Kurt Cobain About a Son (Blu-ray)
Kurt Cobain in his own words.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 6, 2009
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | AJ Schnack | |
| Composition by | Benjamin Gibbard & Steve Fisk | |
| Subject: | Kurt Cobain | |
| Produced by | Shirley Moyers, Chris Green & Noah Khoshbin | |
| Director of Photography: | Wyatt Troll |
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Rating: 1.5/4 --
The ending section, where Schnack and Azerrad let Cobain ramble philosophically about life and music, is a muddled intellectual mess.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The images combine with Cobain's voiceover for a cumulative effect that seeps into the film rather than exploding onto it.
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East Bay Express
Rating: 2.5/4 --
As an illustrated audio tour through the life of a gifted but self-destructive performer, 'About a Son' is enlightening to a point, but one has to wonder when filmmakers will stop exhuming the corpse of a man who desperately craved privacy.
San Francisco Examiner
Rating: 3/4 --
Kurt Cobain About a Son is a lovely piece of filmmaking, a gripping, minimalist marriage of sound and image.
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Boston Globe
As important for what it reveals about a seminal and grievously misunderstood artist as for how it rejuvenates a moribund documentary form.
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Washington Post
Rating: 3/4 --
Less a movie than an illustrated audiotape, Kurt Cobain: About a Son is nonetheless fascinating for what it reveals of its subject,
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 3/4 --
AJ Schnack's Kurt Cobain: About a Son is as gripping and revealing as Gus Van Sant's Last Days was hollow and pointless.
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Slant Magazine
Product Description:
Original music from Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard and Nirvana producer Steve Fisk anchors this documentary about the late grunge rocker. KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON closely examines the life of the musician from his childhood to his tragic death.
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