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I've hung out with enough graphic design nerds to know how tedious their fetish can be to the unconverted, and the options for a documentary about rock posters seemed to be either that kind of geekery or hipster hagiography. "Culture is that thing you shovel out of your window in the evening," interviewee Mike King wisely announces in Died Young, Stayed Pretty; "otherwise, it will drown you." The danger in such a project is obviously that kind of self-valorizing mythology, when your clique's self-evident importance is inaccessible (or just stupid-looking) to outsiders. But Eileen Yaghoobian's documentary is unexpectedly excellent, a bracingly free-form group portrait of people who only recently discovered each other's existence when the founding of GigPosters.com showed isolated artists they weren't just working alone in the dark. I'll have to take Yaghoobian's word for it that eminently quotable interviewees like A ...