Kurt Cobain Lives in Toronto

0 Comments POSTED: August 24, 2006 11:23 | By: Thom Powers
KURT-COBAIN.jpgKurt Cobain  About a Son (left) is generating a huge amount of anticipation for its TIFF world premiere. Director AJ Schnack draws upon hours of intimate audio-taped conversations that the Nirvana singer had with his biographer Michael Azerrad. The film is divided into three chapters for the three Washington cities where Cobain lived - Aberdeen, Olympia, Seattle. Schnack visualizes the conversations with gorgeous 35 mm photography of the landscapes and faces of that region. It's unlike any other rock 'n' roll movie ever made. Schnack, Azerrad, and photographer Charles Peterson (who took some of the most iconic pictures of Cobain, including the one seen here) will all be coming to Toronto. MTV.com has a long article about the film.

Here's Azerrad quoted in that article on how the interviews were conducted...

"I'd fly out to Seattle from New York, and he'd call me and say, 'OK, great, come over at around midnight,' " Azerrad said. "So I would take a nap, and then I'd head over. And we'd start talking, and often keep talking until the sun came up. It was basically a man, in his kitchen, talking to someone he trusts in the wee hours of the morning. The TV was always on. He was a huge 'Speed Racer' fan. He loved Chim Chim the monkey. He'd be sitting in his kitchen wearing ripped jeans and a pajama top."

Thanks to Matt Dentler's blog for bringing this to my attention.

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