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Kurt Cobain: The Ride: The Movie

It’s gonna be like if CATCHER IN THE RYE was a ride at Disneyland! No, I don’t do enough drugs to know why that would be desirable, either.

BlogNosh 02/07/08

The Underwire points to Barackula, “a short political horror rock musical about young Barack Obama having to stave off a secret society of vampires at Harvard when he was inducted into presidency at the Harvard Law Review in 1990.” The ten minute film is not online yet, but we’ll be first in line for its [...]

FilmCouch #40

A new doc about Kurt Cobain redeems years of shoddy journalism about our cultural icon. A self-indulgent Hurricane Katrina film pricks a nerve in Karina Longworth.

 
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Kurt Cobain: About a Son Opens Today

Forget about Manohla’s pan (seriously: has she just been watching too much Behind the Music?): go read this story on AJ Schnack’s Kurt Cobain: About a Son in the Village Voice, and then, if you have the means, go see the film tonight in New York or this weekend in L.A. To quote the inimitable [...]

About a Son Soundtrack And Screenings

AJ Schnack dropped a hint on his blog yesterday about the soundtrack for his new film, Kurt Cobain: About a Son, and I followed the link to Barsuk Records to take a look at it. It looks amazing–21 tracks, songs by David Bowie, Butthole Surfers and Iggy Pop, plus scraps of the Michael Azzerad interviews [...]

Kurt Cobain Doc Has a Blog — Clip of the Day

Watch a clip from a new documentary about Kurt Cobain. Just try to ignore the ignorant YouTube comments.