrizonti (Horizons) competitors part. In addition to the band members, stars embody Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Zoe Lister-Jones, Michael Esper, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, and Kathryn Gallagher. The movie, in accordance with the announcement, is “a prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid,” partly documenting Pavement’s 2022 reunion tour.

First anounced in a 2022 New Yorker story, Pavements spawned the Pavement musical staged in New York that yr, footage from which options within the film. The movie is predicated on an obscure directive from Stephen Malkmus, who, per The New Yorker’s Hannah Seidlitz, “mentioned he wasn’t excited about hiring a documentary filmmaker. He needed to rent a screenwriter. However he didn’t need a screenplay.” At present’s announcement notes that the movie tracks “the preparations for a musical based mostly on their songs, a museum dedicated to their historical past, and a big-budget Hollywood biopic impressed by their saga as an important band of a technology.”

Alex Ross Perry beforehand labored on Pavement’s “Harness Your Hopes” video, in addition to a genre-spanning array of indie films. (Many, similar to his final function, 2018’s Her Scent, star Elisabeth Moss.) Perry instructed The New Yorker he needed to jot down one thing “official, ridiculous, actual, faux, idiotic, cliché, illogical,” and added, “You are taking the Todd Haynes Bob Dylan film, the Scorsese documentary, the Pennebaker documentary, and the film Dylan himself directed that everybody hates [Renaldo and Clara], and put all of them in a blender.”

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