Check out Kurt Cobain's Favorite Movies of All Time

Check out Kurt Cobain’s top 3 favorite movies of all time

• The legacy of Paris, Texas – Kurt Cobain’s favourite film

In memory of playwright and screenwriter Sam Shepard, we look at the award-winning, Wim Wenders-directed cult movie that Shepard wrote the screenplay for Sam Shepard’s passing means the loss of a fine character actor who lit up films (good, weak and forgettable) with his trademark intensity. It means the loss of a man who liked to get into the skin of ragged outlaws and hard-drinking derelicts, difficult folk with a frontier mentality: those more at ease in solitude, somewhere deep inside nowhere. It means the loss of an important voice in American theatre, whose preoccupation with America’s founding mythologies couldn’t be more poignant at a time of crisis in his country’s standing on the world stage.

He was a playwright, first and foremost. 

• Reservoir Dogs 

Tarantino revealed, “Pearl Jam loved the film, Nirvana loved the film, and Kurt Cobain loved the movie so much he thanked me on his second album. On In Utero, I’m in the thank you’s, and I never met him. He just loved Reservoir Dogs so much that he thanked me in the thank you’s.”

While Tarantino’s adoration for Nirvana seemingly wasn’t reciprocal of Cobain’s love of his work, as he mistakenly labelled In Utero as the Seattle band’s second album. Despite the rookie error, it’s clear that there’s deep respect held for what Cobain managed to do in the music industry and how he forcefully.

Over the Edg

Cinematically, Over the Edge has echoed throughout virtually subsequent American films regarding outsider adolescence, from Penelope Spheeris’s punksploitation favorite Suburbia to Harmony Korine’s geek tornado, Gummo. Screenwriter Tim Hunter even directed Edge’s most potently direct descendent, River’s Edge.

The film has continuously resonated for its audience as well. Case in point: Kurt Cobain, who said: “Over the Edge pretty much defined my whole personality. It was really cool. Total anarchy.”

What’s also really cool is the Over the Edge soundtrack, which is dominated by Cheap Trick, Ramones, Van Halen, and the Cars. The (teen) spirit embodied by the movie—and those songs—announce loud and proud that liberation is an inside job.

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