Alex Ross Perry
Alex Ross Perry was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1984. He attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and worked at Kim’s Video in Manhattan. He is the director of the films Impolex, The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth, Golden Exits, Her Smell, Pavements and the new documentary Videoheaven.
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Three Great Things: Alex Ross Perry
The NYC indie stalwart, whose new documentary Videoheaven opens tomorrow, on cycling, tourism and baking pizzas with his daughter.
Revisited: How First Reformed’s Success Actually Points to a Dark Future for Independent Film
Her Smell’s writer-director breaks down the stark reality that film distribution today is an inequitable system that excludes almost everyone.
How First Reformed’s Success Actually Points to a Dark Future for Independent Film
Her Smell’s writer-director breaks down the stark reality that film distribution today is an inequitable system that excludes almost everyone.
How The Neon Demon’s “Failure” Reveals a Major Problem in Indie Film
Alex Ross Perry on Nicolas Winding Refn's masterpiece, and what it bombing at the box office says about the state of independent film.
Why We Must Rethink the Metrics of Success (When Even Stranger Things Can’t Rescue a Film from Obscurity)
Alex Ross Perry ponders the problems caused by the non-disclosure of digital film sales numbers and the inability of movies to stand out on VOD.
How The Neon Demon’s “Failure” Reveals a Major Problem in Indie Film
Alex Ross Perry on Nicolas Winding Refn's masterpiece, and what it bombing at the box office says about the state of independent film.
This Pseudo-Documentary about “Non-Reading Lesbian” Dennis Hopper is the First Half of a Great Lost Double Bill
Alex Ross Perry talks Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson's 'The American Dreamer' (and its companion piece, Hopper's masterpiece, 'The Last Movie')
Alex Ross Perry (Queen of Earth) Talks Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno
After more than half a decade away, the Splat Pack director returns with a disgusting, vile, morally dubious cannibal movie. Yes, it's that good.
Josh Safdie (Heaven Knows What) and Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talk Doug Ellin’s Entourage
Two New York indie filmmakers who are longtime fans of Vinnie Chase and the gang debate how the HBO show fared in its leap to the big screen.
Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talks Cameron Crowe’s Aloha
Does the level of animosity aimed at this new film from a once-beloved writer-director point at deeper cultural issues?
Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talks Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
As the second of the Kiwi director's Tolkien trilogies ends, a look back at the scope and impact of this epic body of work.
Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip) Talks Adam Wingard’s The Guest
The latest film from Wingard and his creative collaborator Simon Barrett harkens back to '80s genre cinema, but don't just write it off as pastiche.









