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Bookmark this pageThe Target Shoots First (1999)
Director: Christopher Wilcha
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From Time Out Film Guide
Needing cash to pay the rent, 22-year-old Wilcha, an assistant product manager (music marketing), took his camcorder (a graduation present) into Columbia House, the biggest music mail-order firm in the US, and emerged with the raw materials - footage and experience - for this home video essay on corporate office culture and the mainstream assimilation of rebel culture. The wayward trajectory of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain's time in the public eye provide a backbone to the diary story - it was Nirvana's appeal to the alienated that Wilcha was brought in to harness. There's little here that comes as a surprise, and more analytical depth would have helped the film, but as personal testimony, it's sympathetic and honest.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Christopher Wilcha
Producer: Christopher Wilcha
Cast: Christopher Wilcha, Rick Hunt, John S Wilcha, Steven Tyler, David Hasselhoff full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 70 mins
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