Underplayed Gems

Slow Century (2002)

Slow Century poster
Original title
Pavement: Slow Century
Directed by
Dan Koretzky, Tom Surgal, Lance Bangs, Spike Jonze
Genre
documentary, music
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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This is a two disc DVD set about the band Pavement. The first disc has a feature length documentary with interviews and concert footage. The second disc is full live performances from their final tours.

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What happens

Slow Century is a two-disc DVD retrospective of the band Pavement filmed and compiled by filmmaker Lance Bangs. The first disc contains Slow Century itself, a 90-minute documentary with extensive interviews with the band members (as well as their friend Thurston Moore) and considerable live concert footage from across their career featuring throughout; indeed, the film concludes with the encore from their final live show, held in London in 1999. There is also a presentation subtitled Cinema Stars (written using a star symbol rather than the word "star") featuring all their videos, as well as alternate and rejected clips for three songs. Interspersed throughout are brief clips from home movies, television appearances and behind-the-scenes footage. The second disc is entirely composed of live footage with a full concert from Seattle, Washington (July 1999) and edited highlights from the group's second last show in Manchester (11/1999). Across the two discs, there is a total of six hours of footage. There is band member and director commentary on each video and multiple angles on the second disc, and it is presented in Dolby stereo. Directed by Lance Bangs, except: Kim Gordon (directed "Perfume-V" video) Thurston Moore (directed "Here" video) Dan Koretzky (directed "Cut Your Hair" video, co-directed the "Painted Soldiers" video) Rian Murphy (co-directed "Painted Soldiers" video) Scott Blen (directed "Gold Soundz" and "Range Life" videos) Tom Surgall (directed "Rattled by the Rush" video) John Kelsey (directed "Father to a Sister of Thought" and "Stereo" videos) Spike Jonze (directed "Shady Lane" video) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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