Pavements

June 12 – 15, 2025
Pavements
Pavements is a movie about Pavement the band—among other things. The latest film from acclaimed director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) is a documentary that may or may not be entirely true, may or may not be totally sincere, and may or may not be more about the idea of the band—or any band—than a history of the short-lived, passionately loved, commercially marginal Nineties American alternative group Pavement. This unconventional film about a highly unconventional band incorporates a stage musical, rock biopic, gallery exhibition, archival footage, and contemporary observational footage to create a film as irreducible, uncharacterizable, and entertaining as the band and its music. Anchored by Pavement’s slacker-sage-sphinx, Stephen Malkmus, the film features performances by Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Tim Heidecker, Kathryn Gallagher, Michael Esper and Zoe Lister-Jones, and editing by nonfiction innovator Robert Greene (Procession).
Dir. Alex Ross Perry / 2025 / US / 128 min

“It’s a reminder that the fourth (and fifth and sixth) wall can be smashed, that the rock doc can be reinvented. ” – Adam Solomons, indieWire

“This multifaceted meta-movie is at once documentary, musical comedy, faux biopic and real museum exhibition.” – Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter

“A perfectly cracked documentary.” – David Fear, Rolling Stone

SCREENING: THU 6/12 7PM; FRI 6/13 4PM; SAT 6/14 4PM; SUN 6/15 7PM

$13 GA & $10 OFS. Tickets are available at the box office 30 minutes before showtimes.

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