‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck’ Just Got Even Better [Video]
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is already drawing notoriety and it’s still almost two months away from the May 4 television premiere, according to Rolling Stone magazine. The HBO-produced documentary about Nirvana’s late lead singer has already debuted to sold-out showing at the Sundance and the True/False film festivals, but there may be even more to anticipate in the accompanying soundtrack to the film.
Montage of Heck‘s director Brett Morgen just revealed in a tweet that “a mind-blowing 12-minute acoustic Cobain unheard track” will be included on the soundtrack, further teasing Nirvana and Kurt Cobain fans already frenzied over the release of the documentary. Morgen wouldn’t elaborate further on the additional Kurt Cobain footage, but he did mention in a January Rolling Stone interview that Montage of Heck‘s entire score is comprised of previously unheard Cobain music.
“The score is all unreleased Cobain music. They don’t have titles. Before people saw the movie, there were these weird press releases focusing on the unreleased music. And it’s like: It’s a movie. We’re not going to stop it and play a song for four minutes. But nobody in Kurt’s life — not his management, wife, bandmates — had ever heard his Beatles thing [a snippet of “And I Love Her”]. I found it on a random tape. It’s a Paul song. How’s that for shattering the myth?”
While Kurt’s wife declined to be involved in the film and only reluctantly viewed the film prior to its showings at the film festival, the Hollywood Reporter lists Frances Bean Cobain, Kurt’s daughter, as an executive producer on the Montage of Heck documentary. Montage of Heck takes viewers on a voyeuristic through Kurt Cobain’s life, beginning with his early childhood, and later explores Cobain’s intense artistic drive and the internal conflict that creates with his desire for a “normal life” with wife Courtney and daughter Frances.
Newly released, the trailer gives fans just a teasing look at what they might expect from Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck.
As mentioned earlier, there is still a two-month wait for the premiere of the documentary, but a Montage of Heck companion book will be released on April 7. The book will be comprised of “a mixture of animation stills, rare photography and other treasures from Kurt Cobain’s personal archive.” It will also include detailed transcripts from the exclusive interviews conducted by Morgen for the film, as well as Morgen’s own memoirs on being the first to produce a Kurt Cobain documentary to have obtained the family’s blessing.
The title, Montage of Heck, was chosen from a 30-minute sound collage created by the Nirvana frontman in 1988. The film will be comprised of live Nirvana concert footage as well as from Cobain family home movies, along with animation similar to that seen in Morgen’s Robert Evans documentary.
Meanwhile, Courtney Love has moved forward with a new role and begun a new, drug-free lifestyle, as reported in this Inquisitr article.
