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It's a little scattershot, but Died Young, Stayed Pretty offers an entertaining, visually appealing look at the indie-rock poster art subculture. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

The creative spirit drives indie artists to create poster art, that is both vulgar as well as beautiful.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Eileen Yaghoobian
Producer:

Eileen Yaghoobian
Writer:

Eileen Yaghoobian
Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 28, 2017
Runtime:

1h 35m
Production Co:

Norotomo Productions

Cast & Crew

Art Chantry

Brian Chippendale

Tom Hazelmyer

Jay Ryan

Dan Schlissel

Eileen Yaghoobian
Director

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Critic Reviews for Died Young Stayed Pretty

All Critics (30) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (11)

Whenever the quaint, binary idea of a scrappy counterculture vs. The Man overshadows the personalities, craft, and musical context, the movie's an Adbusters bore.

July 6, 2010 | Full Review…

Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
Eileen Yaghoobian's documentary presents a lot of good art and entertaining personalities in a package that's diverting on a moment-to-moment basis, but lacks any organizing principal or precise point to make the whole cohere.

July 6, 2010

Dennis Harvey
Variety
Are these cultural artifacts or just more trash littering the light posts and bulletin boards of your city? That all depends on the eye of the beholder.

November 30, 2009 | Full Review…

Mark Fagan
Austin Chronicle
It soon becomes apparent that there's no real structure or point of view to it all.

November 5, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Gary Goldstein
Los Angeles Times
The poster makers... mine the outer limits of violence and misogyny with a garish, pop art palette.

October 21, 2009 | Rating: 3/4

John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
Suffer the perverse undertones and this is a fitting examination of a significant yet overlooked contemporary art form.

October 21, 2009 | Rating: 3/5

Adam Woodward
Little White Lies
Eileen Yaghoobian's fabulous debut doc is an inclusive look at the renaissance of poster art in the wake of punk and the rebirth of a defiant counterculture.

May 24, 2013 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

John Griffin
Montreal Gazette
This is a mildly interesting documentary that takes at face value the claims made for their art by the naive nihilists who design jagged, violent and often obscene posters for local rock groups across North America.

May 24, 2013 | Full Review…

Philip French
Observer (UK)
Concentrated in such alterna-scenes as Boston, Austin, and Seattle, this repulsive bunch [of poster artists] exude more counter-culture geek clichs than Comic Book Guy.

July 6, 2010 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Chris Faraone
Boston Phoenix
Died Young is an entertaining film with sharp cultural observations that even dares to examine the collective American psychoses.

January 28, 2010

Clint O'Connor
Cleveland Plain Dealer
It's a visually stunning film, even if the subject matter isn't hugely compelling.

November 30, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
What a cool, unexpected kick this film was.

November 30, 2009 | Full Review…

Tim Basham
Paste Magazine