Kurt and Courtney

 

Kurt Cobain died seventeen years ago today.

I highly recommend Nick Broomfield's documentary film on the subject of his death, titled "Kurt and Courtney". I won't go into details of the film, except to say that I think it is a brilliant film in so many ways. I have to say that I agree with Broomfield's conclusion of the events: there was definitely something fishy in the circumstances surrounding his death, but everybody who has anything of substance to say on the matter is completely and totally unreliable (sometimes hilariously unreliable, and other times depressingly so). Throughout it all, the presence of the unflappable Broomfield really gives the film a deadpan comic edge amid some ultimately depressing subject matter.

Also, Gus van Sant's 2005 film, Last Days, while certainly not any kind of biopic, is nevertheless great, and makes you think of Kurt Cobain.