Died Young Stayed Pretty
Died Young, Stayed Pretty is a 2008 documentary movie on underground indierock poster art and its subculture. The film was written, directed and produced by Eileen Yaghoobian who filmed on location indifferent states from 2004 to 2007. It features posters for Radiohead, White Stripes, Arcade Fire, The Flaming Lips, The Melvins, Nick Cave, Broken Social Scene, Black Keys, Sonic Youth, Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, Bob Dylan and Marianne Faithfull. Poster artists whose work appear in the film include Ames Bros, Amy Jo Hendrickson, Dan Grzeca, Methane Studios, Todd Slater and Zachary Hobbs.
Mark Greenberg of the band The Coctails createdoriginal tracks for the film. Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt band and Black Pus are featured.The film received mixed reviews with most reviewers praising the films visual concept and some criticizing its disorganization, and some praised its freeform group portrait of people, Peter Rainer of NPR points to the films deconstruction as Raw an outlaw movie about outlaw artists. Ward Sutton of the Village Voice wrote that Died Young Stayed Pretty is a captivating artifact of an era. Film critic V.A. Musetto of the New York Post gave the film three out of four stars writing, Yaghoobians nonlinear editing is as offbeat as the postersShe lets scenes run a few seconds longer than most directors wouldto good effect. Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote that it presents a lot of good art and entertaining personalities..., but lacks any organizing principal or precise point. Vadim Rizov of IndieWireSpout published a very favorable review praising the editing structure, Yaghoobian lives for tangents, byways, oneoffs, weird interview interruptions and non sequiturs this is the mostedited documentary Ive seen in a while, and one of the bestedited too. Shes amped up the nonlinear, multidialectical logic of Fast, Cheap amp Out Of Control to a faster tempo if not as strangely affecting, it has an equally eccentric score by Mark Greenberg. As of July 2013, the movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes rated the film at 61 on its Tomatometer, based on the reviews ofcritics. ........
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