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Wilco Film: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart

Produced by Peter Abraham in conjunction with Director Sam Jones, the film was named by Rolling Stone as one of the 40 Greatest Music Films of All Time. As part of the marketing, we created a vibrant online music community and partnered with Apple to release videos clips as the film was being made. It screened in 130 cities theatrically and was accepted to the Los Angeles, London, and Stockholm film festivals.

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I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco - Official Trailer

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40 Greatest Rock Documentaries

FILM REVIEW; How a Band Turned a Crisis Into a Triumph

I am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002)

By DAVE KEHR
Published: July 26, 2002

A music documentary with an unusually strong narrative drive, Sam Jones's "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" follows the Chicago-based rock band Wilco through the recording of its critically acclaimed fourth album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." The group's style, at once infectious and alienating, is an imaginative blend of country music twanginess and aggressive industrial noise.