Alex Ross Perry (director). Pavements . 2025. STEPHEN PICCARELLA: Do you think it’s possible to make an honest movie about a band like Pavement, and if so, how? MARK IBOLD: Of course it’s possible. How would it be possible? I’m not a filmmaker, so I don’t know what the best way . . . you know, what to recommend. In 2022, reports started rolling in one after another of improbable but fascinating tributes to my favorite band, Pavement. In coordination with a four-night stop on their reunion tour, a gallery in lower Manhattan opened “Pavements: 1933–2022,” an exhibition devoted to the ’90s alternative rock icons. A couple months later, the nearby Sheen Center debuted Slanted! Enchanted! , a jukebox musical adapting dozens of the band’s songs. Still later a cinema in Prospect Park screened an exclusive cut of a Pavement biopic called Range Life .…