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THE ON SCREEN TITLES DON'T FIT ON THE SCREEN!!!!! DID ANYONE PREVIEW THIS THING?!?!?! JESUS!!!
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
Who's trying to break my heart - Jeff Tweedy or Sam Jones? Either way, the breakage occured. Whether for the explicit portrayal of emotion in Jay Bennett's departure, or for Tweedy's engrossing solo performances, my heart was left in two on the living room floor. From the opening scenes of Tweedy's cigarette smoking belly button to Tony Margherita's heated telephone conversation with Reprise, Jones seizes it all. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is a staggering film, worthy of the emotion it summons. Wilco is a steadily progressing band with a need for freedom of musical expression - something a record label can't rely on for a successful sell. Jones captures the band's broadening horizons as well as the effects of the modern-day music industry on the artists that are Wilco.
Great documentary about Wilco and the ironies of an industry
This fantastic DVD documentary basically shows the Chicago-based band through the process of creating their landmark album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" under the umbrella of Reprise Records (a Time Warner company). You are exposed to some of their internal struggles as a creative unit with clashing egos as well as their exhilarating process by which the build up their songs to later deconstruct them to explore what's possible with them.
The band gets dumped by Reprise when they deliver the finished album, and the second half of the documentary focuses on this process, along with how they come out of the situation essentially unscathed, with a finished album that they were able to take to another label (Nonesuch, another Time Warner company). This part of the film really takes a lot of points home, questioning the time pressures and business considerations involved in the making of an album (or a piece of art, for that matter), and how they essentially go against some of the basic principes of creative work.
As a fan of the band, I found the DVD very insighful. After all, they are people just like you and me, and this documentary shows them (in particular Jeff Tweedy) as a human being with their flaws and good things exposed. Highly recommendable to music fans and label executives alike.
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