A documentary by Alex Ross Perry examines how movies and TV have portrayed video store culture.
Category: Perry, Alex Ross
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‘Pavements’: A Sly Ode to the Last Band You’d Give the Biopic Treatment
Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing.
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‘Pavements’ Blurs Fact and Fiction to Reimagine a Band’s Legacy
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?