Slow Century

Slow Century
DVD Cover
Directed byLance Bangs, Kim Gordon, Spike Jonze, Dan Koretzky, Thurston Moore, Tom Surgel
Produced byLance Bangs
StarringStephen Malkmus, Mark Ibold, Scott Kannberg, Bob Nastanovich, Steve West, Gary Young, Thurston Moore
Music byPavement
Distributed byMatador Records (US)
Domino Recording Company (UK)
Release date
  • October 22, 2002 (2002-10-22)
Running time
6 hours total (two discs)
LanguageEnglish

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.

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