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Nick Broomfield tries to clarify that absurd theory that says that Kurt Cobain was murdered. No one would actually believe that Kurt was killed because it is quite clear that his addiction and his depression killed him.

Anyway, Broomfield lets everyone to make their point, all those that defend the conspiration theory. But let me tell you, some of them, just like Courtney Love's father or that grotesque guy called The Duce are not reliable sources precisely.

Maybe Nick goes too far accusing Courtney. I mean, she's not Mother Theresa, but she isn't the root of all evil either. She's nothing but an arrogant and eccentric rockstar... just like most of people there in Hollywood.

Otherwise, "Who killed Kurt...?" has valious moments for all the fans of Kurt: early recordings, interviews with some of his relatives and childhood friends...

*My rate: 6/10

Those looking for definitive answers about the death of Cobain won't find them here. But for anyone interested in the process of news gathering, you will find that here in abundance.

The movie is really about information sources -- who can you trust and who's full of crap? Unfortunately for Courtney, her "no comment" doesn't look good here, especially when the director confronts her (in a scene that harkens to "Roger and Me"). "Kurt and Courtney" may not resolve all the questions about the sad life and death of Kurt Cobain, but it makes you think hard about whether these questions could possibly be answered.

I thought this was a very brave, strong documentary. It doesn´t say either that Courtney is guiltly or not guilty. It just documents like a documentary is supposed to. It paints a picture of a very grim underworld of psychological terror and drug abuse. I do think it lacks compassion for Courtney though (maybe I´m wrong about this) - I just think Broomsfield lacks compassion for the psychological problems Courtney must be experiencing because of her childhood, drug abuse and problems with her father. Such a person should not be critized. She should be supported and helped and loved. In a way, Broomsfield does that in a kind of strange way. Anyway, what could he do? How do you protect a man from himself? like one of Elvis´ bodyguards says. Courtney Love should definitely be protected from herself.

Is it objective? No. Is it informative? Yes. Is is accurate? Only as accurate as those talked to. Is it an interesting film? Without a doubt.

This should have been called "Trying To Make 'Kurt & Courtney", because he never succeeds in making a decent look at their relationship but rather an intriguing look at his struggle to get the whole thing off the ground. He ran into a lot of trouble via Courtney Love and of course threw in his feelings toward her quite obviously in the film.

Fans of Kurt may respect it, fans of Courtney are likely to despise it. I admit I am more a fan of Kurt than I could ever be of Courtney, he just seems a hell of a lot more real to me and she has scared me, long before this film made, with all the image make-overs and lame self-promoting publicity stunts. So I had no problem watching her get ripped into in this documentary. But a warning to hardcore HOLE fans, you may get extremely frustrated!

Like it or hate it, it won't bore you!

I went into this wondering what I was gonna see. I chose not to watch this for years just for the simple fact that the conspiracy theory hung so large over it. To my surprise Nick Broomfield just goes through this doc with him and a mic and talks to people Kurt knew. He doesn't believe the conspiracy theory he just wants to explore the idea of it. You have to remember that when this was made it was only 3 years after his death so it was still a fresh topic.

I've been a fan of this band since its inception...so say 20 years. I've read everything that needs to be read about it and I can say for certainty that this was no murder for hire and or a conspiracy to kill Kurt Cobain. This was a sad tale of a guy from a broken lower middle class home who happen to have some "issues" and his pressure release was his music. If you don't believe this then rewind this movie and watch everyone the director talks to. I mean with the exception of Kurt's first girlfriend the rest were obvious dope addicts. So if this doesn't give you an idea of the friends he hung out with then I'm writing this to the wrong crowd. This guy was no straight lace buttoned down rock star. He had a bad marriage to another drug addict, he hated fame and drugs were getting the best of him. Pile that on top of the issues he already had and..well...you know the end result.

I don't believe that Courtney Love had anything to do with this. I mean I believe some of the things that were said in this doc about her and what she might of said but to me she's a loud mouth more than anything else. Most normally don't go ahead with what they talk/threaten. If you need proof of this...look at her life now. Tragedy.

This doc has more "rare" footage than any others I've seen on this topic. More friends and an actual family member interview. It was exciting to see and hear.

If you want closure on this subject, read "Heavier than Heaven" and watch this doc...I think your conclusion will be the same as mine.

Nick Broomfield does a decent job trying to be unbiased about Kurt Cobain and Courtney. He seems to have a hard time trying to find people to interview for this piece. He seems to be unsure about all the conspiracies surrounding the situation but seems to change how he feels towards the end...I enjoyed it, worth the watch!

One night that I couldn't sleep I turn on the TV and I came across this documentary and watch until the end and I have to say I was very shocked, I mean what more need the system to -pu Courtney Love behind bars. After watching this I was convinced that it was impossible for him to comet suicide just because, he was to drugged to do it. The justice just doesn't exists, how after all this proves shes still free, Courtney Love is a drug addict psycho that kill his husband, but shes famous and wealthy, and she owe all she have to Kurt.

Coutney Love kill Kurt Cobain, if you don't believe me, watch this documentary.

Not being particularly interested in either Kurt or Courtney, I was surprised how director Nick Broomfield managed to attract me to his film. His unique style gets us involved with the story that no one really knows where it's going. Not even the director himself. This may prove frustrating to those who have become accustomed to polished and hollywoodized type of film making, or those who are looking for a clear "angle". To me however, it was a wonderful gallery of many slices of real life: from director's own challenges to one of the best documentary film endings I've ever seen.

Hats off to Nick Broomfield for his uncompromising style and bravery.

An interesting documentary that probes the lives of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Broomfield manages to dig some oddballs out of the woodwork, which is fascinating. But a couple of token reliable sources would've lent the film credibility. The film seems to build up to a confrontation with THE Courtney Love, but when he finally confronts her, his questions are rather tame and anti-climatic.

This 'documentary' made me angry. I didn't bother seeing it when it came out as it got such bad reviews. I saw it on tv a coupla weeks ago and wasn't expecting much but got even less. I give it minus infinity out of 10. The moment Dick Broomfield appeared on screen, I wanted to punch him, and I'm not a violent person. I would say he was slimy, but that kind of implies deviousness and he's not intellegent enough to be devious. What was the point of this 'documentary'? Huh Dick? You wanted to make an easy buck out of the Kurt/Courtney story without knowing anything about anything or having any intellegent questions, any new info (or any info at all), any correct info, or any personal scope or objective whatsoever.

Please excuse my rantings, but it is all too fresh in my memory. To give a few examples of why u don't want to see this, here's what some of the scenes are like:

* 2 minutes of road, shot from inside a car driving to KC's old house, to a background tape of some guy K used to know's current band. When he gets to the house he says 'This is Kurts' old house' and drives off again. We get no background info or commentry during these overlong shots. It is a just a house. It is not interesting.

*Dick walks into a lottery state building that KC used to live OPPOSITE, for godsake. The woman at front desk says 'get out' and calls security. End scene. What were they gonna ask these people anyway? How could he get away with putting this kinda stuff in the film? Did they forget to edit it? Oh, hang on, if they edited out the bad bits, it wouldn't even exist.

*A scene of Dick meeting with 'stalkerazzi' to try and get a glimpe of CL. They do not get to talk to her, she walks past, and you see a shot of them fidgeting like pathetic school boys saying 'You ask her', 'No, you' etc. They are pathetic beyond words.

*The only intellegable interviewee is one of KC's aunts, but she irritated me too much. CL's dad is a d***, who (can u believe) actually implies she could have had something to do with plotting to murder KC. He also uses the opportunity to plug his book. All others willing to talk were mostly people who knew the couple vaguely, or knew someone who knew them vaguely..

The only scene I liked, was of Dick on the phone to his sponsers, telling him they were cutting of his funding. Haha.

Do not watch unless you want to make yourself really angry

I heard somewhere that Courtney Love tried like the dickens to get this little documentary banned. If there is no truth to it, why would she care so much? Makes you think...

Nick Bloomfield interviews people a courtroom wouldn't consider reliable witnesses- El Duce, for one- a singer who was one bizarre addict himself. He claims Love offered him $50,000 to kill Cobain. Looking at this guy, you automatically rely on his testimony like your local weather report. Still, it is very interesting that weeks after this interview, El Duce was found dead on the railroad tracks by his home. An investigor who was at Cobain's "suicide" scene claims Cobain had way too much heroin in his system to be coherent enough to pull a trigger on himself with any accuracy. Cobain's Aunt claims the whole conspiracy theory is a load of bunk, and she feels Kurt had suicidal tendencies as well as addictions. Yet most of the people interviewed agree that Courtney was a vindictive slag, jealous of Cobain's success and tried to hitch her wagon to Nirvana's rising star (memories of Courtney and Kurt on the cover of the now defunked "Sassy" magazine, with Courtney trying to portray herself has the Nancy Spungen of the '90's comes to mind). I've never been a big Love or "Hole" fan, mainly because I don't think Love is that talented a musician or singer. I feel she has what they call "delusions of grandure", which is why this documentary, for as shaky as the evidence presented is, makes me wonder if it isn't the naked truth.

Kurt and Courtney tells the sad story of the suicide of Kurdt Cobain in 1994. From the word go the film seems to take a negative stance on Cobain's easy-to-hate widow Courtney Love. The film is only partially informative in that most of the people interviewed are either biased against Love, or barely know Kurdt Cobain, or both. Where are interviews with members of Nirvana? His mother and father? His sister? Love herself? The only interviewee that seems realistically affected by this is with Kurt's aunt. Possibly if the filmmaker had gotten a more balanced view of the events leading up to Cobain's death, he wouldn't have had the project crushed and pressured to death by love. still it's worth a view if you like nirvana. And you have to laugh at all the hangers on trying to milk fifteen minutes of fame from a dead rock icon.

Thus is basically, a guy and his camcorder tooling around Seattle and Aberdeen interviewing people who were either irrelevant or had a personal bias against Courtney Love. Apparently he took Ms. Love's resistance to his project very personally, because instead of finding other sources, such as interviewing former Nirvana bandmates Chris Novoselic and David Grohl, or even Chad Channing and Jason Everman who were with the group in its formative years. Most people he talked to barely new Kurt. Instead he focused on portraying Courtney Love as the villain, tossing out wild accusations about her with almost virtually no evidence (or effort), and the testimony of the clearly biased or the unreliable.

I can't believe this "documentary" was funded, distributed, or worst of all watched by me. This movie was billed as the film Courtney Love doesn't want you to see, maybe she's a film critic.

Nick Broomfield is a great documentary filmmaker - his pics on Heidi Fleiss & Aileen Wuoronos are especially effective. He was criticized for this film being too one-sided and featuring himself too much. But, as you watch the film, you realize he really had no choice because, everyone (especially people who are pro-Courtney) is terrified of suffering the wrath of Courtney (who is, no matter who you hear from, obviously a violent psychotic) if they speak out in Nick's film. This leaves only people with nothing to lose (addicts, losers, and disgruntled ex-employees) to interview. Thus, most of the footage consists of Broomfield desperately trying to glean ANY information on his chosen subject. What we learn we learn by reading between the lines. For instance, the very fact that Love put pressure on his financers from the very beginning of his filming speaks volumes. If Broomfield didn't set out to lambast her at the start, she certainly helped change his mind quickly. The film does little to clear up the decidedly murky circumstances of Cobain's death (though the guy seemed to be a walking suicidal time-bomb). What it does prove is that Love basically got her claws into Kurt, chewed him up, spit him out, and got his millions - all in a span of about three years! And it's all worth it to see Broomfield call an auditorium full of hypocrites - the ACLU - on the carpet for allowing Love, who regularly makes death threats to journalists, to be their spokesperson for free speech.

If Courtney was gonna kill him, she would have left him on the floor in Rome overdosing on rohypnol. And there definitely wouldn't have been any heroin left over if she had used the shotgun.

Feels like Kurt parents did not give two poos about him or his aunt really. Like they would shoo him away. But that drive him deeper into art. Art is pain. Ask lanegan and Layne. Good doc. El duche cracks me up!

Sleazy, silly, typically lowbrow documentary from typically lowbrow documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield probes Kurt Cobain's suicide (murder?) and widow Courtney Love's subsequent rise to rock/Hollywood stardom. Never less than fascinating, but similar to flipping through a National Enquirer. The ink stays on your fingers and afterward all you can think about is washing it off. Broomfield is a scuzzy English tabloid documentarian obsessed with white-trash America. His best trait is his aggressive interview technique, and the way his films seem to descend on a spiral. As he neglects to get the "truth" from his interview subjects he returns to them again and again, his questions and manner growing more and more relentless. It's fun to watch but also annoying and unnerving. Like watching someone slowly drill a hole through metal. I hope I'm never subjected to his process.

Culturally and geographically, this film is like looking at a graveyard. The grunge scene (Seattle in particular) seems to have died along with Cobain. What a thriving mecca it once was. The brief concert clips of Seattle bands post-Nirvana are just depressing. At one point the lead singer in some Nirvana wannabe group attacks a fan with his microphone and screams obsceneties at him and it comes off as pathetic and listless. What a boring, dried-up scene Seattle has become. And who are these losers Broomfield trots out in front of his camera. Someone named "Ami" who says she had the same dealer as Cobain and Love and calls Love a harpy. Maybe she is but who cares. Who in the world IS this Ami and why are we listening to her. She could be lying about knowing them. Later, there's someone else (they don't even say her name) who says she worked for Cobain and Love as a nanny for a month. The woman looks so wasted on drugs if Cobain and Love were dumb enough to hire her as a nanny they deserved to be slandered in a documentary.

The absurdity reaches its nadir with the introduction of "El Duce", and truly a sadder specimen you will not likely see outside of a mental hospital or jail. I flat out refuse to believe anyone would offer this guy 50 grand to snuff anyone because he looks like he could hardly make it to the mailbox. The only really reliable people are Love's father (who's just plain odd), Cobain's former friend and the guy who supplied him with the shotgun (he's so doped up he can't follow Broomfield's questions) and Cobain's aunt (who's the only sane person in the entire film).

Amazingly, the one who ends up looking good is Love. This was during one of her "together" periods so she looks great in the few clips we see of her. Certainly better than anyone else in the movie. And a lot more coherent (with the exception of her scary voice-mail threats).

A sad movie, finally. Doubtful that Love killed him. Too much speculation. A straight documentary on Cobain would have been much more interesting. The few clips we get of him are the best things in the film

....waiting to see if Ms Courtney punches out director/interviewer Nick Broomfield. Whether or not there is any truth to the vague rumours that the Queen of Grunge killed the King, Kurt and Courtney is a riveting exercise in docu-propaganda. Broomfield doesn't do a good job of hiding his disdain for Courtney, but neither does anyone else on screen. Father Hank Harrison hates her, ex boyfriends hate her, Kurt's friends think she was the master manipulator...and El Duce (killed one short month after the interview in this film by a passing freight train!!) says she offered him money to kill Kurt. Why? Who knows. The only well adjusted person in this film is Kurt's aunt, and she thinks it was suicide.

Whatever your personal feelings, this is a fascinating film.

Such a huge dissapointment, and a real waste of what could have

been an interesting subject. This feels like it was made for a

school project, lacking direction and focus. Broomfield even says

in his voice over at one point that he doesn't have a "catch" for the

story. It rambles, and only takes shape (and gained its publicity)

after Courtney Love tried to get it stopped. How ironic.

The camerawork is shaky, and the picture surprisingly bad. I have

a tiny DV camera that produces a better picture than this. Why are

there so many shots of cars drving, and people walking up stairs,

and all manner of things that should never have made it out of the

editing room.

A variety of drugged up losers are trawled out to say provocative

things, without anything being substantiatied in the slightest. El

Duce (?) changes his story depending on what Broomfield

prompts him with, and the rest of the interviewers seem like

rejects from Jerry Springer.

So bad.

I won't go on...

Kurt & Courtney (1998)

*** (out of 4)

Nick Broomfield's controversial documentary on the suicide of Kurt Cobain and the conspiracy theories around whether or not Courtney Love had him murdered. This is an incredibly strange documentary that has "witnesses" that no lawyer in the world would put on the stand but at the same time there's no question that the film will keep you glued to what you're watching. It's hard to say how much truth is found in this documentary or if everything here is nothing more that cruel gossip but I must say that it's rather obvious that Broomfield hates Love. There are a lot of problems with this documentary with the main one being Broomfield's attacks on Love at every chance he gets. It's clear he wants to know whether or not Love killed Cobain but I think there are quite a few cheap shots taken at her. The director is constantly saying how he wanted to use certain music but Love wouldn't allow it. Well, duh. Any music rights owner isn't going to let you freely use something so considering this film ran out of backers it's clear that they wouldn't have had the money to buy the music even if they were for sale. There's an episode at the end when the director could have asked her a question but didn't and instead gets on a stage and does it in public. Another cheap shot. With that said, the murder conspiracy is just something hard to wrap your brain around. Even if it was true, the witnesses here are cracked out heroin addicts so it's really hard to take what they say as the truth. You could argue that Kurt and Courtney were a part of this crowd, which I guess would be fair but I do wonder what motive some of these people had. It's clear that Love's father hates his daughter so his motives are certain. Others claim that they're terrified of Love yet they come out and say she murdered Kurt. No matter what your opinion on the truth is, it's hard to take any real evidence out of this documentary.

Director Nick Broomfield makes a feeble attempt to retrace the troubled childhoods of grunge rock stars and one-time married couple Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, but his 'investigative' work uncovering possible murder scenarios in Cobain's shotgun-induced suicide chews up the bulk of this threadbare documentary. Shorn of Nirvana's music due to Love's swift legal action, the film sounds just as hollow as all the inherent melodrama plays out, with Love's estranged biological father, Cobain's aunt, and a bankrupt private investigator Broomfield's only real attractions. There's also a quick, ridiculous interview with pseudo-rocker El Duce, who claims that Love offered him 50 G's to "blow Kurt's head off" (El Duce himself later dies in a mysterious accident--more conspiracy theories!). It's a hapless, hopeless piece of work, with guerrilla filmmaking tactics that make Michael Moore's documentaries look like Scorsese by comparison. NO STARS from ****