DIED YOUNG STAYED PRETTY
Reviews and Articles
Globe and Mail: Review - "Sometimes, to get a handle on our crazy culture, it's best to head away from the mainstream and look hard at the fringes. Perhaps because they themselves often feel marginalized, doc makers have an especially acute eye, and a place in their heart, for folks who occupy the periphery. Think of Errol Morris's work in Gates ofHeaven or Terry Zwigoff's in Crumb. And now add to the list Eileen Yaghoobian with Died Young Stayed Pretty, a documentary that is only nominally about poster art. Really, it's about the poster artists, and what an intriguingly ragtag bunch they are."
Globe and Mail: Interview - "Has shock'n' roll art met its maker?"
Slash Film - One of the valid points of the doc is how few of these artists are known, even to music and concert enthusiasts, and we cannot claim to be anywhere near schooled on the subject.
"Died Young, Stayed Pretty is...a captivating artifact of an era." The Village Voice's resident cartoonist Ward Sutton reviews poster art documentary DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY, A review done, of course, in posters. - Village Voice
Vapors Magazine - "a master at her craft. "
"Raw -- an outlaw movie about outlaw artists" - Peter Rainer, NPR
exclaim.ca - Eileen Yaghoobian moves beyond fashion and reactionary two-chord aggression. Died Young, Stayed Pretty locates the contemporary nexus of punk in the underground gig poster scene.
pronetworks.org - 2009 SXSW Film Festival Choice: "I can't predict what will happen at this year's SXSW Film Festival, but there are certainly several which have piqued my interest. Died Young, Stayed Pretty premiered in Montreal to great acclaim.
Vue Weekly: "4 Stars! - If Helvetica presented the design world as one of Swiss precision and exactitude, a place where people with highfalutin degrees and impeccable credentials debate the particulars of modern and postmodern design, then Eileen Yaghoobian’s Died Young, Stayed Pretty is its anarchic cousin, hungover, slapping together a collage of idiosyncratic found images and figuring out what it all means after, if it bothers to debate meaning at all before moving on to something else."
Uptown Magazine: "A" Rating - Died Young, Stayed Pretty may change your notion of street art and what it represents.
METRO Review: "4 Stars"
Adbusters Review: "thoroughly enjoyable"
Paste Magazine Review: "a fascinating take on the genesis and interplay of the handmade poster art"
Exclaim Magazine: "Indie Rock Poster Doc Coming to Montreal Film Festival "
Liquidtreat.com: "funny, insightful, kooky"
CBC National Radio "Q" host Jian Ghomeshi
(Interview starts at 33:03)
CKUT, 90.3 FM "Aack" with host Andrea Jane Cornell
(HOUR 2 FAST FORWARD to 14.50 for interview)
ioncinema.com: Interview with Eileen Yaghoobian
The Gazette Review: "DIY artists of every stripe, this is your movie"
The Hour Review: "go see it, it's worth your while for sure."
Montreal Mirror: "a fascinating look at the rock poster renaissance"
VOIR: Capsule Review
The Coast: "Atlantic Film Festival flick picks"
The Suburban: "An interesting look into a world that many people know nothing about."
Nightlife Montreal: "Ç'a beau être underground, tu pourras quand même le voir trois fois ce weekend dans le cadre du FFM"
HOW Blog: "unheralded masters of the silkscreen"
Urban Warefare: "awesome new independent movie"
The Gazette: "fabulous debut doc"
Nerdcorp.com: "an intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture"
The McGill Daily: "surprisingly loaded"
The Hour: "insight into the underknown, oft-misunderstood world of wizards and weirdos behind poster art."
The Chronicle Herald: "Yaghoobian uncovers a unique subculture filled with fascinating characters"
Communication Arts: "Died Young Stayed Pretty reveals a new breed of counter-culture artists that set out to destroy the mainstream through controversial and intensely visceral design work."
Reviews and Articles
Globe and Mail: Review - "Sometimes, to get a handle on our crazy culture, it's best to head away from the mainstream and look hard at the fringes. Perhaps because they themselves often feel marginalized, doc makers have an especially acute eye, and a place in their heart, for folks who occupy the periphery. Think of Errol Morris's work in Gates ofHeaven or Terry Zwigoff's in Crumb. And now add to the list Eileen Yaghoobian with Died Young Stayed Pretty, a documentary that is only nominally about poster art. Really, it's about the poster artists, and what an intriguingly ragtag bunch they are."
Globe and Mail: Interview - "Has shock'n' roll art met its maker?"
Slash Film - One of the valid points of the doc is how few of these artists are known, even to music and concert enthusiasts, and we cannot claim to be anywhere near schooled on the subject.
"Died Young, Stayed Pretty is...a captivating artifact of an era." The Village Voice's resident cartoonist Ward Sutton reviews poster art documentary DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY, A review done, of course, in posters. - Village Voice
Vapors Magazine - "a master at her craft. "
"Raw -- an outlaw movie about outlaw artists" - Peter Rainer, NPR
exclaim.ca - Eileen Yaghoobian moves beyond fashion and reactionary two-chord aggression. Died Young, Stayed Pretty locates the contemporary nexus of punk in the underground gig poster scene.
pronetworks.org - 2009 SXSW Film Festival Choice: "I can't predict what will happen at this year's SXSW Film Festival, but there are certainly several which have piqued my interest. Died Young, Stayed Pretty premiered in Montreal to great acclaim.
Vue Weekly: "4 Stars! - If Helvetica presented the design world as one of Swiss precision and exactitude, a place where people with highfalutin degrees and impeccable credentials debate the particulars of modern and postmodern design, then Eileen Yaghoobian’s Died Young, Stayed Pretty is its anarchic cousin, hungover, slapping together a collage of idiosyncratic found images and figuring out what it all means after, if it bothers to debate meaning at all before moving on to something else."
Uptown Magazine: "A" Rating - Died Young, Stayed Pretty may change your notion of street art and what it represents.
METRO Review: "4 Stars"
Adbusters Review: "thoroughly enjoyable"
Paste Magazine Review: "a fascinating take on the genesis and interplay of the handmade poster art"
Exclaim Magazine: "Indie Rock Poster Doc Coming to Montreal Film Festival "
Liquidtreat.com: "funny, insightful, kooky"
CBC National Radio "Q" host Jian Ghomeshi
(Interview starts at 33:03)
CKUT, 90.3 FM "Aack" with host Andrea Jane Cornell
(HOUR 2 FAST FORWARD to 14.50 for interview)
ioncinema.com: Interview with Eileen Yaghoobian
The Gazette Review: "DIY artists of every stripe, this is your movie"
The Hour Review: "go see it, it's worth your while for sure."
Montreal Mirror: "a fascinating look at the rock poster renaissance"
VOIR: Capsule Review
The Coast: "Atlantic Film Festival flick picks"
The Suburban: "An interesting look into a world that many people know nothing about."
Nightlife Montreal: "Ç'a beau être underground, tu pourras quand même le voir trois fois ce weekend dans le cadre du FFM"
HOW Blog: "unheralded masters of the silkscreen"
Urban Warefare: "awesome new independent movie"
The Gazette: "fabulous debut doc"
Nerdcorp.com: "an intimate look at some of the giants of this modern subculture"
The McGill Daily: "surprisingly loaded"
The Hour: "insight into the underknown, oft-misunderstood world of wizards and weirdos behind poster art."
The Chronicle Herald: "Yaghoobian uncovers a unique subculture filled with fascinating characters"
Communication Arts: "Died Young Stayed Pretty reveals a new breed of counter-culture artists that set out to destroy the mainstream through controversial and intensely visceral design work."