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Courtney Love has never been shy when it comes to sharing her opinions about other people. Going all the way back to the early Nineties, the Hole singer has generated headlines by publicly trashing rock musicians, pop singers, movie stars, and even members of her own family. It’s a level of brutal candor you rarely see with public figures, but as Courtney Love told Rolling Stone in 1994, she simply doesn’t care what others think about her. “If people try to put me in the crazy box–’crazy fucking Courtney’–go ahead,...

A cherubic blond toddler is shown in Super 8 film: playing on a lawn, sitting on his parents' laps, celebrating birthdays. He's a lovely child and clearly adored. It's easy to imagine his future as, essentially, peaceful and stable, full of strong connections—and very hard to imagine what actually happened: that this babe in arms, Kurt Cobain, grew up to be a tormented artist who would take his own life at age 27.

Some of these images, however -- presented in a powerful, sensitive, and gorgeously rendered new documentary, Montage of Heck, about the life of the Nirvana frontman -- convey qualities that remained in the singer's life to the day he died. He was adored. And he fostered a sense of connection among millions of fans around the world, though he was, tragically, unable to feel secure in their embrace.

The project began when Cobain's widow, singer/actress Courtney Love,...