12/25/2022 0 Comments Kurt cobain mackup![]() ![]() She was the reason people were giving us access to their archives, and why they agreed to be interviewed, and why they agreed to participate in the film. The film would not exist today without Frances. ![]() While it’s hard enough to ever fully understand yourself, let alone another person, Montage of Heck will probably get as close as we can because the movie’s all built upon primary sources - none of which I doubt will ever be available again. This was a movie about Kurt’s art and his journey, and for the fans and people who really appreciated Kurt, it’s almost like opening up a candy box of these nuggets of Cobain. We had no intentions of ever going into the final weeks of Kurt’s life. It was important both for the fans and myself that I was afforded final cut on the film, because one of the thoughts I had was that no matter what the film was going to be, it needed to be honest. Courtney didn’t see the film until two days before the premiere and Frances was the first member of her family to see it, and I never received a single note or comment. And because he worked in so many different forms of media, I find it to be one of the most complete visual and aural autobiographies of anyone in my generation. However, with Kurt, he had left behind such an immense library of art, both visual and aural, and he was so expressive with his art, that in a sense, he left behind this sort of organic visual and aural autobiography of his own experiences through his life. Generally that’s maybe something you try to provide in fiction or an autobiography, but to do a documentary about someone’s inner journey is a bit challenging. It’s an unorthodox movie in that it’s probably best described as an interior journey through Kurt’s life. Once I was granted access to that material, I knew that we had the makings of something truly unique. While there’s been a lot written about Kurt over the years, and a couple of attempts to bring his story to the screen, Courtney was sitting on a treasure chest of art that Kurt had produced during his lifetime, and I think she came to me because of the way I had dealt with the Bob Evans film. She had seen my film, The Kids Stays in the Picture and wanted to explore the idea of making a film about Kurt. How did you become involved with this film originally? We spoke to Morgen, dubbed the “mad scientist” of documentary film by the New York Times, about his monumental film. “The film would not exist today without Frances (Bean Cobain),” Morgen says, citing that it was Kurt and Courtney’s now-22-year-old daughter who was the reason so many people agreed to be interviewed, including Kurt’s mother, father, and sister. ![]() Using never-before-seen and heard artwork, personal writings, music and home movies (it’s amazing how much footage there is of young Kurt), Morgen paints a picture of the complete, definitive Kurt - one who is more multifaceted artist than rock icon who took his own life in April 1994. Nearly eight years after director Brett Morgen ( The Kids Stays in the Picture) was approached by Courtney Love to make a film about her late husband’s life, the documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, is finally available to fans around the world - premiering on HBO and in select theaters tonight, May 4th. ![]()
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