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August 29-September 4, 2002
movie shorts
DIRTY HARRY
(Not reviewed.) A haiku:
Attention you punks,
Dirty Harry's back in town.
Please help make his day.
(Roxy)
FEARDOTCOM
(Not reviewed.) A haiku:
A killer website
uses Flash animation
to bore you to death.
(AMC Andorra; AMC Orleans; UA 69th St.; UA Cheltenham; UA Grant)
I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART
All photographer Sam Jones wanted to do was film Wilco making their next album. Of course, that album became Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and its completion was followed by a spate of record-label and inter-band controversy that has long since passed into rock-geek lore. When Reprise Records rejected the album, obviously Jones had to adjust the focus of his film as a result. And while he does manage to illustrate modern-day industry shenanigans, he's also forced to quickly summarize what by all accounts was a lengthy and arduous gestation period, making sure to get across Yankee's unconventional sound as well as the growing rift between frontman Jeff Tweedy and guitarist Jay Bennett (leading up to the latter's ouster near the end of the film). As enjoyable as the many in-concert segments are, a few should have been excised for more in-studio footage. Plus, a band as seemingly freewheeling as Wilco would have benefited from a more cinéma vérité approach à la Let It Be, rather than what becomes an increasing procession of talking heads. Wilco fans (such as this author) will be entertained, but one can' t help but wonder if this is another example of DVD culture impinging on the actual film. --Michael Pelusi (Ritz at the Bourse)
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