Pavements, Alex Ross Perry’s experimental biopic-documentary on the band Pavement, has obtained its first official trailer.
Arriving in theaters across the US on June sixth, Pavements combines parts of the standard musical biopic with that of a rock documentary. The movie captures all 5 members of Pavement in 2022 as they launched their reunion tour, their very own museum, and a musical primarily based on their catalogue. All of the whereas, Joe Keery stars as frontman Stephen Malkmus in a fictitious documenting of the band’s historical past, alongside fellow actor/musician performers Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Tim Heidecker, Zoe Lister-Jones, and extra.
This biopic-style presentation of the band’s origins story was captured as Vary Life: A Pavement Story, which is each its personal separate companion film in addition to the “movie inside a movie” portion of Pavements. Vary Life obtained its first trailer earlier this month, although it doesn’t have a confirmed launch date; the trailer ends suggesting that Vary Life can be launched by itself round Christmas 2025.
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True to Pavement’s lore-heavy exploration of satire, meta-humor, and subversive aesthetics, Pavements advances upon the standard rock-doc format by way of its hybrid musical/biopic/documentary model, seemingly parodying all three kinds of filmmaking. Initially, Malkmus requested {that a} Pavement movie be made not by a documentarian, however a “screenwriter who wouldn’t write a screenplay.” Perry then signed on to craft Pavements, making an attempt to make one thing “legit, ridiculous, actual, faux, idiotic, cliché, and illogical.” After two years of post-production, the movie premiered on the Venice Movie Pageant and New York Movie Pageant in 2024.
Pavement have teased a brand new track arriving as a part of the movie’s official soundtrack, marking the band’s first new music providing in over 20 years — although the band’s Scott Kannberg described it as “not an enormous deal.” Revisit our checklist of the band’s 10 finest songs.