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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Perhaps no line of dialogue better encapsulates lived experience than this bon mot offered by John Huston’s Noah Cross: “Of course I’m respectable. I’m old! Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all ...
Part eulogy for a bygone commercial space, part rigorous investigation of its origins and subsequent representation in popular culture, Alex Ross Perry’s Videoheaven leaves virtually no stone unturned ...
Director Alex Ross Perry’s new movie is about, according to an opening title, “The world’s most important and influential band.” The Beatles? Nay. The Beach Boys? Of course not. The Velvet Underground ...
Alex Ross Perry revealed an unexpected inspiration for “Pavements,” his experimental musical biopic concert film about the American indie band Pavement: Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning epic “Dunkirk ...