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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783137322
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078313732X
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 11438
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Editorial Review:
Description:
An official selection in the 2005 Cannes Film festival, GUS VAN SANT'S LAST DAYS is inspired by the final hours of Kurt Cobain. The film introduces us to Blake (Michael Pitt, The Dreamers), a brilliant, but troubled musician. Success has left him in a lonely place, where livelihoods rest on his shoulders and old friends regularly tap him for money and favors. The film follows Blake through a handful of hours spent in and near his wooded home... a fugitive from his own life.
DVD Features:
Deleted Scenes
Music Video:'Happy Song' by Pagoda
Other:The Making Of
Outtakes:On the set of Gus Van Sant's Last Days: The Long Dolly Shot
Amazon.com:
Gus Van Sant's Last Days is a film about the death of Kurt Cobain. While the name of the main character has been changed from Kurt to Blake and the setting of the suicide changed from a greenhouse in Seattle to a greenhouse in upstate New York, there's no mistaking this film is the product of Van Sant's imagination pursuing the final, lonely moments of the great '90s icon. Rock biopic fans seeking a traditionally gratifying plot should run as fast as they can from this movie and see Rock Star or Sid and Nancy instead; Gus Van Sant's methodology is all about the slow, oppressive creep of time. One shot lingers excruciatingly long on some random foliage outside Blake's (Michael Pitt, The Dreamers) mansion. In another, he makes cereal. Then he sits on a bench for awhile. Or mumbles dialogue to a Yellow Pages ad salesman played by a real-life Yellow Pages ad salesman. Or gradually collapses while watching a Boyz 2 Men video. Meanwhile, Blake's parasitical hangers-on are slightly more animated, occupying his chilly house and clearly on their way to becoming as existentially destitute as he. Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon appears, pretty much reprising an interventionist role she must have played with the real-life Cobain, but this rock star is far beyond rescuing from the brink. Later, when Blake ventures into town to see a punk show, he is cornered by an acquaintance played by Harmony Korine, who tells him a hilarious story about playing Dungeons and Dragons with Jerry Garcia. Where the accumulation of small moments like these don't add up to much drama, they create a pervading sense of dread and sad inevitability. In his life, Cobain railed against all that was phony and hyped; by crafting a visual poem resolutely defiant of rock star spectacle, Van Sant honors the late singer as sincerely as he can, by keeping it real. --Ryan Boudinot
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great video
I bought this for my 14-year old daugher, who is just discovering Kurt Cobain and she loved it. She's probably watched it 6 times since we bought it.
Rating:  - Almost gave it two
Gus Van Sant has had some movies that I've enjoyed. I knew of "Gerry" and frankly, I liked that movie. I can't get into this one. It's the same style as Gerry, the long shots, capturing the panorama, little dialogue, all things I kind of liked. Maybe it was that Gerry was energetic. The character in Last Days is just mentally out of synch and so he doesn't appear to be an interesting movie. The acting's great.
Rating: - horrible
watch the trailer and you basically have the whole movie.
a guy who stumbles around high and mumbles to himself..
Rating: - End of his days
Kurt Cobain was that all-too-familiar spectacle of rock'n'roll -- a young genius who is ruined by his own success and inner demons, and ends up dying too early.
And while Gus Van Sant never openly admits that the protagonist of "Last Days" is Cobain, it's pretty obvious to anyone with five active brain cells that this is a story about his last days. Unfortunately it's hardly a fitting eulogy to such a vibrant personality -- instead it's a slow grind of excruciatingly dull, unspeakably ... Read More
Rating: - never receieved
I am yet to receive this product. I'm sure the movie is amazing, but I'm still waiting to get it.
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