Reviews
- Digiacomo, F. (2015). Kurt Up Close, Through Better and Worse. Billboard, 127(13), 49. Retrieved from Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre.
Montage of Heck Director Brett Morgen has said that the structure of his documentary was inspired by Lenny, Bob Fosse's 1974 biopic about comic Lenny Bruce, another mythologized artist whose life ended tragically. - Mejia, P. (2015). To Heck and Back. Newsweek Global, 164(17), 54-57. Retrieved from Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre.Here is a dare: Find a rock-and-roll legend with more mythos swirling around him than Kurt Cobain, the bedraggled Nirvana frontman who seethed through the late ’80s and early ’90s, inspiring legions of plaid-clad youths reeking of Teen Spirit and apathy to wake up and wield guitars like weapons.
- Osborne, B. (2015, June 6). Buzz Osborne (the Melvins) Talks the HBO Documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Retrieved June 13 2015, from The Talkhouse: http://thetalkhouse.com/music/talks/buzz-osborne-the-melvins-talks/Buzz Osborne knew Kurt Cobain since before the beginning and until the very end. And he says most of Montage of Heck just isn't true.
- Harvey, D. (2015, February 2). Sundance Film Review: ‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck’. Retrieved from Variety: http://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/sundance-film-review-kurt-cobain-montage-of-heck-1201421674/
A fascinating mix of archival and new materials creates a virtual autobiography for legendary grunge trio Nirvana's late leader. - Davies, S. (2015). Cobain Montage of Heck. Sight & Sound, 25(5), 71. Retrieved from Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre.Pop time runs differently to clock time; it's elastic, stretching like blown bubble gum and imploding to nothing. It hardly seems possible that Nirvana was in the wider public consciousness for barely two-and-a-half years before singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain's death in 1994.
Articles
- Fricke, D. (2015, June). Searching for Kurt. Rolling Stone, 763, 46-52.Three days before the premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Courtney Love and Frances Bean Cobain watched the final cut of Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck in a private screening room in Burbank, California.
Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca. (2015, May 4). Courtney Love Talks Making of Cobain Documentary, Montage of Heck [Video file]. Retrieved June 12, 2015, from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYO_SMvi5vs
VICE Interview
VICE. (2015, May 5). 'Montage of Heck' - VICE Meets Kurt Cobain Documentary Filmmaker Brett Morgen [Video file]. Retrieved June 12, 2015, from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd4l3JyivVw