Air Loaf: Iranian Films Today
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about the annual Iranian Film Today series taking place at the High Museum. Films include Unfinished Stories (Sat., Sept. 13), A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral (Fri., Sept. 12) and Persian Carpet (Sat., Sept. 6).
Air Loaf is broadcast weekdays on 1690 WMLB-AM at approximately 8:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m.






CL’s Edward Adams and Allison Keene speak with actor Haaz Sleiman (right) on the film.



Kurt Cobain: About a Son may not be the documentary that satisfies Nirvana fans with some fascinating new vantage. Much of this material – parental divorce, drugs, depression – has been covered before. Director AJ Schnack’s hook is more sensual: His film capitalizes on the intimacy afforded in actual audio recordings of Cobain’s voice. Schnack has used audio from 25 hours’ worth of interviews Cobain did from December 1992 to March 1993 with journalist Azerrad to reanimate the singer. He sets those interviews to imagery of Cobain’s Pacific Northwest stomping ground, attempting an impressionistic portrait of what life might have looked like through Cobain’s eyes.
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten doesn’t look much like the usual rock-star documentary of the “Behind the Music” model. Director Julien Temple crafts something of an Irish wake for the Clash’s frontman, who justly called himself a “punk-rock warlord” and died in 2002 of a congenital heart defect.
The queen of drag finally comes full circle – once a hopeful young gay man looking for acceptance, now a returning heroine – on his trip back to Atlanta for the Out on Film premiere of his first self-written and self-produced feature film, Starrbooty.