A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent of those of Kurt Cobain.A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent of those of Kurt Cobain.A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent of those of Kurt Cobain.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 5 nominations
Scott Patrick Green
- Scott
- (as Scott Green)
Rodrigo Lopresti
- Band in Club
- (as The Hermitt)
Kurt Loder
- TV Voiceover
- (voice)
Michael Azerrad
- TV Voiceover
- (voice)
Chris Monlux
- Phone Voice
- (voice)
Jack Gibson
- Phone Voice
- (voice)
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- Writer
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- TriviaThadeus A. Thomas was a real Yellow Pages salesman who wandered onto the set one day and tried to sell the cast and crew ad space. Gus Van Sant was so intrigued by him he asked him to appear in the film.
- GoofsOne of the LDS missionaries that visits the house is wearing a light blue shirt. LDS missionaries are only permitted to wear non-decorative white shirts with dark pants/suits, and a conservative tie. The missionaries also carried no pamphlets, visual aids, appointment books, or their own complete sets of scriptures, which is highly unlikely for door-to-door proselytizing.
- SoundtracksLa Guerre
Written by Clément Jannequin (as Janequin)
Recorded by The King's Singers
Courtesy of BBC Worldwide
By Arrangement with BBC Music
Featured review
"Last Days", Gus Van Sant's experimental film loosely inspired by Kurt Cobain's, err, last days, is not one of his best, but it's certainly not the worst (the "Psycho" remake, anyone?). Even though it's not half as poignant as the previous "Elephant", which has similar style, I admire Van Sant for daring to make such a personal, non-commercial film. "Last Days" is slow, hard to watch, "boring" as some people say, but that suits a brave attempt to show some moments of a troubled musician, "Blake" (Michael Pitt, from the wonderful "The Dreamers"), who seems completely lost and away from reality, trying to escape from himself in his house, surrounded by "friends" who are only interested in his money. Nothing "happens", like everybody says, throughout the film, and Van Sant partially succeeds in showing us the big empty inside and around Blake with bitter, raw strength. Pitt's performance is low-key at most, and Ricky Jay ("Magnolia") and Lukas Haas ("Witness"), two criminally underrated actors, don't disappoint in their small roles. We can't say anyone in the cast stands out, though, because this is a movie where the scenery (the house, the forest) is the biggest character, eating Blake up.
"Last Days" didn't engage me enough to make me want to re-watch it, but I didn't regret watching it. Far from being a masterpiece, but worth seeing if you're looking for a different option and are interested in the main subject, of course. This is not a movie for a Kelly Clarkson or Lindsay Lohan fan, but please don't say this is the biggest piece of pretentious crap out there - I'm pretty sure Björk|Matthew Barney's "Drawing Restraint 9" is a lot worse.
"Last Days" didn't engage me enough to make me want to re-watch it, but I didn't regret watching it. Far from being a masterpiece, but worth seeing if you're looking for a different option and are interested in the main subject, of course. This is not a movie for a Kelly Clarkson or Lindsay Lohan fan, but please don't say this is the biggest piece of pretentious crap out there - I'm pretty sure Björk|Matthew Barney's "Drawing Restraint 9" is a lot worse.
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- Sep 23, 2006
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $463,080
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $86,556
- Jul 24, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $2,456,454
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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