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'Soaked in Bleach' Explores Questions around Cobain's Death
Filmmaker Benjamin Statler hopes his new documentary Soaked in Bleach will help reopen the Kurt Cobain case. Meanwhile, Courtney Love and her lawyers are attempting to stop his film from being shown in theaters.
By Kim Masters • • 28m ListenFirst-time director Benjamin Statler knew if he ever made a movie, it would be about one thing: lingering questions surrounding the death of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Now, that movie has come to fruition in the form of the docu-drama Soaked in Bleach, and Courtney Love is not a fan. Statler tells us why he ended up self-financing the film and talks about Love’s attempts to block theaters from showing his film.
Photo: Benjamin Statler, director of Soaked in Bleach, courtesy of MPRM Communications
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In May, director Brett Morgen joined us to talk about his Kurt Cobain documentary, Montage of Heck . Cobain's widow, Courtney Love, had approached Morgen to do the project and gave him access to journals and tapes belonging to Cobain.
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