Metrograph

Irresponsible tabloid sleaze or righteous rabble-rousing exposé? Many things have been said about the films of Broomfield generally, and Kurt & Courtney in particular, but no one has ever called his muckraking documentary about the turbulent beginnings and tragic end of the relationship between Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love “boring.” A plunge into the seedy, dopesick underbelly of the then-still-booming Pacific Northwest rock scene, including a visit with Eldon “El Duce” Hoke, porcine drummer/vocalist of The Mentors, that follows the trails of the various accusations and instigations that cropped up following the discovery of Cobain’s body at 171 Lake Washington Blvd. E in Seattle.

Distributor: Nick Broomfield