Kurt Cobain About A Son will open this Friday in Philadelphia at the Ritz on the Bourse. Director AJ Schnack will be in attendance for the evening screenings on Friday, October 19, including a special conversation with Philebrity's Joey Sweeney.
Says Shaun Brady of the Philly City Paper:
RECOMMENDED! (Director AJ) Schnack refuses to indulge in Ken Burns-y photo montage to illustrate his subject; Cobain's visage doesn't appear until the closing moments, and then only in images of Nirvana onstage, the same way he burst into public consciousness. Instead, the director accompanies the singer's disembodied musings with modern images from the places where the singer lived, depicting the landscape of a life. The cumulative effect sketches Cobain as someone singularly ill-equipped for fame, and his alternately exhausted, whiny and contemplative answers refuse the romanticization that's been thrust upon him.
AJ Schnack will also be in New York City on Saturday afternoon for a Q&A following the 4:05 PM screening at the IFC Center, where the film has been held over for a third week.
The film has also held over in Seattle at the Landmark Varsity. Head on out this weekend if your in the area.
Finally, this Saturday night, there's a special advance screening of the film at the Delancey Screening Room in San Francisco, courtesy of your friends at Noise Pop.
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