A Mailbag for All Time. Plus: Alex Ross Perry Returns!

The Big Picture

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4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Amanda open up the mailbag once again to answer all of your questions about underrated indie directors they’d like to see get the “Sean Baker treatment” at this year's Oscars, why Amanda majored in classics, recent films that are the most likely to inspire the next generation of filmmakers, and much more (3:05). Then, Alex Ross Perry returns to the show to discuss his new genre-bending music biopic, ‘Pavements.’ They discuss what attracted Perry to making this stylized vision, the complicated and interesting process behind making the movie, and what types of projects he’d like to take on in the future (1:02:33). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Alex Ross Perry and Bobby Wagner Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Look, it's not that confusing.
0:02.5	I'm Rob Harvilla, host of the podcast 60 songs that explain the 90s, except we did 120 songs.
0:08.9	And now we're back with the 2000s.
0:11.2	I refuse to say aughts.
0:12.5	2000 to 2009.
0:14.3	The Strokes, Rihanna, Jalo, Kanye, sure.
0:17.8	And now the show is called 60 songs that explain the 90s, colon the 2000s. Wow. That's too long a title for me to say anything else right now. Just trust me. That's 60 songs that explain the 90s, colon the 2000s, preferably on Spotify.
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1:17.0	And Breeze co-pilot keeps you two steps ahead, giving you the right insights at the right time. Get started today at HubSpot.com forward slash AI. I'm Sean Fennacy.
1:18.5	And this is the Big Picture A Conversation show about whatever you want to know.
1:20.9	We're opening up the mailbag today and taking your questions.
1:24.0	Bobby Wagner is here to read them.
1:25.7	Later in this episode, Amanda and I will be joined by our pal, Alex Ross Perry, to talk about his hilarious, ingenious new movie pavements.
1:33.1	It's a biopic, jukebox musical, documentary, meta-textual deconstruction of the 90s indie rock slacker icons pavement.
1:42.3	And also the idea of making a movie about a band.
1:46.3	Absolutely. There has really never been a movie like this before. It is incredibly strange
1:50.3	and incredibly interesting. Also, Alex is like a 9, 10, 11, 12 time champion of this show. He's been
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