24-03-2025
Pavement's Hybrid Doc-Biopic Gets Official Trailer: Watch
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Pavements, Alex Ross Perry's experimental biopic-documentary on the band Pavement, has received its first official trailer.
Arriving in theaters around the US on June 6th, Pavements combines elements of the traditional musical biopic with that of a rock documentary. The film captures all five members of Pavement in 2022 as they launched their reunion tour, their own museum, and a musical based on their catalogue. All the while, Joe Keery stars as frontman Stephen Malkmus in a fictitious documenting of the band's history, alongside fellow actor/musician performers Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Tim Heidecker, Zoe Lister-Jones, and more.
This biopic-style presentation of the band's origins story was captured as Range Life: A Pavement Story, which is both its own separate companion movie as well as the 'film within a film' portion of Pavements. Range Life received its first trailer earlier this month, though it does not have a confirmed release date; the trailer ends suggesting that Range Life will be released on its own around Christmas 2025.
True to Pavement's lore-heavy exploration of satire, meta-humor, and subversive aesthetics, Pavements advances upon the traditional rock-doc format through its hybrid musical/biopic/documentary style, seemingly parodying all three styles of filmmaking. Initially, Malkmus requested that a Pavement film be made not by a documentarian, but a 'screenwriter who would not write a screenplay.' Perry then signed on to craft Pavements, attempting to make something 'legitimate, ridiculous, real, fake, idiotic, cliché, and illogical.' After two years of post-production, the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and New York Film Festival in 2024.
Pavement have teased a new song arriving as part of the film's official soundtrack, marking the band's first new music offering in over 20 years — though the band's Scott Kannberg described it as 'not a big deal.' Revisit our list of the band's 10 best songs.
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