The Double Negative » Pavements – Reviewed

The Double Negative » Pavements – Reviewed

Biopic, mock-doc, juke box musical, exhibition? Mike Pinnington considers director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements…  Ambivalent, ironic, alienating. There is a prolonged moment at the beginning of director Alex Ross Perry’s documentary, Pavements, where you get a sense of what it must have been like as an unwitting 1990s music journo to interview Stephen Malkmus and his band, Pavement. It feels, initially, impenetrable. And, it occurs t…