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"   The poster for Pearl Jam Twenty.  Director Jonathan Demme captured the essence of Neil Young in Heart of Gold and Martin Scorsese made No Direction Home about `the Bob Dylan experience.&amp;#039; Now artists of the 90s are getting their turn to be immortalized by famed directors (ahem, grown up fanboys). First up, Almost Famous director and rock journalist Cameron Crowe has pulled from a number of sources\u2014collecting over 30,000 hours of footage\u2014to make an emotional scrapbook dedicated to Pearl Jam. The film gives audiences an inside look at their twenty years together. &amp;quot;I wanted to get across a feeling of what it was like, what it would be like, to be inside the band, as oppose to outside the band looking in,&amp;quot; Crowe says. Crowe moved to Seattle in the 90s to write the screenplay Singles and befriended members of Pearl Jam during the band&amp;#039;s infancy. Having been a Rolling Stone contributor and editor, Crowe recognized the Emerald City&amp;#039;s scene as the potential hotbed for America&amp;#039;s next wave in music. Fast-forward twenty years to Tuesday&amp;#039;s Los Angeles premiere of Crowe&amp;#039;s rock-doc, Pearl Jam Twenty, and it&amp;#039;s no surprise the film attracted a crowd of 90&amp;#039;s time-capsule characters in flannel shirts with disheveled hair. Though the audience stopped short of erupting into a mosh pit, the emotional spirit of the iconic music made if hard not to jump to your feet. &amp;quot;I feel like I&amp;#039;ve just been through a concert,&amp;quot; says lead guitarist Mike McCready, &amp;quot;you know, without sweating.&amp;quot; Crowe adds, &amp;quot;that was kind of my guiding light in making the movie with the guys. If we can make you feel the way a Pearl Jam record or concert makes you feel, then we&amp;#039;re in good shape.&amp;quot; The film opens tomorrow\u2014and will only be in theaters for a week\u2014so here are our top five reasons to go see it: 1. Most musicians remain mum on the meaning of their lyrics, and there&amp;#039;s no shortage of questionable Pearl Jam lyrics. In the documentary, Eddie Vedder talks about his father and the lyrics for &amp;quot;Alive,&amp;quot; and also reveals the student that inspired &amp;quot;Jeremy&amp;quot; and the woman who still haunts Vedder in the verses of &amp;quot;Black.&amp;quot; 2. Vedder wears a bra. (And the bra belong to D&amp;#039;arcy Wretzky of The Smashing Pumpkins.) 3. It&amp;#039;s the first time you&amp;#039;ll hear Vedder&amp;#039;s original demo tape and watch the band&amp;#039;s first concert (they&amp;#039;d only known each other for six days)\u2014unless of course you were there, in which case you will probably go see this movie anyway. 4. Vedder climbs 40 feet of stage, religiously. Unless you&amp;#039;ve been to every Pearl Jam concert you&amp;#039;ve probably missed the death defying stunts Vedder pulls on stage. Luckily, thanks to footage from over 20 different filmmakers, you can catch it on screen. 5. Kurt Cobain and Vedder slow dance backstage at the VMAs. Since the media was obsessed with a Pearl Jam-Nirvana feud Crowe calls this footage &amp;quot;the Holy Grail.&amp;quot; The director says, &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just such a human moment. It&amp;#039;s what happens outside the glare of the spotlight...Here was this moment below the stage while Eric Clapton is playing &amp;quot;Tears in Heaven&amp;quot; that Kurt and Eddie got to be alone and express themselves as people. The fact that it&amp;#039;s on film is amazing.&amp;quot; Pearl Jam Twenty opens in select theaters tomorrow. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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