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Pavements
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Sat 2 Nov 9:30 PM
Palace Nova Eastend: ExiMax
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128 Mins | 2024 | South Australian Premiere | United States | Director: Alex Ross Perry | Documentary | Feature | Hybrid | Music on Film | Special Presentations | World Documentaries | World DocumentaryAlex Ross Perry’s Pavements blends multiple genres to create a fitting tribute to the band that captured the slacker zeitgeist of the alt-rock era.
A prismatic hybrid of narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, and metatextual forms, 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.
With playful performances from Stranger Things star Joe Keery preparing for the role of Stephen Malkmus and Jason Schwartzman as the band’s exhausted manager, Pavements is both an ode to the iconic band and music films itself.
A prismatic hybrid of narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, and metatextual forms, 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.
With playful performances from Stranger Things star Joe Keery preparing for the role of Stephen Malkmus and Jason Schwartzman as the band’s exhausted manager, Pavements is both an ode to the iconic band and music films itself.
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