Nirvana: Live at the Paramount

Nirvana: Live at the Paramount captures a concert by the band at the Paramount Theatre in their hometown of Seattle, held on Halloween night in 1991, roughly a month after the release of Nevermind. The performance was filmed on 16mm, making it the only known Nirvana show recorded that way, and runs about seventy-one minutes. It is a music documentary rather than a narrative film, so its substance is the set itself and the band on stage.

The group at that point consisted of Kurt Cobain on lead vocals and guitar, Krist Novoselic on bass, and Dave Grohl on drums and backing vocals. Cobain and Grohl are credited with the screenplay, and Mark Racco directed, with John Linson and Jeff Fura producing for DGC Records and Geffen Records. The release was tied to the twentieth anniversary of Nevermind, arriving on September 24, 2011.

Audience response has been strong: on IMDb it holds an 8.5 rating from around 1,300 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 8.1 from a much smaller base of about 47 voters. Both figures point to a concert film that has been well received by viewers, with the larger IMDb sample giving the higher of the two scores.