⁣Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is a 2015 American documentary film about Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain. The film was directed by Brett Morgen and premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
It received a limited theatrical release worldwide and premiered on television in the United States on HBO on May 4, 2015. The documentary chronicles the life of Kurt Cobain from his birth in Aberdeen, Washington in 1967, through his troubled early family life and teenage years and rise to fame as front man of Nirvana, up to his suicide in April 1994 in Seattle at the age of 27.
The film includes artwork by Cobain as well as music and sound collages composed by him. Much of music and sound collages were released on the film's soundtrack, Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings. A companion book was also released containing animation stills from the film as well as transcripts of interviews, photographs, and Cobain's artwork that were not featured in the film.

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George Harrison first became known to the world as 'The Quiet Beatle', but there was far more to his life than simply being a part of The Beatles. This film explores the life and career of this seminal musician, philanthropist, film producer and amateur race car driver who grew to make his own mark on the world.
Through his music, archival footage and the memories of friends and family, Harrison's deep spirituality and humanity are explored in his singular life as he took on artistic challenges and important causes as only he could.
Using unseen photos and footage, Academy Award®-winning director Martin Scorsese traces the life of George Harrison in a personal film, weaving together performance footage, home movies, rare archival materials and interviews with his family and friends including Eric Clapton, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, George Martin, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr and Jackie Stewart.

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⁣The Hollywood Vampires take their name from an all-star social club that drank itself to oblivion during the mid 1970s at the Rainbow Bar and Grill on The Sunset Strip. The 2019 documentary The Rainbow chronicles the restaurant’s place in the Los Angeles music scene and is an engaging profile of the family that’s run it for three generations (that is, when it’s not indulging in lazy nostalgia). Directed by Zak Knutson, it is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
Since opening in 1972, the Rainbow has offered food and drinks to successive generations of rockers. Located in West Hollywood, betwixt a cluster of music venues, it was popular with bands visiting Los Angeles as well as those living and trying to make it in the City of Angels. Besides the Hollywood Vampires – which included Alice Cooper, a couple Beatles and riotous Who drummer Keith Moon, Led Zeppelin picked up groupies there, The Runaways ate there and a teenage Slash snuck in dressed as a woman. Motörhead’s Lemmy loved the place so much he bought an apartment within walking distance and was often found drinking Jack Daniel’s and playing video poker at the bar for hours on end.
Behind it all was the Maglieri family, led by tough talking patriarch Mario, who came to Los Angeles from Chicago in the early 1960s to help run another storied local institution, the Whisky A Go Go. Mario is hard not to like, dropping one-liners like “I had rock n’ roll in my bar in Chicago before you ever heard of rock n’ roll,” calling Jim Morrison “a good kid,” and telling stories about throwing Charles Manson out on his ass, like a real life Cliff Booth. “He says, ‘I’m Jesus.’ I tell him, ‘I’m God motherfucker. Now get up from that chair.’ He got up or I’d have had to beat the shit out of him. Either one.”
Though its capacity was in the hundreds, the Whisky became one of the most important L.A. music clubs of the ‘60s and ‘70s. The Doors and Chicago were the house bands at various times, Van Halen used it to built their audience and scores of trailblazing acts made their area on its stage. As Kiss’ Gene Simmons says, “When you first start out and before you figure out your game, the Whisky’s the place to do it.” In fact, the Maglieri have an interest in both the Whisky and the Rainbow, and the film is as much about the venue as the bar up the street.
As the ’70s turned to the ’80s, hard rock turned to metal, from glam to thrash, and again found a home on the Sunset Strip. W.A.S.P. and L.A. Guns drummer Steve Riley says he went to the Rainbow the first night he moved to L.A. and it became a great place to meet other hungry young rock musicians looking to form bands. Thought it all, Mario Maglieri was there to comp musicians a bowl of soup or offer fatherly advice, telling young rock stars when they were drinking too much or doing too many drugs.
REVIEW RESOURCE: https://decider.com/2020/02/24..../the-rainbow-documen

⁣This documentary about Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band picks up where Ron Howard left off – without any of the band’s music or even images
It’s not easy to make a documentary about the greatest album in history when you don’t have access to a single note of the music, but this documentary forges on and cashes in regardless, perhaps assuming its target audience already knows the band’s back catalogue (or won’t realise there’s no Beatles music in it). It cannily picks up the story where last year’s “official” doc – Ron Howard’s Eight Days a Week – left off: the pivotal year of 1967, when the band gave up touring, recorded Sgt Pepper and met the Maharishi.
This history is raked over by greying, second-tier talking heads in granular detail, right down to the design of the “get well soon” card John Lennon drew for George Harrison’s sister-in-law. But without the supporting music, or even images, there’s a dancing-about-architecture feel to the whole exercise. A good 10 minutes is devoted to the album’s iconic sleeve design, for example, without ever showing the sleeve itself.
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⁣If you’re not familiar with the name Alain Johannes, there’s a good chance he’s had something to do with an album in your collection. Whether he played on it, recorded it, or mixed it, Johannes has been a major contributor to such bands as Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, Mark Lanegan, Puscifer, Eagles of Death Metal, Arctic Monkeys, and PJ Harvey – to mention only a few. His staggering list of credits as either a producer, session musician, or touring band member is only one aspect of his notable career in modern music.


Perhaps the most important credit in his career is the six albums he produced with wife Natasha Shneider and their alternative rock band Eleven. Criminally underrated, Eleven earned some decent exposure in the 90’s supporting Soundgarden and Pearl Jam on tour, but their sound just never fit into the trends of the decade. Johannes and Shneider would continue with Eleven, while also finding themselves as highly sought after session musicians and producers. Most notably, the pair were recruited to play on and co-produce Chris Cornell’s debut solo album Euphoria Morning and later they would make significant contributions to the Queens album Songs for the Deaf.
Johannes’s relationship with Shneider was one of music and love that’s difficult to describe. Indeed, as I began drafting this review, I found myself struggling to avoid cliches.


Soulmates is such a trite term, but finding an equivalent synonym to describe the couple is futile. Aside from being in love with each other, they shared – as Soundgarden/Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron describes – a “telepathic musical relationship.” Indeed, many who appear in Unifinished Plan marvel at how the two worked together. The bond of their romantic relationship and the music they created was intertwined. Needless to say, it was nothing less than heartbreaking – for Johannes and everyone who knew the couple – when Shneider succumbed to Cancer in 2008.


A devastated Johannes would go on to produce a solo album, 2010’s Spark, as a love letter and thank you to Shneider. Nevertheless, this cathartic effort marks only the beginning of Johannes’s journey without her. The Chilean born musician would go on to visit his home country to meet his estranged Father for the first time and reconnect with his roots. This journey would include forming a band with Chilean musicians to perform Eleven songs.


Directed by Rodolfo Gárate, Unfinished Plan: The Path of Alain Johannes presents the story of Johannes much better than my meager summary. Beautifully shot and full of footage of Johannes and Shneider (with and without their band Eleven), Garate skillfully charts Johannes’s life with the reverence. Throughout the film, appearances by the members of Soundgarden (Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron, Ben Shepherd), Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys), and Mark Lanegan are important as they discuss the musical genius of Johannes, but also because each of them were deeply affected by Johannes and Shneider, not just as musical peers, but close friends. Thus these interviews, alongside those with Johannes’s sister and other family members, present Johannes as a human, not just a ridiculously talented musician. For this, Gárate should be praised. While it’s difficult to separate Johannes from his music – for how intensely they were connected – Gárate delicately balances the films narrative. Unfinished Plan is a touching and emotionally engaging film, one that will appeal to anyone, not just music lovers or fans of Johannes.
– J. Kevin Lynch

REVIEW RESOURCE: https://thevoidreport.com/2018..../12/12/film-review-u