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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Free FREE KURT COBAIN: MONTAGE OF HECK PDF Brett Morgen | 160 pages | 05 May 2015 | Insight Editions, Div of Palace Publishing Group, LP | 9781608875498 | English | San Rafael, United States Cobain: Montage of Heck - As IMDb celebrates its 30th birthday, we have six shows to get you ready for those pivotal years of your life Get some streaming picks. Title: Cobain: Montage of Heck An authorized documentary on the late musician Kurt Cobainfrom his early days in Aberdeen, Washington to his success and downfall with the grunge band Nirvana. I was hoping for this film to be great. As a Nirvana fan most people who claim to like Nirvana have no idea what 'Incesticide' or even 'Bleach' isI was looking forward to a thorough insight into this beloved figure who is still shrouded in a fog of misrepresentation and false hero worship. Unfortunately the film did not live up to expectations as it seemed the Director, "Brett Morgan" was more concerned in making the film aesthetically pleasing than emotionally interesting. First off, a few positives about the film. The way it portrays Courtney Love: She is despised by most music fans who believe she ruined Nirvana, but it's pretty clear that Kurt's self destruction was mostly his Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck and his natural tendencies which add an appropriate sense of melancholy to the movie. Some of the montages were nice when not excruciatingly overdone. The music of course was good, it had a wide range from their b-sides Divetheir first album Mr. Moustache and their popular stuff Territorial Pissings Including some fascinating covers of the Velvet Underground and the Beatles. The story about Kurt and the "Retarded Girl" was absolutely fascinating. However, the pacing of the film is truly awful. The first hour trudges along after a promising start and becomes bogged down in the Director's own agenda to show off his style. By far the best scenes in the film is just raw footage of Kurt and Courtney living alone in their dingy apartments and hotel rooms. The film is appropriately titled, as the film is almost solely montages that don't progress the story and just serve again to stroke the Director's ego. There are countless films that have the same end title card and it felt awfully lazy. This is also disappointing because we experience none of the emotional damage that Cobains death has, which would have been far more interesting than 5 minutes of repetitive montages. What's sad is that this film claimed to be the definitive Cobain Doco, but it's so obvious that there is plenty more interesting video and audio recordings made by Cobain HIMSELF that were left out in order to make way for dead Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck animation montages and hyper editing. The film could have been just as emotionally effective with 20 minutes cut from it. However, I am still at least glad I saw the film, all the less wanky stuff was honestly well directed and Cobain's home video footage is nothing short of riveting and sometimes becomes really funny and beautiful. So I give this film a 6. At the end of the day, I feel it would have been far more interesting just to sort through 3 hours of Cobain's home recordings than to watch a Director trying to steal the limelight from his charismatic subjects. Looking for Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. 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Edit Cast Credited cast: Aaron Burckhard Self archive footage Chad Channing Self archive footage Don Cobain Self - Kurt's Father Jenny Cobain Self - Kurt's Stepmother Kim Cobain Self - Kurt's Sister Kurt Cobain Self archive footage Dale Crover Self archive footage Jason Everman Self credit only Dave Foster Self credit only Dave Grohl Self archive footage Courtney Love Self Tracey Marander Self - Kurt's Girlfriend Nirvana Themselves archive footage Krist Novoselic Self Wendy O'Connor Edit Storyline An authorized documentary on the late musician Kurt Cobainfrom his early days Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Aberdeen, Washington to his success and downfall with the grunge band Nirvana. Edit Did You Know? Was this review helpful to you? Yes Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Report this. Add the first question. Language: English. Runtime: min. Color: Color. Edit page. October Streaming Picks. Back to School Picks. Clear your history. Self archive Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck - Wikipedia Forgot your password? Don't have an account? Sign up here. Already have an account? Log in here. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policiesand to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. We want to hear what you have to say but need to Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck your account. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck makes a persuasive case for its subject without resorting to hagiography -- and includes plenty of rare and unreleased footage for fans. Rate this movie. Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. So Fresh: Absolute Must See! You're almost there! Just confirm how you got your ticket. Cinemark Coming Soon. Regal Coming Soon. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. We see-almost from the inside-the evolution of Cobain's sensitive brilliance and the art and destruction that it fed. Sarah Larson. Morgen and his editors have simply done a remarkable job -- also an artful one -- in piecing together this residuum. Verne Gay. On the subject of the life and death of Kurt Cobain there is still some work to be done, but Montage of Heck may be as close as we'll get to moving on. Hank Stuever. A masterful and often deeply moving portrait of a volatile American genius, a portrait that goes far beyond one man, one family and one rain-sodden small town. Andrew O'Hehir. Cobain's life has been chronicled in scores of books and documentaries, but Montage of Heck feels fresh in the scope of material it includes, the way it's presented, and the things it emphasizes. Spencer Kornhaber. Montage understands Cobain as an icon, but also as the mixed-up kid who got too famous too fast, and it seems content revealing, rather than reconciling, his contradictions. Two decades on, the life and work of Kurt Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is still being discussed, consumed and processed. Montage of Heck Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck just contribute to that conversation; it elevates it to a whole new level. Michael J. It's inherently fascinating material, but Morgen's attempt to delve deep into Cobain's life doesn't prove to be especially illuminating. Cobain's music and his striking artwork coalesce to help us understand his mind - however the rest of this documentary plays it a little too safe to take us much further. Nick Evan-Cook. The most depressing, tragic and, of course, marketable version is presented here and what we have is not good record but Sundance-friendly miserablism Helen Razer. Seeing him through the eyes of his parents was the most poignant segment in a very detailed and moving documentary about his artistically fruitful, personally painful and very short life. Asia Frey. Fortunately, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck original material of Montage of Heck is so captivating that [director Brett] Morgen's intrusions do not ruin the multifaceted portrait we get of Cobain Daniel Krauze. Top Box Office. More Top Movies Trailers. Certified Fresh Picks. Black Mirror: Season 5. Into The Dark: Season 2. Lovecraft Country: Season 1. The Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Season 1. Saturday Night Live: Season Orphan Black: Season 5. Watchmen: Season 1. The Walking Dead: Season Certified Fresh Pick. View All. Fall TV Log in with Facebook. Email address. Log In. First Name. Last Name. 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