Courtney Love, El Duce, Hank Harrison

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 Me...( read more  read more... )ryl 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

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R, 95 min.

Directed by: Nick Broomfield

Release Date: February 27, 1998

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DVD Release Date: April 10, 2001

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  • Gx7
    February 24, 2008
    Hole - Dying Lyrics

    You see the cripple dance
    Pay your money, baby
    Now's your chance
    Eyes like cyanide

    I am so dumb
    Just beam me up
    I've had it all forever
    I've had enough

    Remember, you promised me
    I'm dying, I'm dying, please
    I want to, I need to be
    Under your skin

    Our love is quicksand
    So easy to drown
    They steal the gravity, yeah
    From moving ground

    Remember, you promised me
    I'm dying, I'm dying, please
    I want to, I need to be
    Under your skin

    And now I understand
    You leave with everything
    You leave with everything I am
    Withering

    And now I know that love is dead
    You've come to bury me
    There's nothing left here to pretend
    Anything

    Remember, you promised me
    I'm dying, I'm dying, please
    I want to, I need to be
    Under your skin

    I'm dying, I'm dying, please (3 x's)
  • paulkozlovtr
    April 22, 2007
    COurtney killed him!
  • UsuguraiAsaHibikuSayonara
    January 2, 2007
    honestly, if you watch it closely, you'll notice theres a big mistake!

    big big BIG mistake!

    theres no way that the guy who injected '1.52mg of heroin into his vein' would have been able to stay concience for that long!

    duh!

    maybe it's cuz he took morphine? and cuz he swallowed them?
  • paulkozlovtr
    December 24, 2006
    nirvana is a awesome band R.I.P Kurt Cobain

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