{"id":53933,"date":"2023-01-25T09:42:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=53933"},"modified":"2023-01-25T09:45:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:45:56","slug":"tel-aviv-cinematheque-hosts-documentary-filmmaker-brett-morgen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=53933","title":{"rendered":"Tel Aviv Cinematheque Hosts Documentary Filmmaker Brett Morgen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tel Aviv Cinematheque will host documentary filmmaker Brett Morgen, who will be in attendance for the screening of his film <em>Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck<\/em> on Sunday, January 29, 2023. Morgen will visit Israel as the guest of the Tisch School for Film and Television, Tel Aviv University. <em>Moonage Daydream<\/em>, Morgen&#8217;s documentary on David Bowie, will be screened on Monday, January 30, 2023.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53934\" style=\"width: 888px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53934 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Cobain-Montage-of-Heck-HBO-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"888\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Cobain-Montage-of-Heck-HBO-small.jpg 888w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Cobain-Montage-of-Heck-HBO-small-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Cobain-Montage-of-Heck-HBO-small-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Cobain-Montage-of-Heck-HBO-small-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 888px) 100vw, 888px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck\/Photo courtesy of HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Morgen will participate in a conversation with Ohad Landsman following the screening of <em>Montage of Heck<\/em> on Sunday, January 29<sup>th<\/sup>. Morgen is well known for the documentary films <em>The Kid Stays in the Picture<\/em> (2002) that focuses on Hollywood producer Robert Evans, <em>Crossfire Hurricane<\/em> (2012) that chronicles the early years of the Rolling Stones, <em>Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck<\/em> (2015), <em>Jane<\/em> (2017) that explores the life and work of primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall, and his most recent film, <em>Moonage Daydream<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n<p><em>Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck<\/em> follows the tumultuous life of Cobain, lead singer and guitarist of Nirvana from his birth in 1967, to his suicide at the age of 27. Courtney Love, Cobain\u2019s widow, approached Morgen with the idea of making the documentary, and supplied him with access to all of Cobain\u2019s archives. The film encompasses a plethora of material on Cobain and Nirvana, including footage from performances, home movies, Cobain\u2019s artwork and journals. The rare footage and interviews with those close to Cobain offer an intimate portrait of the artist and the man. Montage of Heck will be shown at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque on Sunday, January 29<sup>th<\/sup> at 20:00, followed by a conversation with the film\u2019s director Brett Morgen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DsB6SzPV9B0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53935\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53935\" style=\"width: 787px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53935 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Bowie-Moonage-Daydream-Credit-Neon-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Bowie-Moonage-Daydream-Credit-Neon-small.jpg 787w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Bowie-Moonage-Daydream-Credit-Neon-small-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Bowie-Moonage-Daydream-Credit-Neon-small-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Bowie-Moonage-Daydream-Credit-Neon-small-640x407.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53935\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moonage Daydream\/Photo: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Moonage Daydream<\/em> is the first film about David Bowie to be authorized by Bowie\u2019s estate. In making the film Morgen had access to an extensive archive that included Bowie\u2019s paintings, recordings, photographs, films, and journals. The film\u2019s music producer is Tony Visconti, who worked with Bowie intermittently from 1968 \u2013 2016. <em>Moonage Daydream<\/em> will be shown on Monday, January 30<sup>th<\/sup> at 20:30.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c70ko07julc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nTickets may be ordered online from the Tel Aviv Cinematheque:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema.co.il\/en\/event\/%d7%a7%d7%95%d7%91%d7%99%d7%99%d7%9f-montage-of-heck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montage of Heck<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema.co.il\/en\/event\/%d7%93%d7%99%d7%95%d7%95%d7%99%d7%93-%d7%91%d7%95%d7%90%d7%99-moonage-daydream-%d7%a1%d7%99%d7%a0%d7%9e%d7%98%d7%a7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moonage Daydream\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tel Aviv Cinematheque will host documentary filmmaker Brett Morgen, who will be in attendance for the screening of his film Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck on Sunday, January 29, 2023. Morgen will visit Israel as the guest of the Tisch School for Film and Television, Tel Aviv University. Moonage Daydream, Morgen&#8217;s documentary on David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[262,59,261,122],"class_list":["post-53933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-davidbowie","tag-documentary","tag-kurtcobain","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}