Brett Morgen Imagines a Kurt Cobain Documentry Next

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Kurt Cobain Documentry
Published 2/24/2008 at OH NO!!
... but something that will resonate with Cobain and Nirvana fans young and old. With interest in musical documentaries really pick up recently, primarily with Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light documentary on the Rolling Stones and his follow-up on Bob Marley, I think everyone is realizing how entertaining these films can turn out. It might not be a few years until we actually see Morgen's doc on Kurt Cobain, but when we finally do see it, I'm certain it will be something to behold. source.

Well played Courtney Love
Published 2/25/2008 by Kim Taylor Bennett at thelondonblog
... You can totally see Daddy Cobain in her. And speaking of Daddy Cobain, firstshowing.net are reporting that filmmaker Brett Morgen is looking into a Courtney Love "sort of sanctioned" Cobain docu. Morgen who's previous work includes recent Sundance Chicago 10 - "a 'mixed media' documentary about the anti-war protest during the 1968 Democratic National Convention - says of the possible Cobain docu: "it's going to be like this 3 dimensional visceral sort of sublime movie." Riiight. "Ultimately I think the goal for that film is to make sort of a Catcher on the Rye for the ...

'Chicago 10' Director Will Take on Kurt Cobain Next
Published 2/25/2008 by Jessica Barnes at Cinematical
... go anywhere all over this planet and you'll find kids who have Kurt tattooed on their arms. It's because he spoke-he was able to articulate his experiences as an alienated, disenfranchised kid and that's why I think his music is still relevant today and resonates all over the world and I think we have to make the film that's in every one of those kid's heads that represents them." I can't help but think that maybe it's about time we let Cobain rest in peace, don't you? [via First Showing]Read | Permalink | Email this ...

Kurt Cobain autobiographical film?
Published 2/26/2008 at Filmstalker
... through First Showing about the idea: "It's all of Kurt's artifacts and archives and journals and yeah we'll have the music of course but the… his home movies. He did stop action animation, which I don't know if anyone's ever seen but I saw it and it's fucking great. I mean it was crude and I'm gonna probably refine it… ...We're going to make a film as if Kurt Cobain was making his autobiography and so and one of the things about using animation in it is that at first I was like oh, man, it was the worst time for archival films because from like '83 to '92 video sucked... ...

Film Junk Weekend Wrap-Up: March 2, 2008
Published 3/2/2008 by Sean at Film Junk
... Last Starfighter Sequel In The Works Two People Stabbed at Screening of The Signal Cantankerous Podcast #2 New Trailers Step Brothers Love Guru Starship Troopers 3: Marauder The Onion Movie The Fall Some Stories We Didn’t Cover This Year’s Oscars Deliver Lowest TV Ratings Ever New Line Cinema Merges with Warner Brothers Batman: Gotham Knight Anime Out on DVD July 8th Jonathan Mostow to Direct The Megas Brett Morgen Approached by Courtney Love to Direct Kurt Cobain Documentary Neil Marshall and ...