Kurt Cobain - About a Son
by AJ Schnack
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Actor: Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain, Michael AzerradDirector: AJ Schnack
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 135 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
Movie Reviews of Kurt Cobain - About a Son
Movie Review: Kurt Tells His Story
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want to know the real Kurt Cobain, purchase About a Son. The best part about this movie, is while Kurt tells his story, you see his hometown. I've read a review saying it could be any town. I've been there, it is where he grew up. As you see these images and hear the soundtrack of the music he listened to you get a better picture of what his life was like. It's the whole package, so to speak. I thank Michael Azerrad for making these great interviews available to his fans. It is touching and informative. I highly recommend it.
Summary of Kurt Cobain - About a Son
Kurt Cobain was deeply suspicious of journalists, but he trusted Rolling Stone's Michael Azerrad enough to give him unprecedented access during the writing of the book Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana. Consisting entirely of Cobain's never-before-heard musings and recollections recorded by Azerrad and laid on top of newly shot footage of the places that he lived, Kurt Cobain: About A Son offers an intimate portrait of the rocker's troubled formative years and meteoric rise to stardom. The result is the story of one of rock's greatest icons as it's never been told before. DVD Bonus Features:
Additional audio from the Kurt Cobain interviews
Behind-the-scenes featurette
Following in the deeply idiosyncratic footsteps of Last Days, About a Son plays more like autobiography than documentary. Gus Van Sant's feature extrapolates moments from the life of Kurt Cobain (with Michael Pitt as a musician named Blake), while A.J. Schnack's non-fiction film adheres closer to the facts, but advances a more radical Koyaanisqatsi-like approach. First off, Cobain supplies the narration, but the filmmaker avoids pictures of the alternative icon until the end. (He culled the voice-over from interviews conducted by author Michael Azerrad for Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana.) Beyond-the-grave narration isn't a new concept--see Tupac: Resurrection--but Schnack (Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns) ups the ante by excluding talking heads, concert footage, and other staples of the genre. Instead, he uses still and time-lapse photography to explore Cobain's Northwest, i.e. Aberdeen, Olympia, and Seattle. The artist's unguarded reflections create a sense of intimacy as specific locations illustrate his words. Conversely, the lack of portraiture and self-penned music generates a feeling of absence. The soundtrack combines an ambient score from producer Steve Fisk and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard with Cobain favorites, like David Bowie, Cheap Trick, and the Vaselines (available on a separate CD). For more specifics, interested parties can always turn to tomes by Azerrad, Gina Arnold, Charles R. Cross, and Everett True. About a Son doesn't presume to provide a definitive portrait, but Schnack's rigorous avoidance of convention results in an experience far more dream-like than depressing. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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