Now it's Courtney Love's turn to tell her story about her husband Kurt Cobain and she's turning to a medium she knows well, even if it has at times not been to her liking. The Hole musician has approached filmmaker Brett Morgan to do a Cobain documentary, a project that has been under discussion since 2007.
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With today's theatrical opening of the documentary Hit So Hard, Movieline is pleased to revisit its coverage from the film's New York festival premiere on March 28, 2011. — Ed.
Courtney Love shrugged. "We've been in lots of rooms together," she said to a packed theater of moviegoers at the Museum of Modern Art, where Hit So Hard, a documentary about her band Hole (and, more specifically, drummer/addict/survivor Patty Schemel) had its New York premiere Monday night. The crowd laughed, steeped in nostalgia and recognition -- not that Love was talking about this room or this crowd.
An inevitable consequence of the ugly Kim Novak/Artist soundtrack-rape saga had to be that other artists and actors would use the analogy to describe how, unauthorized, new legacies are built or enhanced using elements of their older ones. Right on cue, enter Courtney Love: "Courtney Love believes Kermit the Frog and his gang of Muppet friends 'raped' the memory of her ex-husband Kurt Cobain -- by bastardizing Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' in their 2011 movie ... without her permission. [...] But there's another side to this ... We're told Courtney sold off half of her rights to Kurt's music to a company called Primary Wave Music. And there's more ... Courtney also gave Primary Wave the exclusive right to distribute Nirvana's entire catalog." Mm-hmm. Anyway, isn't this stuff supposed to be limited to awards season? Better luck next year, Courtney. [TMZ]
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