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Hey everyone,

Sorry we've been out of touch for a while. Thanks to everyone who's been continuing to come out to the movie, particularly the folks in Canada and in Chicago who have been so supportive of the film.

There are a few more theatrical dates to let you know about:

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:


February 6, 2008 - Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI

February 6, 2008 - International Film Series at UCB, Boulder, CO


Opens February 8, 2008:
LAS VEGAS, NV - Galazy Neonopolis

COLUMBUS, GA - Peachtree 8

EUGENE, OR - Bijou Art Cinemas



Feburary 9, 2008 - Space Gallery, Portland, ME

Febuary 13, 2008 - Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, NY



February 19 & 20 - Red Vic Movie House, San Francisco, CA

Finally, a couple pieces of important news. First, Barsuk Records is releasing Kurt Cobain About A Son: The Original Score by Steve Fisk and Benjamin Gibbard later this month. It will be available for download first, followed by a special limited edition vinyl release.

Second, for all of you who have been writing nonstop to ask (and even for those of you who've just been curious), the DVD for Kurt Cobain About A Son, featuring exclusive extras, will be available February 19 from Shout! Factory.

Thanks!

Tonight, in Olympia, Washington, About A Son will open at the Capitol Theatre. Thanks to everyone in Olympia who was so helpful in making the film. We hope you can make it out to the Capitol to see the film during the next two weeks.

Hey everyone,

A brief heads-up to let you know that KURT COBAIN ABOUT A SON is opening today in San Francisco, Berkeley, MInneapolis and Tucson. We hope you can make it out and tell your friends. These are all one-week engagements so don't delay.

Here's the info:

NOW PLAYING

SAN FRANCISCO
LUMIERE THEATRE
1572 California Street at Polk
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 267-4893

BERKELEY
SHATTUCK THEATRES
2230 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 464-5980

MINNEAPOLIS
MINNESOTA FILM ARTS@THE BELL AUDITORIUM
10 CHURCH STREET
MINNEAPOLIS MN 55414
(612) 331-3134

TUCSON
THE LOFT CINEMA
3233 EAST SPEEDWAY
TUSCON AZ 85716
(520) 730-9155

Opening next weeked in Olympia, Washington, Charleston, SC and Greensboro, NC.
Opens December 14 in Grand Rapids, MI
Opens December 21 in Austin, TX and Portland, OR
Opens January 4 in San Diego, CA
Opens January 11 in Chicago, IL

Stay tuned for announcements about dates in Canada.

About A Son expands to six new cities today, opening in BOSTON at the Kendall Square, DENVER at the Starz Film Center, NASHVILLE at the Belcourt, ST. LOUIS at the Tivoli, SALT LAKE CITY at the Broadway Centre Theatres and in SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI at the Moxie.

Director AJ Schnack will be in attendance at evening screenings Friday, November 2 and Saturday, November 3 at the Tivoli in ST. LOUIS and at the evening screenings in SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI on Sunday, November 5.

In addition, the film continues at the IFC Center in NEW YORK CITY, playing late night screenings on Friday and Saturday night.

Check out the latest rave reviews over at the official blog.

About A Son director AJ Schnack will be online at WashingtonPost.com on Friday, October 26 at 11:30 AM ET/8:30 AM PT.

To join in on the live discussion or submit questions for AJ, click here.

Kurt Cobain About A Son continues to come to more US cities tomorrow when it opens tomorrow in WASHINGTON DC at the E Street Cinema and in AMHERST, MASS at the Amherst Cinema Arts Center. In addition, the film has been held over for a 4th WEEK> at the IFC Center in New York City.

Check out the amazing review from the Washington Post:

It's hard to believe that a film could be made about Kurt Cobain that would have something of value to add to his already over-mythologized life and death, but "Kurt Cobain About a Son" is just that film, as important for what it reveals about a seminal and grievously misunderstood artist as for how it rejuvenates a moribund documentary form.

AJ Schnack, working with 25 hours of interviews conducted in 1992 and 1993 by Michael Azerrad for his Nirvana book "Come as You Are," has made something beautiful, poetic and honest in "About a Son," a film narrated by Cobain himself as he shares with Azerrad his happy years growing up in Aberdeen, Wash.; his natural affinity for art and music; his early ambition (and abiding love of a slick pop hook); and finally the paralyzing stomach pain that he claimed drove him to self-medication with heroin. Continually throughout these candid, if self-serving, monologues, Cobain, who died in 1994, returns to the primal wound of his life: his parents' divorce when he was 8, which brought his childhood idyll to a sudden and searing end.

As Cobain speaks, gorgeous images of Aberdeen -- as well as Olympia and Seattle, where Cobain eventually lived -- play across the screen, while the music that influenced him (Queen, Mudhoney, Scratch Acid) makes up a soundtrack that doesn't feature one Nirvana song. The result is a film exponentially more vivid and absorbing than the garden-variety rock-doc or biopic. "About a Son" is a must for anyone who still loves Cobain, or still has hope for cinematic portraiture.

If you are in PHILLY or SEATTLE, tonight is your last night to see the film so head out to the Ritz at the Bourse or the Landmark Varsity.

Next week, the film opens in Boston, Denver, Nashville, St. Louis, Salt Lake City and Springfield, Missouri.

Kurt Cobain About A Son will open this Friday in Philadelphia at the Ritz on the Bourse. Director AJ Schnack will be in attendance for the evening screenings on Friday, October 19, including a special conversation with Philly City Paper:

RECOMMENDED! (Director AJ) Schnack refuses to indulge in Ken Burns-y photo montage to illustrate his subject; Cobain's visage doesn't appear until the closing moments, and then only in images of Nirvana onstage, the same way he burst into public consciousness. Instead, the director accompanies the singer's disembodied musings with modern images from the places where the singer lived, depicting the landscape of a life. The cumulative effect sketches Cobain as someone singularly ill-equipped for fame, and his alternately exhausted, whiny and contemplative answers refuse the romanticization that's been thrust upon him.

AJ Schnack will also be in New York City on Saturday afternoon for a Q&A following the 4:05 PM screening at the IFC Center, where the film has been held over for a third week.

The film has also held over in Seattle at the Landmark Varsity. Head on out this weekend if your in the area.

Finally, this Saturday night, there's a special advance screening of the film at the Delancey Screening Room in San Francisco, courtesy of your friends at Noise Pop.

Still more cities confirmed for our ongoing theatrical run. Please note - some of the dates have shifted in the incredibly busy fall movie season. Please check with theatres for times and box office information. Look for still more dates to be announced in the coming weeks.

Now Playing:

New York City
IFC Center

Seattle
Landmark Varsity

Los Angeles
Fairfax Cinemas

Pasadena
Academy Cinemas

Coming Soon:

Philadelphia
Ritz at the Bourse Theatre
Opens October 19
Director AJ Schnack in Person on 10/19

San Francisco
Noise Pop Special Advance Screening
The Delancey Screening Room
One Night Only - Saturday October 20

Washington DC
E Street Cinema
Opens October 26

Amherst, MA
Amherst Cinema Arts Center
Opens October 26

Bellingham, WA
Pickford Cinema
4 Days Only! October 27 - October 30

Boston (Cambridge)
Landmark Kendall Square
Opens November 2

Denver
Starz Film Center
Opens November 2

Nashville
The Belcourt
Opens November 2

St Louis
Landmark Tivoli
Opens November 2

Salt Lake City
Broadway Centre Cinemas
Opens November 2

Springfield, Missouri
Moxie Cinema
Limited Engagement - Opens November 2

Wilmington, NC
Cucalorus Film Festival
One Night Only - November 9

Columbia, SC
Nickelodeon Theatre
Opens November 9

Omaha, NE
Film Streams at the Ruth Sokolof Theater
Opens November 9

Atlanta
Plaza Theatre
Opens November 16

San Francisco
Landmark Lumiere Theatre
Opens November 30

Berkeley, CA
Landmark Shattuck Theatres
Opens November 30

Austin, TX
Dobie Theatre
Opens November 30

Tucson, AZ
The Loft Cinema
Opens November 30

Olympia, WA
The Music Box

Kurt Cobain About A Son will open this Friday in Seattle at the Varsity Theatre. Writer/Interviewer and Co-Producer Michael Azerrad will be in attendance for the 7:10 and 9:45 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday night and will be joined by special guests Charles Peterson, legendary photographer, and one of the composers of the film, Steve Fisk, one of the fathers of the Northwest Music scene.

Read the epic (lengthy and amazing) review by The Stranger's Sean Nelson here. A small excerpt:

"The interesting question, the one About a Son asks, is how could such obvious vulnerability march in time with such calculation? Cobain's contradictions—guilelessness and craftiness, insecurity and ambition, self-love and self-hatred, pride and shame, punk and corporate—have fueled marathon hours of argument between devotees and haters alike. About a Son wisely makes no attempt to reconcile these irreconcilable conflicts of character. It simply understands that such things are human and lets Cobain do all the talking."

AND About A Son continues to play at the IFC Center in New York and it moves from the Nuart in West LA to the Fairfax Cinemas in Los Angeles and to the Academy Theatres in Pasadena.