Kurt & Courtney

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.

Broomfield wanted to make a doc about Kurt Cobain's life. This issues raised in this doc are not whether or not Courtney Love is a murderer, but that fact that she intervened when she heard that a documentary was being made on Kurt's life, to the point where his Aunt Mary was not permitted to share even the earliest recording sessions when Kurt was just a teenager. Courtney threatened and cajoled via her lawyers until MTV put pressure on the film maker's financial backers to pull out of the project.Courtney Love is buddies with the head of the ACLU so of course she got to present an award at their special ceremony. She would have had absolutely NO contact with or rubbed elbows with the wealthy in Hollywood or elsewhere were it not for Kurt's money.What does Courtney have to be paranoid about? If she truly has nothing to hide then why refuse interviews, why prevent even Kurt's family from sharing early music sessions recorded at home long before he ever met her and that have no connection to Nirvana? Why squelch the release of this film at the Sundance Film Festival?"Methinks thou protesteth too much." In my opinion, Love is a talentless leech, a narcissistic monster who has a history of violent assaults to get her way and is certainly capable of arranging murder for profit. The recent SPD announcement that Kurt's death was suicide is just more of Courtney Love's propaganda: If the SPD ever went back into the case and did a proper investigation, a lot of heads would roll. She had them in her pocket and played the political game well.My conclusion is that Kurt was murdered. Don't know who did it but I wouldn't be surprised if Courtney was at the center of the arrangements.

I have read all I could about Kurt Cobain and the imfamaous Courtney Love because my disabled son is obsessed with Nirvana. He is developmentally delayed but loves grudge and Kurt;s music. That said, I have also never believed that he killed himself. I mean, he loved- absolutely adored Francis Bean, their baby daughter, and I just can't see him intentionally taking his life and leaving her defenseless with her Mother Courtney Love. I think Courtney is a crazy woman with serious mental issues, and was never a fit mother or even a fit human being. I believe the Washington Police department botched their investigation of his death, and I also believe Courtney either killed Kurt herself or had it done and made it look like suicide. Her personality fits that sick ticket 100 fold ! Good viewing and helpful for those of us who actually still care about what really happened to poor Kurt !

It has good insight on Kurt's childhood and show's that he wouldn't really kill himself. But no Nirvana music because Courtney love wouldn't allow them to.use it in the documentary.

I gave it 4 stars for holding my attention throughout. I have also seen soaked in bleach. In my gut after watching both films i do not believe Kurt committed suicide. Could i be wrong, sure. But i truly believe that Courtney was involved with his death. Way more evidence that he didn't kill himself than evidence that he did. Also, that el duce guy messed up and said Allen (talking about Allen wrench who is most likely the person who killed Kurt) el duce mysteriously died shortly after his interview in this movie. I heard that Allen his best friend came over and took him out by the train tracks and shot him and made it look like train accident. El duce passed a lie detector about Courtney soliciting him to kill Kurt. Long story short i believe Kurt was murdered. Watch soaked in bleach after this and make your own decision.

I was a little worried at first because the disc came loose during the shipping inside its case, so it slid around in there for who knows how long, and scuffed up the disc pretty significantly. I was mad, but it still played, so I'm happy. Maybe tape your stuff in, so it stays in the case better and avoids scratches.

this is more the story of censorship, financing, coercion of a journalist than of kurt & courtney. starts out with investigating kurt's death and trying to get courtney to do an interview but ends up via threats to funding, legal action etc as being about journalistic censorship which although very worthwhile and interesting it's not what the title suggests and not why i bought the dvd. having read the books who killed kurt cobain and love & death of an icon (by halperin) i was interested in seeing broomfield's (the dvd's journalist) interviews with the people mentioned in these books. it's easy to see how the conspiracy theories came about and how frustrated halperin and his writing partner must have been with all these incredulious witnesses. broomfield doesn't help matters by not being more probing - showing his bias perhaps, and also the diffuculty in making a film in which no-one will give straight answers. there is a very brief unauthorised interview with courtney towards the end but not enough to warrant still calling the film kurt and courtney. perhaps it should have been called something like - kurt and courtney, a lot of people who knew them would like to say something; one journalist's experience of this.

More an exploration of the documentary maker bumbling about not really getting to the right people or not getting the right information out of the ones he has gotten too.

Mediocre documentary which lacked any real substance. Still watchable but certainly not a must buy. Check out nick broomfield's documentaries on Aileen Wuornos (i think there are two) and his documentary on tupac and biggie (called biggie and tupac) They certainly are a great watch.

great quality

excellent