Kurt Cobain About a Son
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Directed by | AJ Schnack |
Produced by | Ravi Anne |
Narrated by | Kurt Cobain |
Starring | Kurt Cobain |
Music by | Steve Fisk Ben Gibbard |
Cinematography | Wyatt Troll |
Editing by | AJ Schnack |
Distributed by | Balcony Releasing (US theatrical) Shout! Factory (US DVD) Geneon Entertainment (Japan theatrical) Toshiba Entertainment (Japan DVD) |
Release date(s) | August 4, 2007 October 3, 2007 |
Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Kurt Cobain About a Son is a documentary about Kurt Cobain that debuted at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. It is directed by AJ Schnack. It was produced by Sidetrack Films. It features audio of interviews between Cobain and journalist Michael Azerrad done for the book Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, set over ambient cinematography of the places in which Kurt Cobain called his home, mainly Aberdeen, Olympia, and Seattle. The film has played numerous film festivals, and was nominated for the 2007 Independent Spirit's Truer than Fiction Award.
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- "Overture" - Steve Fisk and Ben Gibbard
- Audio: Never Intended
- "Motorcycle Song" - Arlo Guthrie
- "It's Late" - Queen
- "Eye Flys" - The Melvins
- Audio: Punk Rock
- "Banned in DC" - Bad Brains
- "Up Around the Bend" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "Kerosene" - Big Black
- "Put Some Sugar on It" - Half Japanese
- "Son of a Gun" - The Vaselines
- "Graveyard" - Butthole Surfers
- Audio: Hardcore Was Dead
- "Owner's Lament" - Scratch Acid
- "Touch Me I'm Sick" - Mudhoney
- Audio: Car Radio
- "The Passenger" - Iggy Pop
- "The Borgeois Blues" - Leadbelly
- "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1" - R.E.M.
- Audio: The Limelight
- "The Man Who Sold the World" - David Bowie
- "Museum" - Mark Lanegan
- "Indian Summer" - Ben Gibbard