Kurt Cobain: About A Son — Behind the Movie That’s Moving Audiences to Tears

Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm

Since a bit of footage from Kurt Cobain: About a Son hit the Web, there’s been a lot of speculation about the movie, due in October. So we got the scoop straight from the film's co-producer, Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana author Michael Azerrad, who first met Cobain to interview him for a Rolling Stone cover story. You’ll hear only one voice in About a Son Cobain's and there’s no footage of Nirvana or even Kurt himself in the film, which Azerrad reiterated isn’t a documentary but a retelling of Cobain’s life in his own words. It was more about bringing him into the realm of a three-dimensional human being, not the cartoon rock icon, says Azerrad, who drew from a bank of more than twenty-five hours of previously unheard audio tape for the project, which was directed by AJ Shnack. It's not a look back at Kurt, it's a look into Kurt. The visuals are comprised of award-winning cinematography shot on 35 mm film of the three

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