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Courtney Love, in a still from Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel

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U.K. poster for Hit So Hard: The Life and Near-Death Story of Patty Schemel.

I grill Melissa, Patty and Eric at last night’s Hit So Hard post-screening Q&A in New York. Thanks to all who came! (Photo: Mel Gottshall)

Happy to announce that I’ll be conducting a Q&A with former Hole members Patty Schemel, Eric Erlandson and Melissa Auf der Maur following the 7 p.m. screening of Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel this Saturday (April 14) at the Cinema Village in New York. 

Hope you can make it! Buy your tickets here: tinyurl.com/hitsohardtix

Click here to watch a clip from the forthcoming documentary Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel, in which the former Hole drummer talks about hanging with Kurt, Courtney and Frances Bean.

Kurt Cobain, Frances Bean Cobain and Patty Schemel in 1992. Press photo for the documentary Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel. Excited to see this at MoMA on Monday.

Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel, a documentary on the former Hole drummer, will be screening in New York on Monday, March 28, 6 p.m., at MoMA, and Wednesday, March 30, 9 p.m., at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The screenings are part of the New Directors/New Films fest, which provides this synopsis:

Hit So Hard (2011, 101min)
Director: P. David Ebersole
Country: USA
Ebersole’s rockumentary HIT SO HARD is a pull-no-punches portrait of the hell-and-back life of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love’s band Hole during its peak years. The result is an unprecedented inside look at the one of the Nineties most crucial and controversial groups. Notwithstanding its amazingly candid interviews (Love included), its unflinching accounts of the personal tragedies that plagued the band in its heyday, and a rare look at hardball music-industry politics gives the viewer the lowdown on the recording of Hole’s 1997 record Celebrity Skin.

Meanwhile, the filmmakers are still raising funds for the film at Kickstarter.