Tuesday, February 19, 2008

DVD Review: Kurt Cobain - About A Son

Kurt Cobain - About a SonKurt Cobain - About a Son
Documentary, 135 minutes
Directed by AJ Schnack
Shout! Factory/Sidetrack Films
Available Feb. 19, 2008


“Kurt Cobain was a person just like everybody else, he cried, and laughed, loved his child, loved his wife, and was frustrated, and happy, and crabby, and jovial, and all those things. I think a lot of that has been taken away from him in the intervening years since his death. He’s just become an icon, an enigma, dehumanized.” -- Michael Azerrad, author Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

Kurt Cobain is very well known but not completely understood. His life and career can be categorized as brief, poignant, and tragic. Told entirely in his own voice taken from over 25 hours of previously unheard interviews given to Michael Azerrad for his book Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, the autobiographical film Kurt Cobain - About A Son details the life and influences of Kurt Cobain, frontman of the 1990s chart-topping grunge band Nirvana. His story is woven into a commentary by AJ Schnack about the presence and absence of such a great artist...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom!

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