'Montage of Heck' - VICE Meets Kurt Cobain Documentary Filmmaker Brett Morgen
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- We met up with director Brett Morgen, the man responsible for one of the one of the most highly anticipated music documentaries in recent years "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck." The Oscar-nominated filmmaker was allowed unfettered access to the Nirvana singer's archives, stitching together an unflinchingly intimate portrait of a man which includes never before seen artwork, journal entries, and incredible home videos, from Cobain as a child right through to mere months before his death. "Montage…" also features interviews with the singer's family members on camera for the first time ever. Vice's Kim Taylor Bennett talked to Morgen about the legacy of Cobain, his paradoxical nature, the women in his life, and the daunting task of accurately portraying a man so revered.
Montage of Heck premieres May 4th on HBO.
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I really like the way he talked about the survivors feeling 'haunted'. I think for a lot of survivors, this is the case.
There is a awesome Nirvana doc on here from a fan its called Verse Chorus Verse Documentary.. Tells the timeline and unheard stories.Pretty cool
Still hasn’t got the views it so clearly deserves
this guy loves his own voice.
I love the way this interview was filmed. Great job whoever decided on the location and simplicity.
Great information, great documentary. Thanks for both!
Great interview and a great film.
I loved this documentary. It was well done and help to explain Kurt state of mind
need this documentary now.
Great interview! NIRVANA FOREVER!!!! My teenage son loves Nirvana just as much as I did.
This is my most anticipated movie in living memory! I will never get over the fact that I didn’t make the drive, one hour away, to see Nirvana play on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco, ’93/’94. We didn’t want to be on the roads at midnight.
blah bliff Also, don't drink and drive. And smoking kills. And don't leave your new-born infant lying near an open flame.
When I watched, I paused it often to read the journal entries and notes, like the one where Kurt writes a letter to Dave on behalf of the band where he question's Dave's commitment to the band and whether or not Dave even wanted to continue to be in the band.
Brilliant Documentary..Loved it. I have it on DVD. Mr. Cobain actually invested the time for his success. Putting in the work. He unfortunately got tied down by his own insecurities.
I've never been a Nirvana fan but I really want to see this documentary now.
Kurt really makes me think of that old French saying: Happy people don't make history.
they fucking make children and then die
@@MadanSingh-ji2kx 88ii8k
There's really a french saying for that?
I can't wait to see this film
Love the desperation and fear in the interviwer.She´s like Mulder,she wants to believe.Aristotles said it,if the parise is to praise themself prenteding they undertand me
Great film, I can't wait to buy the DVD.
Ok the dude was a tortured soul, we get it. Now leave the man alone.
Thankyou
Great interview and documentary. Thanks Vice!
Best BM MOH press-interview so far.
We need a Layne Staley documentary
Thats what i was gonna say ! Layne is so fucking underrated !
Rebphoenix Yes we do
***** That's awesome dude i'm from Mass!
Rebphoenix Yes, that would be cool. I'm into different kinds of music as my taste has changed and evolved since I was younger, but I remember Alice in Chains, I think it was '93, at Lollapalooza, I was up really close to the stage when AIC came on and the hair on my back stood up at that chilling performance. It was pure power, anger and art. I'd like to know what was up with Layne, and hear his story.
Rebphoenix Took the words right out of my mouth. Look I like Kurt and Nirvana, but IMO, Layne was a 100 times better singer and more talented then Kurt ever was. And AIC for me was just a shit load better band and more diverse then Nirvana was. I really do hope sometime soon they make a Layne Staley movie/documentary. It just sickens me how underrated Layne was and still is today, and how forgotten he is becoming. Layne's my idol so for me at least he will always be cherished and remembered until the day I die.
I can tell she's a total fan of Cobain and it must have been a really special part of her growing into womanhood
What a fantastic genuine filmmaker and person . Film was epic
Montage of Heck is a montage made by Nirvana on Outsesticide part 4. A none official album.
Been With Kurt Since Day 1
Something that caught my attention in the interview with Kurt's mother is that she described his son as someone who was looking for perfection in his music. I don't think that Kurt Cobain was a perfectionist, he was a creative but never that.
This documentary was the BAAAAAAAAD!!!!!
Coming from someone who has been a Nirvana fan and Kurt fan while they were still together and he was still alive, this was a great documentary, but it has some major flaws.
1. They could have shown the funnier side of Kurt to balance out his personality using more footage from interviews
2. They should have used more audio from Kurt telling stories in his own words while still showing the journal entries
3. There wasnt enough footage of him and the band playing on stage live
4. There wasnt enough music from the Fecal Matter era
5. They could have shown more rare photos or just more photos in general
6. The film about a son seems to bring you closer to who Kurt was than this film
7. DAVE GROHL WAS NOT IN THE FILM
8. Michael Azzerad had over 25 hours of Audio Cassette tapes of an interview with Kurt that he found stored in boxes that were not used in this film.
9. Kurt was huge on the way the Music videos looked and if this film is about showing you his art, why didnt they use more footage of the music videos
10. The environments and geographical areas where Kurt lived had a huge impact on Kurt and was something that didnt get shown.
11. They needed to do this in a 5 part series, 5 hours or longer to give it more depth as opposed to an hour and 44 minutes.
theres to much i want to write back to you. dave couldnt be in it, he didnt have time. they tried. but dave knew cobain just before and after he was famous. they already had enuf people to talk about that part of his life. and morgan did try to get dave many times anyway, but i too was upset when i heard he wasnt in it, but tho i do love dave, his abcess wasnt missed when i watched it. the tapes Azzerad has is old news. why do you want another doc. with the same shit weve all heard over and over again, like about a son. yes, that was a great film, but i do actually like this as much, if not actually way better. they do show a side of cobain you dont often hear or see. his family life.
you mentioned about fecal matter, and tho it was mentioned the films isnt jjust about cobain and his connection to nirvana. its more about his art than his music was. its more about him, and his childhood than nirvana. nirvana wasnt the topic for the film.
you asked why didnt they show more shit from his music cause its about the art. cause cobain didnt shoot the videos. he had the idea for teen spirit but the director also helped, the only one that truely seems to be mostly all his idea was heart shaped box. but more than one person is involved in a music video. id rather see art that ONLY cobain did. as they did show. not art that he was involved in.
I must see this film..
5:00 minutes in I bought a ticket. 10:00 minutes in I was crying my eyes out. Thanks Vice.
awesome!
In the words of Kurt cobain Peace, love, and empathy
if those were even his words
fantastic film
"One of the great surprises of this film is it's about finding love at a very specific time of your life and then having that great love pay someone to murder you"
I'd like to know why he changed kurt's drawings from their original state to appear more demented. I was surprised to see the differences between how I had seen them in MOH and how they actually appear in person at his museum exhibit.
Great Interview. Love these.. But we all know you have more than one camera laying around. Put down the bong and get another camera guy in there. Enough with the awkward table and sideways sitting!
where can i watch for free tho?
It weird how ppl who love nirvana get angry at directors & courtney love for exposing his journals for everyone to see but still watch the movie, i love nirvana & always find it intresting when movies or books show a more personal look into an artists life as a fan i always love to see that behind being famous that they went through problems & the bullshits of life, just like us, im sure ppl who love kurt can relate to his personal life 😋 nirvana rox
Why does this guy remind me of Heath Ledgers Joker so much?
It’s his narcissistic voice!!!
i love when he said "rosebud" a reference to the movie citizen kane because i know the meaning but im pretty many young didnt understand the meaning lol
Getting to know the music and all that is cool. One question that still remains unanswered in my head is how did Curt actually die? There are 2 many distorted facts to accept the official story of suicide.
at 20:09 what 25 hour interview is he referencing too??
LAYNE STALEY DOCUMENTARY!!
I find it ironic when somebody like Brett Morgan tries to play the role of somebody who made a masterpiece or piece of art, when all he did ask some family members a few questions and arrange somebody else's art and call it his own movie.
Hmm. Sit down, guy.
Ever heard of Curation? Or even, R.Mutt?
You've never directed a film documentaries are much harder than you think. They're usually boring as fuck and hard to keep your interest in them. This was very well made.
This is important stuff
anybody find it weird that the video was 27 minutes long? just me huh....
Good catch, though I think that was completely coincidental.
we need a syd barrett documentary
How much hair gel is in your hair man?
(slick... but, thanks.)
courtney had kurt wacked
The interviewer is so pretty 😍😍😍. Very articulate with her questions, a great interviewer too. Not just a pretty face
Interesting documentary, but where was Dave Grohl?
tdkt160 definitely a head scratcher
tdkt160 hes in the documentary. did you not watch it or something?
Aaron Treno He was in some of the old footage which was shown in the documentary, but he wasn't interviewed for the documentary. I also wonder why.
deadleafecho Well I don't know
He was doing sonic highways at the time. You're not gonna hold up a very anticipated documentary for one person
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker was allowed unfettered access to the Nirvana singer's archives, stitching together an unflinchingly intimate portrait of a man.
MrRoka4200 CHIIIIIIILL WINSTON
MrRoka4200 and calling his baby names is any better
Alex Jones it was great
VICE Thank you, In some strange way I feel Kurt's story applies to all of us.
MrRoka4200 I agree with you brother! This was another platform for Courtney to tell some more lies. In this film she says Kurt swallowed 67 rohypnol, she originally said "1994" that he swallowed 50' so which is it? 50 or 67 because that's a big difference. The doctor that treated Kurt in Rome said that was false, Kurt did not swallow that many pills and also said he didn't think it was a suicide attempt. One rohypnol is enough to render a person unconscious enough to be able to rape them, etc. I can only imagine 50 or 67 would straight up kill someone. Especially since he apparently lay there for who knows how long before Courtney found him. Also when you pump a person's stomach from a pill overdose there are usually undigested pills if treated quickly. Not the case here. She's lying her ass off.
pongale subtitles no entiendo ingles, soy muy ignorante
He reminds me of Titanic Sinclair!
I just saw the documentary, man when he was playing the mtv concert I literally started crying because I could see in his eyes and hear in his voice how much fucking pain he felt about life in general. An inescapable pain from his childhood when he tried to kill himself then also. Some people never change because they can't. Nobody can; the chemistry of the brain dictates otherwise. Together with that, heroine, and the media, I now fully understand his suicide. Fuck all these conspiracies about how maybe he was murdered. Suicide is painless.
How did he fare with fans and spies? Its surprising that the Cobain vault and his family trove of past personals have been kept so secure until this documentary. Just surmising, maybe they were.
What was that song at 21:55?
It's "Burn The Rain" by Kurt Cobain
They did this movie for one fuc***g reason: MONEY MONEY AND MONEY!
So I painted my laptop black, hoping it would run faster… Now it doesn't work.
where is this doc @?
WE DEFINATELY NEED A...
and Courtney (among others) keeps raking it in...
There is just something that rubs me the wrong way about this guy. And I really believe he had no clue about Kurt or his life. The film itself is nice but I just don't feel it is an accurate portrait of Kurt at all. Brett just seems to be full of himself but short on empathy with the subject of his film....
this
I disagree. There was a lot of subtlety and subtext and maybe some things were missed if taken at surface level. What do you think he got wrong?
Anybody know what the song at 2:33 is?
stevewinkle101 dive
Whats the music video at 21:56?
I would also like to know
theadventurevlog I'm pretty sure that was just an animated segment made for the movie. When I Shazam the song, it just comes up as "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck".
theadventurevlog It's a part of the film dude
Darude - Sandstorm
This guy is the manifestation of kurt's or anyone's idea of the suit coming in, digging through your most private possessions and seeing dollar signs. This is the guy that Kurt was watching out for his entire life.
Quick one...How's Dave? :D
"Only sexy girls please." Shane Smith's ad in craigslist....
Dave grohl was scared watching this film
Yeah you don't feel alone when you hear or find kurt, but when you remember or realise he's dead, you're just like well SHIT
JUSTICE FOR KURT:
10.) The Seattle medical examiner, Dr Nikola Hartshorne (Dr NH) is a friend of CL from before he was a doctor. He had promoted rock bands in the '80's. So no surprise when he rules for CL's version of events, as a suicide.
11.) Dr NH is also the ME for the death of CL's bassist, Kristen Pfaff (KP) who was killed two months after the murder of KC, and after being given heroin by another Hole band member, Erick Erlandson (EE). EE is in love with CL at the time. CL was very jealous over KC and KP's new relationship.
12.) EE is at KC's house the day he died after CL asked him to go to the house to look for her husband.
13.) Two months after KC was murdered, and just weeks after KP was killed, Dr NH, who by all accounts was rising up the ladder at work, leaves to live in Florida. His Seattle coworkers are all surprised.
14.) Just three months after KC was murdered, DT, of the SPD, is murdered by two guys who set him up to be killed by pretending to have a flat tire.
15.) Lead on the CK case, Detective Cameron (DC), and the boss of DT, is fired three years after the murder of CK for bribery and corruption. He had been with SPD for 39 years.
16.) No fingerprints on the shotgun shells.
So, I think CL had EE give KC a mickey in his root beer (the Valium found in KC's blood) and then gave him a massive dose of heroin when KC was already passed out. EE then leaves and Allen Wrench comes in alone, instructed by CL, to get the shotgun she knew KC had purchased with his buddy Dylan Thomas, and to use it on KC. Dylan admits he told CL about the shotgun prior. Then CL has EE give her rival, KP, an OD of heroin. EE is the only person to be seen entering her residence that night. He left 30 minutes later. So then CL hires some thugs to pretend a flat tire on the route of off duty DT and have him killed. Dead men tell no tales. In 2002 Dr NH dies in a mysterious base jumping accident. Allen Wrench is still alive.
Everybody knows somebody with her voice
Need to watch this, screw all of this year and Hollywood's bullshit
If Kurt never did heroin there would never be a Courtney
Sharon Titus Exactly my point.
Michael Costagliola He wrote her songs. She is a leech
Kurt was always gonna do heroine. If it wasn't Courtney it would have been somebody else. Courtney was a match at the time for who he was. What they could have become if they stayed together well that's speculation
Robin Van Benderr Behind every great man there's a great woman...He needed something like that
Michael Costagliola According to Kurt himself Courtney is the one who took him out to score it every night and pressured him to the point of extreme addiction. Sure he used it before her but I also tried cigarettes before my friends started to convince me to do on a daily basis. Fucking bitch Courtney needs a good oncoming train to the face.
I'm definitely taking his advice with using the remote!! :D
He looks like the villain from The Smurfs.
Vultures all of them.
where is kurt?
Sneak dissin muse
Muse are awful pompous shiite....imo :0
i don't think this was a conversation.
It's too bad Kurt didn't want ANY of this. That bitch must be rolling in his grave, with everyone talking about him like this. Dude's gotta be embarrassed. We were supposed to STOP talking about him. Now he's gossip. RIP Cobain
ness550 This movie isn't intended to be a sham, nor gossip. It is supposed to remove every all the lenses of bias that always appear when Kurt is examined. It isn't Kurt examined, it is Kurt revealed. Would he have hated that? Yes. And he would have loved it. And he would have kept going back and forth between those conflicting emotions, and were he alive, it would generate more great art.
So fuck off please and let his fans reach him once more.
He wanted his fans to stop talking about him. go read his writings and his suicide note idiot. You're a fool.
I have read a lot of his stuff, and his suicide note was written in a state of total depression while he was high as fuck. That doesn't invalidate it but you need to understand what place that comes from. He was very conflicted. He wrote back and forth about how he wanted people to read what he wrote, and then not, and then he did, and then he didn't again. He was a very conflicted person which is part of what made him so creative.
MrRoka4200 Well, I am so, okay?
ness550 You see, the thing about dead people is that they're dead.
It should have been called "Montage Of Whatever Courtney Says" of "Montage Of Courtney Shooting Up During Pregnancy" This clown did a piss poor job of chronicling Kurt Cobain.
Bears used to sleep in the woods around Wasington and Oreagon. If a psychotic person was to walk around the wilderness; with a .38 special; and shoot around the wood out of curiosity, maybe a baby cub-bear would find a reason to explore. At night in the woods; it's dark. If the cub-bear needs to touch base, then maybe night-wolves will explore. If there are night-wolves, then maybe a big brown teddy bear is closer than expected for an unweary psycho. Big brown teddy bears do not play at night. A big brown teddy bear has the power to smother the living breath out of a psychotic mental headcase; with a .38 special or no. Drug abuse and mental altercations through alternating taboos to be social norms does not transcribe into the wild, in the land of a big brown teddy bear. The wolves won't eat psychos, the big brown teddy bear won't eat human-psychos. The smother will exhaust a humans' capability of gasping out of shock, the last-breath of a psycho is a good nights sleep for a concerned parent. Teddy bears aren't harmless, they're protective and more spiritual than a devil-worshipper could ever be. Intruding into ones' domain with no precariousness can cause a sorry excuse to point fingers at, an alike-like Frankenstein monster without the science; the bear. Mass hysteria is wrong, mass confusion is wrong, believing in propaganda whole-heartedly too; confusingly; is wrong. Be good, rock hard softly but; surely; be careful always and safety first.
Drink everytime he says Kurt.
Kurt would have hated this. Pisces like to have their privacy, this is a complete invasion. The women in Kurt's life and it pains me to say this cos I'm a woman, but I see both sides. Courtney and to a lesser degree, Frances threw Kurt, the private Kurt out there for the world to judge because they're angry that he left them. Kurt's mother never protected him and this guy Brett Morgan is just an opportunistic snake who slithered in to capitalize on a family tragedy. Basically Kurt was always on his own/alone with no one to trust.
It's funny how this is actually addressed in the interview: How people are weirdly possessive of him even though they didn't know him. And that as he's dead now it's up to the family to decide what they feel they're OK to have the world see of him.
He's dead for some years now, i don't he minds
You never knew him why are you stupidly defensive of him? Why does his star sign matter for shit ? They never said they were supportive the documentary clearly outlines not many people were there for him and the ones that were he pushed away. He's not an angel.
oh god shut up
Dude, bringing star signs into this does not help your message..
nobody: you believe in Jesus Christ?
me: you mean Kurt Cobain?
i dont agree .
i FUKIN LOVE NIRVANA
i was around 23 yrs old. i heard "teen spirit"
it rocked my world!!!!
nothing on the radio accept hair bands.
what a relief !!!!
smells like teen spirit!!!
...thats all '
I think he was just a normal man, and he wanted to be so, and people around him must behave like that.
Nobody mentioned Soaked In Bleach? Or such comments get deleted? :p
guitarbrother Soaked in Bleach. ua-cam.com/video/wcu3qb6J_5c/v-deo.html
guitarbrother that's cause its a fucking dumb film, featuring fat lying ex lapd cop tom grant. grow a brain.
dreadedwheat26 Why would he be lying? He is very humble. Courtney on the other hand...
guitarbrother you think kurts family and bandmates would have anything to do with Courtney if they suspected her involvement. people need to grow up and move on with their lives.
dreadedwheat26
Well, I think money isn't a motivator for such patron saints of truth like you and me, but for some people it might be. Besides, Dave & Krist were feuding with Courtney for years. The only reason they still talk to her is her stake in controlling their music and royalties. Which is the ultimate reason she is suspected of killing Kurt, if you do believe what Tom Grant says.
So many spoilers !!
Is it wrong that Kim Taylor Bennett does things to my soul
Yeah, so take any humans private tapes confessions, lies, truths, art, exaggerated genuine or sincere. It might be as abstract as a psychedelic journey, it might have clues to what this person was really trying to say, but we have no idea what was really going on inside.
I like a lot of the movie, some of it I couldn't enjoy it because it was an invasion of this mans life. He didn't invite us in and I felt kind of dirty by the end of it. My single favorite part of the entire piece along with the music, was Kurt lying down on the set of heart-shaped box, with the voice-over interview segment with I believe David Fricke RS asking Kurt about the song title "I hate myself and want to die"
He asks ,how literal was the meaning behind that song's title, and Kurt says as literal as a joke can be, nothing more than a joke. David then asks, well who is the joke being played on because I had to ask myself, this is either very intensely satirical, or there's some very dark stuff going on here. Kurt then replies with a very sly chuckle of "well exactly, it's everything and nothing all at the same time" Evan what I'm writing nothing more than an opinion and conjecture, same as this film as a whole.
Kurt was allowed to troll us, he quite possibly could have been doing it the entire time. It just makes for one interesting human, cuz he happened to be an incredible songwriter lyricist musician all around. He had the final word, I will never know what it was. He left us unbelievable music!
So I would suggest everyone go listen to the acoustic solo do re mi, tell me this guy didn't have so many sides, that there's no way we can figure him out completely. Especially not through the eyes of one man that's behind this movie. He made a piece of art, we can't take every bit of this as truth, and you really shouldn't!
Its truly sad how many kids killed themselves over Kurt . I wonder if he did it , Courtney and kali did it 😓
Her head nods are annoying me.
Hahaha
at least shes attractive and not some lesbian feminist like every other vice chick
@@Blindside23 did some lesbian feminist rejected you?
I get that this is probably supposed to be a "conversation" instead of an "interview," but I don't really give a shit if our "host" agrees or disagrees with Brett, I much rather they ask questions that don't prime his responses so heavily... 'Here are some of the criticisms of this film, but I don't agree with those criticisms...'
i like the interviews with him talking about how he didn't even like nirvana, how frances bean doesn't even like nirvana, that the cartoons and ramblings in writing were nothing special than any other angst teen. this guy is a good interview, but unfortunately panders to the demographic... in the case, vice hipsters.
I wish I was deep. I'm a shallow douchebag.
littleteethkeith Your ability to recognize that makes you deeper than most.
littleteethkeith your not a shallow douche bag. By definition, a douche must be unaware of what a douche they are, so you can't be a douche, you just carry yourself higher than you should perhaps. Your observation of your shallowness shows that you can't be that shallow, since you recognize your tendency to be superficial, something everyone does whether they admit it or not. Chin up cowboy.
TheAnalyticalFailure thats actually a really good point.
everyone is telling you what your not. haha. only people that know you well can answer that. what i can tell you is i do agree with the generalality of the comments being left. and about being shallow. i say that about myself to a certain degree. cause im not the type of guy who goes fucks or gets head off any girl or woman that has a pussy, but i am very picky and sometimes think im shallow. but really. im not. i think that a lot of a relationship has to do with looks. i am attracted to a girl who can hold a good conversation, but at same time, if she isnt "attractive" to me, i wuldnt date (or scew) her. so in a sence that is shallow, but its also knowing what i want. im just not an average guy that fucks anyone. i have to find them attractive. maybe thats what you mean when you say shallow? as far as a douchbag, if you were one you prob arent one as every one is saying, but thats one that only you can answer cause i do know guys who say they are douchebags and then they really fucking are. so peple saying you arent cause you are calling yourself that dont m ean your not. thats just for you to answer. tho, my thinking is, you are not .
Dave Grohl lived with Kurt. He was there when Kurt and Courtney got married.
It amazes me that that girl has to sit there and pretend that anything he is saying is interesting
We need a billy corgan documentary.
Hi I'm an asshole. I made like 3 good songs, and they aren't the ones you hear on the radio. Fast forward 20 years and I'm somehow still...relevant...I think. -Billy