University of Missouri professor and filmmaker Robert Greene seized the chance to help make a film about his favorite band.

For director Alex Ross Perry, it boiled down to the admittedly unanswerable question of whether the band in its time could have been bigger than it was. Then he had a lightning bolt of inspiration.

Pavement have always been a singular band in every sense of the word. But the title of director Alex Ross Perry’s one-of-a-kind music documentary is plural: Pavements. That’s partly because the ...

You don't have to be a major fan of Pavement, or director Alex Ross Perry, to enjoy his exhaustive and enthusiastic two-hour-plus love letter to the beloved '90s alt-rock band. But it certainly helps.

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 ...

A multi-channel celebration of Pavement eschews the traditional music biopic format, honoring the alternative rockers who cultivated a fierce following outside the mainstream. The decadent ...

The post Alex Ross Perry’s Pavement Movie Is Very Slanted (and Even a Little Enchanted): Review appeared first on Consequence. The Pitch: In late ’80s Stockton, California, Stephen Malkmus and ...

The director Alex Ross Perry said Stephen Malkmus of Pavement told him to “avoid the legacy trap.” The result is a music documentary with made-up elements that really existed. What? By David ...

Alex Ross Perry is paying tribute to his late friend and fellow independent filmmaker Jeff Baena, who died by suicide last week at 47. In a heartfelt Instagram post Wednesday, Perry wrote ...

Director Alex Ross Perry is remembering his bond with the late Jeff Baena. “I’ve struggled for days on how to summarize my friendship with Jeff Baena into just a few paragraphs. I could write ...

In Alex Ross Perry’s exuberant tribute to Pavement, Tim Heidecker gives a succinct descriptor of what made the band a staple of college radio stations in the ‘90s: “For kids who thought ...