![]() 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. As a child, Cobain was constantly let down by his family life.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. Here are the nine facts that will change how you think about Cobain: 1. He comes off as vulnerable - equal parts loser and genius- as flawed and as secretly insecure as every other human being on the planet. "What I found was the man was much more interesting and, as a byproduct, likable than the myth."īy digging through Cobain's old Super 8 films and his journals and interviewing some of those closest to Cobain, Morgen has brought to light some artifacts that reveal a side of Cobain we rarely saw. "I just wanted to sort of reveal the man behind the myth," director Brett Morgen told Fast Company. The documentary, which airs May 4 on HBO, makes him human again. This is what the brilliant documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, gets about Cobain. It was the fact that he was so deeply human, not that he was larger than life. But the true appeal of Cobain's music was his vulnerability and his honesty. ![]() Kurt Cobain's life is easy to mythologize - and for more than 20 years since his death, that's exactly what we've done.
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