Director Alex Ross Perry is remembering his bond with the late Jeff Baena. “I’ve struggled for days on how to summarize my friendship with Jeff Baena into just a few paragraphs. I could write more. I ...

When Alex Ross Perry set out to make a film about Pavement, he wanted it to be as absurd as some of the ’90s slacker band’s lyrics. For the indie director, known for “Listen Up Philip” and “Her Smell, ...

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Alex Ross Perry’s new film “Videoheaven” is a unique achievement – an ode to video stores that elegantly charts the rise of the local video store, its expansion and corporatization and the ultimate ...

Director Alex Ross Perry and editor Clyde Folley tell IndieWire about putting together their video essay film on the rise and fall of the video store. Perry and editor Clyde Folley have watched movies ...

Nat Wolff and Tim Heidecker also star in the ensemble movie within a movie. Alex Ross Perry is chasing “Pavements” — that is, the fictionalized version of the band that his very real faux music ...

A multi-channel celebration of Pavement eschews the traditional music biopic format, honoring the alternative rockers who cultivated a fierce following outside the mainstream. The decadent displays of ...

Music biopics and documentaries can feel like two extremes for fans of the musicians they happen to depict. On the one hand, the Hollywood biopic simplifies and sanitizes things for a broad audience, ...

Alex Ross Perry is paying tribute to his late friend and fellow independent filmmaker Jeff Baena, who died by suicide last week at 47. In a heartfelt Instagram post Wednesday, Perry wrote, "I've ...

The small joy of getting lost in a video store for hours has become harder and harder to come by over the past decade. It’s this feeling, trying to recapture a once key part of movie culture, that ...

The worlds of Alex Ross Perry tend to thrive on confrontation. In 2014, the writer/director arrived at Sundance with Listen Up Philip, an acerbic comedy that showcased his knack for characters at once ...