mbventuri One fight here and another one there. Creative/Ego arguments within the band. Some well shot concert appearances (that are tedious if you don't appreciate the music). And that's pretty much it. If you don't like Wilco there is not much to see here. The director does his job well but since the band's creative process to release an album is so shallow, it is hard to keep up with the film. There is not much character study with the exception of some clashes between Jeff, the vocalist, and Jay in the beginning of the film. This doc is only worth watching for its cinematography and ironic industry turns when the album is ready to be released.

landoinchina Firstly I confess I am a huge Wilco fan and might be a little biased based on that! I've seen a few documentaries that follow around a band and try to capture something worthy of a feature-length documentary(radiohead's documentary 'meeting people is easy' for one example) and I'm always disappointed at how little band access they seem to have. This time, I didn't have that feeling at all. I think that Jeff Tweedy and the rest of wilco were really open and let us into their world. The story is told in such a way that you don't even realize that there is a story for the first thirty minutes or so. I like that. I don't think the story of wilco's best album could have been told any other way. If you hate the record industry, if you love great music, if you like a documentary filmmaker who knows how to keep his subject and not himself as the focus of his film (Michael Moore take note!) Then this is the film for you. It feature some amazing wilco concert footage that will make you fall in love with the band if you aren't already!

askmike-info A film which is all about the best album of 2002, Sam Jones tells the story of the making of the Wilco album `Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'. Jones had no idea that in the making of this film, Wilco would fire a band member, be dropped by the record label, spend the next year looking for a new label (the joy of this story is that both label were owned by AOL-Time Warner, who essentially paid Wilco for the same album twice), and make one of the greatest albums of the last 3 years. But that's the beauty of this documentary: what begins as a simple story keeps getting tangled up to form one of the best rockumentaries ever made.

gonzomovies Keep in mind that I'm a HUGE fan of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot... I just loved this documentary! The music was, of course, incredible, and the depth of this story made it worthy of being put onto film. It's possible that it's biased against Jay Bennett, but that makes the film even more interesting. I hope this comes out on DVD faster than most documentaries tend to. A+. 10 out of 10. Thumbs Up. 5 out of 5 Stars.