Blown opportunity by a great director to explore the truth behind the final days of rocker Kurt Cobain, or low-key masterpiece as wonderfully blurry as Cobain's lyricism?

Inspired by Cobain's unraveling, director Gus Van Sant's "Last Days" sheds nothing new on the rock icon's life. Instead, it touches down on the alternately hedonistic and graveyard-still two-day death spiral of a fictional Cobain-ish rocker named Blake.

Relentlessly abstract and confounding, "Last Days" will test the patience of even die-hard Nirvana fans. But that doesn't make it any less fascinating. At Doris Duke Theatre, today and Wednesday, 1 and 7:30 p.m. 532-8768.

— Derek Paiva

'CHICKEN' RULES ROOST

"Chicken Little" remained No. 1 with $32 million in its second weekend.

"Zathura: A Space Adventure" was second with $14 million, according to studio estimates. Jennifer Aniston's thriller "Derailed" opened in third with $12.8 million.

50 Cent's semi-autobiographical drama "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" premiered at No. 4 with $12.5 million, though it played in fewer theaters.

Keira Knightley's "Pride & Prejudice" came in at No. 10 with $2.8 million, playing in just 215 theaters.

FINAL WORD

"It's when you're drinking and then you wake up the next morning to find you've downloaded 80 Dolly Parton songs."

Singer Rob Thomas | on "drunk iPoding," as quoted in Cargo magazine