| Directors |
Scot Barbour [Bio]
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| Producers |
Barbour, Scot
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| Country |
United States of America
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| Languages |
English |
| Description |
‘He was Seattle’s only stand up heavy metal comic.’—Jack Endino, recording engineer. This is the intensely intimate portrait of the man whose music ‘kick-started the last great pop mutiny of the 20th century’. At the heart of the underground scene that would later become known as grunge was Andrew Wood, lead singer of Malfunkshun, and later Mother Love Bone. The cherubic, disarming Wood overdosed two weeks before MLB’s début album, the focus of a major bidding war between Polygram and Geffen, was due to be released. Wood’s bandmates and friends (including members of Soundgarden and those who would go on to form Pearl Jam) collaborated to record a tribute album, Temple of the Dog, which was hugely successful, and a year later grunge exploded internationally with the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Scot Barbour has pieced together a beautifully textured film from an incredible amount of archival footage and photographs of Andy himself, and current interviews with his family, friends (a who’s who of grunge too large to list here), and girlfriend. A child of the 1970s, whose influences ranged from Glenn Campbell to Elton John to KISS, it is a lovely irony to see that grunge’s flannelette-clad image descended from Wood’s highly theatrical persona and heavily made-up alter ego ‘Landrew the Lovechild’. The joy that this charismatic creature’s short life brought to those around him is reflected in the film’s visual playfulness, while the heartbreak of his drug addiction and untimely death is laid bare in the testimony of the people who loved him. Featuring a haunting soundtrack of Wood’s work, this is an important film which marks an incredible transition in the history of popular culture. |
| Length |
96 mins |
| Source |
Seventh Art Releasing |
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http://www.malfunkshun.com/ |
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