Perhaps no movie playing at Venice this year was as shrouded in mystery as Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements. We knew it would have something to do with Pavement, the critically beloved but only moderately ...

Hear 11 songs to prep for the band’s bizarro documentary, “Pavements.” By David Renard This past Friday one of the more bonkers music documentaries ever to hit screens arrived: “Pavements,” the ...

When Alex Ross Perry set out to make a film about Pavement, he wanted it to be as absurd as some of the ’90s slacker band’s lyrics. For the indie director, known for “Listen Up Philip” and “Her Smell, ...

There are, of course, real individuals behind the construct of the music star, people who become synonymous with their celebrity projections though they are not one and the same. And these people are, ...

“I always was hoping that it was music for the future. I mean, I think everyone who’s not that successful in their time tries to think that,” says Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus early on in ...

When it comes to music documentaries, the bar is low—some new footage, a long-unseen live performance, maybe a fresh anecdote or two—and yet rarely cleared. For Pavement fans, though, Louder Than You ...

Music biopics and documentaries can feel like two extremes for fans of the musicians they happen to depict. On the one hand, the Hollywood biopic simplifies and sanitizes things for a broad audience, ...

The lead-up to, and content of, the Pavement-focused film Pavements may have been completely baffling, but the beloved rock band is shedding some much-needed light on the proceedings by announcing a ...

The much-anticipated Pavement movie, titled Pavements, will make its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival with three screenings: October 2 at 8:30 PM, October 4 at 11:30 PM, and ...