Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel P. David Ebersole
Thursday, November 10, 2011 | 7:00pm
The Rio Theatre
1660 East Broadway, Vancouver
DOXA Documentary Film Festival’s Motion Pictures Film Series is proud to present the Vancouver premiere of P. David Ebersole’s Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel. On the 20th Anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s seminal record Nevermind, comes this remarkable insider portrait of the grunge music scene.
While Courtney Love may have received the lion’s share of attention, the real driving force behind’s Hole ferocious roar was drummer Patty Schemel. A close friend of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Patty’s never-before-witnessed home movies, and back stage footage, captured on her own Hi-8 camera, chart the course of a legendary chapter in American music history with remarkable access and intimacy.
Beginning with Patty’s early career, through the salad days of Hole's 1995 tour for Live Through This, when band members Eric Erlandson, Melissa Auf Der Maur and Courtney Love lived the prototypical rock star life of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, the film pulls no punches in its depiction of the meteoric rise and fall of the band. But the soul of the film is Patty herself, brutally honest, funny and possessed of a deeply good heart. Despite going as far down, as any human being can go, including years spent on a the street as a crack addict and sometime prostitute, Patty not only lived, but came back with full crackling force.
"Even if you're not a Nirvana or Hole fan, you must see it. It's easily one of the most touching, honest, funny, refreshing and simply badass films of its kind."-- LA Weekly
"It's heartbreaking."– Spin Magazine
The screening will be followed by a Skype interview with director P. David Ebersole.
