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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.
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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. Jul 6, 2010 | Full Review…
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.
Nick Pinkerton
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. Jul 6, 2010
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.
Dennis Harvey
It soon becomes apparent that there's no real structure or point of view to it all. Nov 5, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It soon becomes apparent that there's no real structure or point of view to it all.
Gary Goldstein
The poster makers... mine the outer limits of violence and misogyny with a garish, pop art palette. Oct 21, 2009 | Rating: 3/4
The poster makers... mine the outer limits of violence and misogyny with a garish, pop art palette.
John Monaghan
Suffer the perverse undertones and this is a fitting examination of a significant yet overlooked contemporary art form. Oct 21, 2009 | Rating: 3/5
Suffer the perverse undertones and this is a fitting examination of a significant yet overlooked contemporary art form.
Adam Woodward
The equivalent of being trapped in the lift of an east London style magazine while the entire staff simultaneously shout their theories of civilisation at you, this documentary is that tragic thing. Oct 16, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The equivalent of being trapped in the lift of an east London style magazine while the entire staff simultaneously shout their theories of civilisation at you, this documentary is that tragic thing.
Stuart McGurk
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…
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.
John Griffin
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…
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.
Philip French
Concentrated in such alterna-scenes as Boston, Austin, and Seattle, this repulsive bunch [of poster artists] exude more counter-culture geek clichés than Comic Book Guy. Jul 6, 2010 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Concentrated in such alterna-scenes as Boston, Austin, and Seattle, this repulsive bunch [of poster artists] exude more counter-culture geek clichés than Comic Book Guy.
Chris Faraone
Died Young is an entertaining film with sharp cultural observations that even dares to examine the collective American psychoses. Jan 28, 2010
Died Young is an entertaining film with sharp cultural observations that even dares to examine the collective American psychoses.
Clint O'Connor
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. Nov 30, 2009 | Full Review…
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.
Mark Fagan
It's a visually stunning film, even if the subject matter isn't hugely compelling. Nov 30, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's a visually stunning film, even if the subject matter isn't hugely compelling.
Rich Cline
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