Pavements (2025)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvR4aihyRXQ

[OnlyJapantown]

Best rock band of the 90s. Not sure I understand the premise of this movie but I'll watch it.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by OnlyJapantown

Best rock band of the 90s. Not sure I understand the premise of this movie but I'll watch it.

Part spoof part doc:

Pavements is a 2024 American experimental musical biopic concert film directed by Alex Ross Perry. It is a documentary/fiction hybrid film about the American indie band Pavement, incorporating scripted scenes with documentary footage of the band and a musical stage play consisting of songs from their discography. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2024 and is set to be released on May 2, 2025.

Described as "a semiotic experiment", the film combines elements of documentary with a spoof biopic of the band, and incorporates moments from Slanted! Enchanted! A Pavement Musical, a jukebox musical using Pavement's music. That play is about Essem, an aspiring Stephen Malkmus-like musician in a small town, who meets and falls in love with a woman named Anne, boards a train for New York City with her, is tempted by fame and glory, has an affair with another aspiring musician named Loretta, and wonders if love is worth it. The story loosely tracks the progression and themes of Pavement's works, chronologically.

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Streaming from July 11 in the US, UK, Germany, France, Canada and more.

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Originally Posted by OnlyJapantown

Best rock band of the 90s. Not sure I understand the premise of this movie but I'll watch it.

Yes: best of the 90s for sure, and the best (& last) decade for rock n roll. I saw Hendrix, the Beatles & Stones live in their prime, even Springsteen, & Weezer too, and many others, but I’ll take the 4 Pavement gigs I saw above all of ‘em for sheer rollicking fun any day. My copy arrives today. Can’t wait to revisit the band and its hijinx.