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Earlier this month, one thing actually foolish occurred. A Pavement-themed musical known as Slanted! Enchanted!<\/em> had a three-day run in New York, and it left our critic Arielle Gordon pretty nonplussed<\/a>: \u201cMaybe the awkwardness is the point. Maybe it\u2019ll all make sense in the context of some forthcoming Pavement mockumentary.\u201d Well, Gordon should be psychic. There is<\/em> certainly a brand new Pavement film on the best way, and it\u2019s coming from director Alex Ross Perry, the identical one that staged Slanted! Enchanted!<\/em> But it\u2019s not solely clear whether or not \u201cmockumentary\u201d is the suitable phrase for this cinematic endeavor. It\u2019s not clear if there is<\/em> a proper phrase.<\/p>\n Alex Ross Perry is a filmmaker with a protracted historical past of constructing music movies for indie bands: Sleigh Bells<\/a>, Vivian Girls<\/a>, Soccer Mommy<\/a>. (He\u2019s additionally a frequent and intensely entertaining visitor on numerous movie podcasts.) Perry\u2019s most up-to-date movie is 2018\u2019s Her Smell<\/em>, through which Elisabeth Moss performs a struggling \u201990s rocker. Earlier this 12 months, Perry directed a brand new video for Pavement\u2019s \u201cHarness Your Hopes<\/a>.\u201d And as a New Yorker<\/em> profile<\/a> explains, Perry is now engaged on a hard-to-define Pavement movie. Here\u2019s how author Hannah Seidlitz describes what\u2019s taking place:<\/p>\n Three years in the past, Pavement\u2019s label, Matador Records, approached Perry a few collaboration. The band needed a film, however Stephen Malkmus, the frontman, stated he wasn\u2019t fascinated by hiring a documentary filmmaker. He needed to rent a screenwriter. But he didn\u2019t desire a screenplay. \u201cNo one knew what that meant,\u201d Perry stated.<\/p>\n Perry resolved to strategy the unattainable task from unattainable angles: \u201cLegitimate, ridiculous, real, fake, idiotic, clich\u00e9, illogical,\u201d he stated, and provided a Bob Dylan analogy. \u201cYou take the Todd Haynes Bob Dylan movie, the Scorsese documentary, the Pennebaker documentary, and the movie Dylan himself directed that everyone hates\u201d \u2014 Renaldo And Clara<\/em> \u2014 \u201cand put them all in a blender.\u201d The ensuing movie will likely be a m\u00e9lange of bio-pic, museum footage, bits of Slanted! Enchanted!<\/em>, tour doc, farce, and paean. Perry formulated his personal thesis: What if Pavement, the Pynchonian rock group that by no means had a platinum report, was crucial band of all time?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Sounds bizarre! You can attempt to determine extra from that New Yorker<\/em> profile right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n