The new film attempting to imagine what the final hours of Kurt Cobain’s life might have been like was screened for the first time at the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (May 13) and will be released now in the rest of Europe between the end of September and beginning of October.
'Last Days', which was made by 'Good Will Hunting' director Gus Van Sant, trails a musician called Blake (played by Michael Pitt) and his grunge band. The movie follows the tormented blonde haired singer as he hides from managers, friends and record company executives during the lead-up to his death. A decaying artist who is sinking fast under the height of fame, weight of creativity and the depth of isolation. "Last Days" follows Blake through an hour-glass of time as he haunts a wooded home, a fugitive from time and space. It is a period of random events and cold human contact that culminates in a last gasp of musicality. Introspective artist Blake is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation. Dwarfed by towering trees, Blake slowly makes his way through dense woods. He scrambles down an embankment to a fresh spring and undresses for a short swim. The next morning he returns to his house, an elegant, if neglected, stone mansion. Many people are looking for Blake--his friends, his managers and record label, even a private detective--but he does not want to be found. In the haze of his final hours, Blake will spend most his time by himself. He avoids the people who are living in his house, who approach him only when they want something, be it money or help with a song. He hides from one concerned friend and turns away another. He visits politely with a stranger from the Yellow Pages sales department, and he ducks into an underground rock club. He wanders through the woods and he plays a new song, one last rock and roll blowout. Finally, alone in the greenhouse, Blake will look and listen--and seek release.Although inspired by Kurt Cobain, it’s a work of fiction.
'Last Days', which was made by 'Good Will Hunting' director Gus Van Sant, trails a musician called Blake (played by Michael Pitt) and his grunge band. The movie follows the tormented blonde haired singer as he hides from managers, friends and record company executives during the lead-up to his death. A decaying artist who is sinking fast under the height of fame, weight of creativity and the depth of isolation. "Last Days" follows Blake through an hour-glass of time as he haunts a wooded home, a fugitive from time and space. It is a period of random events and cold human contact that culminates in a last gasp of musicality. Introspective artist Blake is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation. Dwarfed by towering trees, Blake slowly makes his way through dense woods. He scrambles down an embankment to a fresh spring and undresses for a short swim. The next morning he returns to his house, an elegant, if neglected, stone mansion. Many people are looking for Blake--his friends, his managers and record label, even a private detective--but he does not want to be found. In the haze of his final hours, Blake will spend most his time by himself. He avoids the people who are living in his house, who approach him only when they want something, be it money or help with a song. He hides from one concerned friend and turns away another. He visits politely with a stranger from the Yellow Pages sales department, and he ducks into an underground rock club. He wanders through the woods and he plays a new song, one last rock and roll blowout. Finally, alone in the greenhouse, Blake will look and listen--and seek release.Although inspired by Kurt Cobain, it’s a work of fiction.
Two members of the pioneering band Sonic Youth feature in Last Days. Bass player / guitarist and singer Kim Gordon takes a came roll as a record executive whilst Thurston Moore takes a roll as music consultant.
Although the film is not about Cobain, Van Sant said it is inspired by his suicide and his previous two movies ('Elephant' and 'Gerry') , both influenced by stories of death.”Elephant” was a way to look at the wave of school shootings, like Columbine, that happened in America in the late 1990s. And 'Last Days' came out of the death of Kurt Cobain in 1994," he told the BBC. "When Cobain died, there was a real intense fascination with his last days from seemingly the entire world. It is one of those suicides, like Hunter S Thompson's or Elliott Smith's - it's always affecting."Being from Portland, we sort of lived in the shadow of that music," he explained in an interview the afternoon before the SIFF premiere. "I think that moment (Cobain's death in 1994) is where all of it just stopped abruptly. There was this big thing that came out of the sky and stopped alternative music."A year later, he started developing the film that would evolve into "Last Days."Gus van Sant calls his new movie "a meditation on isolation, death and loss."
"There are a lot of hypotheses about what happened (some claim it was homicide), but I don't know of any full eyewitness account, just tiny momentary ones. Everyone has a different opinion, but there's not one true, authoritative account. He was just kind of missing." Instead of Cobain deciding to kill himself, "Last Days" suggests that the troubled singer was already resigned to his own death and that the process was already in motion long before he went missing and was found dead from a gunshot wound.
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A new Nirvana compilation called "Sliver" is also set for release next month, according to US reports. Rolling Stone has confirmed the release of Sliver and even reports that Frances Bean helped choose the title and cover art: "Three previously unreleased Nirvana songs will surface November 1st when Geffen/Universal issue Sliver, a compilation of Nirvana rarities and demos. This appears to be the "rarities" album which was planned for a 2005 release as part of the legal settlement between Courtney and the Krist/Dave camp in 2002.The twenty-two-track CD will be rounded out with material from With the Lights Out, the Nirvana box set released last November. The album will include three as-yet unreleased tracks, including songs called "Spank Thru (Faecal Matter)," "Sappy (Endino-produced demo) ," and an unheard version of "Come As You Are (boombox) ." The rest of Sliver includes songs chosen from 2004's Nirvana box set With The Lights Out.
Sliver tracklisting:
"Spank Thru" (Faecal Matter)
"Heartbreaker" (first Nirvana show)
"Mrs. Butterworth" (band demo)
"Floyd the Barber" (live)
"Clean Up Before She Comes" (home demo)
"About a Girl" (home demo)
"Sappy" (Endino-produced demo)
"Blandest" (Endino-produced demo)
"Ain't it a Shame" (The Jury)
"Lithium" (KAOS/Calvin Johnson)
"Opinion" (KAOS/Calvin Johnson)
"Sliver" (home demo)
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" (boombox)
"Come As You Are" (boombox)
"Old Age" (Nevermind outtake)
"Oh The Guilt" (Touch and Go single)
"Rape Me" (solo acoustic)
"Rape Me" (band demo)
"Heart Shaped Box" (Rio demo)
"Do Re Mi" (home demo w/ Pat Smear)
"You Know You're Right" (solo acoustic)
"All Apologies" (solo acoustic)
Sliver marks the first time Frances Bean Cobain, the thirteen-year-old daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and rocker Courtney Love, has taken an active role in her father's legacy. 'We're pulling Frances into the family business,' Love told Rolling Stone. In addition to helping select the title, Frances Bean also played a role in choosing the cover image. 'Courtney and I involve Frances in Nirvana/Kurt decisions whenever we can,' says Peter Asher, who manages Love and the Cobain estate. 'She's very perceptive and has cool ideas.' With the Lights Out was delayed for several years due to legal battles between Love and surviving Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl, but there were no such troubles with Sliver."
The album will be released on October 31 in Europe.
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