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List Price: $12.95 | | Label: Fox Lorber
Salesrank: 63130
Released: September 28, 1999 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Watching a Nick Broomfield documentary (Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam) makes one not just want to shower, but to scrub oneself raw like Meryl Streep did in Silkwood. Going where even the tabloids fear to tread, the controversial Kurt & Courtney could also be called Courtney and Me. Investigating the apparent suicide of grunge icon Cobain, Broomfield runs into a formidable obstacle, namely Cobain's widow, Courtney Love. She blocked permission for him to use any of Cobain's music and ultimately got the film yanked from the Sundance Film Festival. Can't really blame her, as Broomfield follows the lead of a motley crew of conspiracy theorists, grudge-carrying former boyfriends, and estranged parents who suggest that Cobain was actually murdered at Love's behest. For those who watched bemused as Love reinvented herself as a Hollywood glamour girl, this is luridly entertaining stuff--albeit suspect. How much stock to put in S&M rocker El Duce (where does Bloomfield find these people?), who claims to have been offered money by Love to kill Cobain, and then offers to tell more if Broomfield will buy him a beer? Broomfield paints a much more sympathetic portrait of Cobain. In the film's most touching moment, an aunt plays a tape of a 2-year-old Cobain singing. "He's a prettly loud little guy," she says. These scenes will be nirvana for Cobain fans. --Donald Liebenson
Kurt and Courtney Reviews:
I am left wondering still ... 
2009-12-05 - I am not a native of the Seattle area, but years ago I used to go out with a guy who was who assured me that everyone in Seattle thinks that Kurt Cobain was murdered. This is hard to swallow for me still, even all these years later. The evidence presented here is rather questionable to stay the least, but it obviously will still linger. Why? Because we simply don't know what happened to him in those last few days.
This documentary is done fairly well, as it has a very DIY quality about it. The people interviewed are, quite honestly, not reliable, at least to me. They are a bunch of burned out losers, rather trashy people. But then again, Kurt was, we later realized, one of them too. This is all about trashing Courtney. At the time, I was (and still am) a Nirvana fan who wouldn't believe that Kurt was anything but the artist he was. He was many things to all of us, who married Courtney, the source of all of their problems seemed to stem from her. The documentary interviews Courtney's estranged father (who she has not spoken to in years), who has made several attempts to launch his own failed fame attempts through her. Apples don't fall far from the tree, as it seems. An ex boyfriend is interviewed, who accuses Courtney of attempting to achieve fame through him like she would Kurt many years later, says Courtney was just using him as well. It's well known that Courtney was a stripper and a groupie for many bands long before she formed Hole, but she didn't want to acknowledge this as she was attempting to launch her acting career in the late 90s (see the Good Morning America interview nearly thwarted in the beginning).
It's now many years later. Courtney has since abandoned that clean image and went back to her old ways, has had her face pulled taut thanks to many plastic surgeries, and now the only media that pays much attention to her is the tabloid media and we really don't care anymore. But, did she murder him or at least drive him to suicide? I think I would certainly consider hurting myself as well if I had to live with her. But, the people that are interviewed (especially that weird scumbag "El Duche") are not the most reliable of sources. Kurt should rest in peace, but this will never die.
I didn't know what to think 
2009-08-09 - Pursuing a theory that Courtney Love murdered Kurt Cobain, this Brit filmmaker digs up some strange dudes like El Duce, who says he was offered $50k by Love to whack Cobain. The voice-over narration is a bit smarmy, and the manipulation through editing is obvious to anyone with a sophistication about journalism. I'm not sure if the theory is true, but Love was never charged. She is no longer much heard from, however. Given that she was due to be divorced and lose out on millions, it's possible she could have murdered Cobain. More likely is that she drove him to it.
Wow I never knew 
2008-10-29 - I like most of America would like to believe that Kurt Cobain did not take his own life and after watching this movie I totally agree. If he did commit suicide, he was drivin to it by the nagging thing he was married too. I don't know why someone would bother wiping finger prints off of the shotgun and bullets if they were committing suicide. Also something that really doesn't add up to me is the fact that he had three times the lethal dose of heroin in his system but yet he was able to pull the syringe out of his arm and put all of his parphanalia away. I really believe that someone was with him even though I don't like conspiracy theory's this one made me really think and the more I think about it the more I can't stand Courney Love for taking him away from us for her own greed.
Great Movie 
2008-03-11 - I am a huge fan of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. This is a great doc. type of movie, if your like me and love Kurt Cobain, then you'll def. fall in love with this film. I've watched it about 4 times so far.
" I SWEAR I DONT HAVE A GUN " YOU LIED KURT
2007-11-18 - Really interesting.The filmmaker seems to interview every loser that crawled out from beneath a rock in Washington state.When word circulated that there might be some money to be made for them telling there stories of Kurt Cobain.You really have to see this film to appreciate just how bizarre people are and can be, not to mention Greedy.As a big fan of NIRVANA and Kurt Cobain, I really found myself getting pissed off at The bottom feeders,who are still trying to make a buck off Kurt Cobain.I never thought it was possible, but I really understand why Courtney Love is the way she is.Her father has to be one of the most wretched men I have ever had the displeasure to listen to.I felt like reaching through the TV screen and grabbing this sack of sh**t and screaming into his face ( THAT'S YOUR DAUGHTER YOU FREAK,DO YOU THINK THIS IS HOW A NORMAL LOVING FATHER BEHAVES?) I gained some real insight into why Kurt did what he did from watching this film.If these were the type of friends and loved ones he had around him, he must have felt like the loneliest young man in the world.A wife that took full advantage of him being an emotional cripple, friends that dint seem to care if he lived or died, just as long as the cash and China kept a coming.The interview with what was declared as Kurt Cobains best friend was interesting and sad at the same time.Do these people seem strange to most of us? well yes they do. But just because there strange and grubby does not mean all that comes from out of there mouthes is lies, nor for that matter the truth.Another interesting point to me was the tidbit( if true) about El Duce,being offered 50,00 dollars to kill Kurt, by Love.And again I say if true and that's a big if true. Interesting point two was that El Duce apparently passed a polygraph about the incident.I would like to hear more about that polygraph, like who administered it, where and when did it take place, like I said previously, lots of if it's true.And Not so Love can be put on trial for some silly murder for hire conspiracy theory. But rather just to show, how little she really cared about Kurt.I believe if the El Duce story is true.Love let her true feelings slip on just how she felt about her new Husband and there relationship, in a drunk or doped up state. I do not believe for one moment that Courtney Love killed or had Kurt killed or wanted him killed by El Duche, it was simply " En Vino Veritas".Oh she was involved in his death all right, by the simple fact she dint love him or care about him past his check book and his fame and how she could promote her own career.I hate to believe this about any human being, but I have no problem excepting that she might have even egged him on to kill himself.Kurt cobain was an amazing artist, fantastic song writer and musician , but sadly also suffered from sever depression, drug abuse,a loveless relationship ,non existent home life and emotionally distant parents.Also keep this fact in mind, Cobain was the third member of his family to commit Suicide, so it was in his Blood.Another intresting point brought up in the film was about Kurts home life or lack of it.Kurt stayed with his, ex principles family for quite awhile, and in the whole time that Kurt was with this family, there was never one attempt by Kurts parents to contact the man that had taken there Son in. I am sorry but that speaks volumes to me, about the relationship that Kurts parents had with there child.Kurt Cobains Personal and family life was just a complete Train wreck. what I really gained from this film was not information about some Looney murder for hire conspiracy ,but rather about Kurt Cobains true killers Emotional isolation and the people around him that dint care or even try to offer him a hand out of the dark emotional swamp he was fast sinking into.
REST IN PEACE KURT APRIL 5 1994
