Kurt & Courtney

Kurt and Courtney is a 1998 documentary film about Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, made by Nick Broomfield. It is primarily an investigation of the circumstances surrounding Cobain's death; his death has been legally declared to have been suicide but has been alleged by some to have been murder, in some allegations at Love's instigation.

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1998 - Kurt Cobain - Courtney Love - Nick Broomfield - Suicide - Murder

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In one scene in the film, Broomfield interviews controversial musician El Duce, who claims that Courtney Love offered him US$50,000 to kill Kurt Cobain, an offer that he declined. Two days after that interview was filmed, El Duce was killed in a train accident.

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El Duce - US$

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While the initial focus of the film was this alledged 'conspiracy', Courtney Love's refusal to license any of Cobain's music --- to a film that she was aware was accusing her of possible complicity in her husband's death --- led Broomfield to attempt to incorporate her refusal to allow the music, and her unwillingness to speak on camera for him, as "evidence" that Love had something to hide, and also, curiously, to claim that her refusal to work with him meant that she was "censoring" free speech and "censoring" artistic expression.

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