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	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Sam Jones: I already kind of answered this, but I will say that the moments backstage on Jeff's solo tour are a pretty dead-on imitation if not homage to some of the moments in "Don't Look Back." The harmonica doesn't hurt either.
		Sam Jones: I know that he didn't feel as warm and fuzzy about it as the rest of the band, but he once said to me "a pro-Wilco movie is an anti-Jay movie," and given the circumstances, I can understand where he is coming from.
		Sam Jones: Well, I had the UT records, and the early Wilco record, but it wasn't until Being There that I was really bowled over by the band.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/liveonline/03/special/entertainment/sp_entertainment_jones040103.htm (3768 words)

	Rolling Stone : Breaking Wilco on Film
		Instead Jones found himself stuck in a year in the life of a band; one which included turnover of two members (drummer Ken Coomer left in January 2001 and guitarist/keyboardist Jay Bennett departed in the summer) and a surprising break with a label that underscores some alarming trends within the record industry.
		Jones sent the band a letter in late 2000, asking if a new project was to begin soon and asking permission to be a fly on the wall during its construction.
		Jones is close to cinching a deal with Plexifilm to put the film in theaters this summer, and he plans to release it on DVD by August or September.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5931805/breaking_wilco_on_film (810 words)

	Sam Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sam Jones (baseball) (1925-1971), known as "Toothpick Sam"
		Sam Jones (military) (born 1820), Confederate commander in U.S. Civil War
		Sam Jones III (born 1983), U.S. actor, most famous for the role of Pete Ross on Smallville (2001)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sam_Jones (188 words)

	More info about the poet: Sam Jones - references bibliography
		Sam Jones (military) (born 1820), Confederate commander in U.S. Civil War; Samuel Jones (Confederate) (1819–1887), Civil War Confederate Major General...
		Sam J. Jones Playgirl centerfold for June 1975.
		Sam Jones baseball stats with batting stats, pitching stats and fielding stats, along with uniform numbers, salaries, quotes, career stats and biographical...
	www.poemhunter.com /sam-jones/resources/poet-125453/page-1 (765 words)

	INTERVIEW: Not Looking Back; Sam Jones And His Wilco Doc "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart"
		Jones, a commercial director and magazine photographer, has long been a music lover (and also a musician whose former band even toured with Weezer).
		Sam Jones: Well, I'm a photographer and that led to commercials, which gave me enough confidence that a moving camera wasn't that different from a still camera.
		Jones: "Don't Look Back" and "Gimme Shelter." And then two that really helped me get my head around the idea of mixing standard documentary form with cinema verite were these CBC documentaries on Leonard Cohen and Glenn Gould.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Jones_Sam_020723.html (1531 words)

	Sam J Jones
		By KAREN E. Sam Jones, a natural brunette, agreed to have his hair dyed for the role but was physically unable to wear the blue contacts.
		Jones was flown to London almost immediately after the interview to begin a gruelling schedule of rehearsals, costume fittings, and daily workouts to prepare him for the many action sequences.
		Although Dino De Laurentiis felt Jones was perfect for the role, the movie magicians tampered with his appearance in an attempt to match the actor to the comic strip.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Dreamworld/8663/flash/samjones_starlog.htm (1642 words)

	Sam Did You Mean sam? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sam Gamgee, a character in The Lord of the Rings.
		Sam (dog), a Chinese crested hairless voted the world's ugliest dog for three years running.
		SAM was also the name of the robot mascot used in advertising the SAM Coupé.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Sam.html (281 words)

	Metroland Online - Night & Day
		When first-time filmmaker Sam Jones, who spends his days photographing the glitteratti for glossy outlets like Vanity Fair, undertook to make a documentary about the band Wilco, he knew he was taking a gamble.
		Jones’ cameras captured the relatively happy period of recording that followed, though tensions grew between principle songwriter Jeff Tweedy and multi-instumentalist Jay Bennett.
		It’s no surprise that with his background as a professional photographer, Jones would be very careful in planning the look of the film, which was shot in fl-and-white.
	www.metroland.net /back_issues/vol_25_no34/night_and_day.html (1077 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie news - I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
		12:06 PM PT Sam Jones became a very lucky filmmaker the day Wilco got dropped from their record label, Reprise (a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner), proving that one man's ruin may be another's fortune.
		Jones wisely decided to stick with the band, following the story until the band, with the completed album in hand, was signed by Nonesuch Records at three times their previous price.
		Jones keeps us from most of the backstage antics -- if there were any -- and the lens tends to be very kind to Tweedy, but as the Chicago Tribune's music reviewer David Fiske says in the film, "This band's story is the music" and in this respect the film doesn't disappoint.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/story/0,1259,---12777,00.html (355 words)

	Filmmaker Magazine \| Summer 2004: HEAVY METAL THERAPY
		So, when Metallica entered rock ’n’ roll counseling while they were making a promo piece on the band, the filmmakers knew that had another documentary epic on their hands.
		These sessions, in which the filmmakers’ cameras sat alongside the band, proved to be one of the great happy accidents of modern filmmaking.
		Filmmaker: But then Elektra was absorbed into Atlantic, people started losing their jobs, and Metallica stepped in to save the day.
	www.filmmakermagazine.com /summer2004/features/heavy_metal.php (2965 words)

	Community Yellow Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jones is a common family name that comes from the term \'Son of John\' but can also be attributed to the name \'Jonah.
		Lewis Jones (Patagonia), one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia
		Jones Fracture, a fracture of the fifth metatarsal of the foot
	www.electronicdevicesiworld.com /wiki3-Catherine_Zeta-Jones (1952 words)

	VH1.com : News : Wilco Documentary Captures Band's Crash, Burn, Return
		Jones captures the excitement, energy and creative spark of a band that's about to record a make-or-break record that the group is already feeling very good about.
		Jones' cameras are there, but the conversation becomes obscured by music as the pair enters into an awkward argument across the room.
		Jones also happened to be around when Margherita got the call from Reprise asking Wilco to either re-record the album or consider themselves dropped.
	www.vh1.com /news/stories/1456255.jhtml (1321 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What it is, simply, is a far-ranging salute to the Jewish experience in all its forms, as interpreted by filmmakers from various points on the globe and brought to audiences by co-presenters
		Filmmaker Sam Jones documents the alt-country/rock band Wilco as they record their newest, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."......
		A dysfunctional suburbanite, who's just been released from a mental hospital, takes a job as a secretary and embarks on a relationship with her boss.......
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/default.asp?issueDate=10/17/2002 (501 words)

	www.delawareonline.com : ENTERTAINMENT : Movie review : I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
		Photographer and first-time filmmaker Sam Jones is trying to change that with his documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart." Shot in grainy, fl-and-white 16 mm film, it's reminiscent of D.A. Pennebaker's "Don't Look Back," which took us behind the scenes on tour with a 23-year-old Bob Dylan in 1965.
		Jones turned on his camera two years ago while Wilco was in such a blissful state, recording their fourth album, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," for Reprise Records, part of AOL Time Warner.
		Jones' camera continues to follow Wilco on tour, and in every city, fans ask the guys when the new album will be out.
	www2.delawareonline.com /entertainment/movies/movie_reviews/revu1061.html (769 words)

	Amazon.com: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - A Film About Wilco: DVD: Jeff Tweedy,John Stirratt,Leroy Bach,Glenn ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jones couldn't have written a more dramatic turn of events when the band presents the album to their label, Reprise, they hate the album and demand changes.
		Jones shot the film in a grainy fl & white that is a nice touch, but it would have been a good idea if he introduced a little color into the film especially in the concert footage.
		Sam Jones is also very particular to show several times the band playing songs in their entirety, during tracking, practicing, and live gigs; Wilco fans will especially appreciate these wonderful glances into the silent charisma of the band.
	www.amazon.com /Am-Trying-Break-Your-Heart/dp/B00008IAMJ (2554 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle > Entertainment
		Although the filmmaker tries to play it safe, that makes it easy for the record company to fall into the role of villain during the movie.
		David Fricke of Rolling Stone, whom Jones said became the conscience of the film, says Reprise’s decision illustrates how record companies are increasingly blind to artistic quality in their quest for profits.
		While it wasn’t the story he was originally interested in telling, Jones said the album’s saga may bring the film a wider audience.
	www.theeagle.com /spotlight/2002articles/072502wilcofilm.htm (735 words)

	Wilco is trying to break your heart
		The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard albums chart, the band’s highest chart position to date, when it was finally released in April.
		In an age where every episode of VH1’s "Behind the Music" shares the same carefully sanitized, thoroughly scripted three-act story arc (band rises to the top, band suffers a tragedy, band comes back from the brink), Jones lucked into a real and moving tale, he was allowed all-access permission to film it.
		The movie’s other strong suit is that the conflicts the musicians faced play out in a series of very real and revealing scenes, so that Jones does not have to rely on talking-head interviews to tell the story.
	www.jimdero.com /News2002/WilcoJuly28.htm (1153 words)

	I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Fortunately for this group of hard-working artists, who have a passion for excellence, creative freedom, and innovation, filmmaker Sam Jones was there to document what they went through as they tried to record "Y-H-F".
		When their work was callously rejected by the label, without any real advice or specific complaint, Jones's camera recorded footage at the scene of a crime against art.
		Jones intended just to document the work of his favorite band when he got busy in July 2000.
	www.tollbooth.org /2002/movies/wilco.html (1324 words)

	Charles Jones Australian Politician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Commonly known as "Charlie", C.K. Jones was born in Newcastle, NSW and was educated at Cooks Hill High School to the equivalent of the seventh grade.
		Charlie Jones was commissioned as a minister with the election of the Whitlam Government in 1972 and served as the Minister for Transport until that government was dismissed on November 11 1975.During this period, Mr Jones attempted to improve the co-ordination of Australia's transport systems.
		Mr Jones proposed a model urban train carriage that could be used in the train systems of the major capitals and also attempted to inaugerate an Inter-state Commission as proposed by Section 101 of the Australian Constitution.
	mydatapages.com /charles_jones_australian_politician.html (4331 words)

	Splendid: Departments: &: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
		In the process, filmmaker Jones, who had approached the band and begun filming long before any of the trouble started, finds himself with the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to capture the creative peak, the partial collapse and the ultimate rise of one of the most respected and influential rock groups active today.
		That Jones was actually present when band manager Tony Margherita received the call with the news that Reprise would not release the album is indicative of the impact and raw emotion the material contains.
		The other members of the group are disciplined in their handling of the presence of Jones and his crew, and it is ultimately this respect and restraint that confirm the precision of the film's representation.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/&/iamtrying.html (801 words)

	Wilco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Filmmaker Sam Jones was along for the ride to document the process, which happened to include a few unexpected surprises.
		Tweedy said that having Jones around to film the documentary provided a comfort level that lead to more honest footage than others could have provided.
		Tweedy revealed that in addition to the new DVD with Jones, the band is poised to go back into the studio this summer.
	www.marqueemag.com /06_05/wilco.html (1338 words)

	Filmmaker's Diary: Alex Fernandez on the PopCanon Documentary
		I actually corresponded with the filmmaker, Sam Jones, a couple of months ago after Ned turned me on to the film's website.
		I was particularly interested in it because his movie, like mine, has to do with a band at a very important time in their lives and is fraught with unexpected drama.
		It seems Sam had merely intended to document the recording of the latest album, not anticipating that while doing so, the band would "let go" two of its members, and their label, Reprise Records, would "let go" of them.
	web.purplefrog.com /~popcanon/video/AlexDiary6.html (680 words)

	Breaking up isn't all that hard to do - smh.com.au
		Tweedy agreed to let filmmaker Sam Jones spend most of 2001 with the band.
		As they drove around Chicago one night discussing the project, with Tweedy playing Jones a demo of the group's upcoming album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (the film's name comes from the opening track), Jones got Tweedy to agree that "you guys don't come in the editing room, you don't tell me I can't shoot something".
		Jones arrived in early 2001 to hear that Wilco had fired drummer Ken Coomer the day before, but he was there - with camera rolling - when Reprise Records called to say that Foxtrot, a melancholic tapestry of spare vocals and ambient folk-pop sounds, wasn't at all what it hoped for.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/12/1041990177717.html (1094 words)

	Collateral damage at the heart of rock'n'roll brilliance - smh.com.au
		When you sit down later in the edit suite or at your computer there always is the chance, maybe even probability, that your "dispassionate" portrait will be coloured by that closeness - revealed as much by what you leave out as what you put in.
		It's a problem familiar to photographer turned filmmaker Sam Jones, who spent more than a year with the Chicago band Wilco as they recorded what would be their fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
		The camera wasn't always rolling but Jones became such a fixture in the corner that it didn't matter in the end as the band simply kept going with their lives.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/16/1050172647015.html (908 words)

	Black Filmmaker
		From first thoughts to finely wrought, elaborate artworks, from the lightest sketch in pencil to bold, gallery-wall installations, the medium is shown as an essential vehicle for creativity.
		Sam Jones (filmmaker) - Samuel Jones is a filmmaker.
		David Sutherland (filmmaker) - David Sutherland (or Sudz Sutherland) is an award-winning filmmaker from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
	co48.theatredes2rives.com /blackfilmmaker.html (1471 words)

	Wilco - Illinois Entertainer, May 2002
		Alas, he fell into a period of galloping evolution for the band, and the film was in danger of becoming obsolete before he even had the trailer done.
		Jones could be forgiven for throwing his hands up in the air, but he kept shooting.
		Now he says his writing is most often influenced by books, citing as an example the literary criticism and philosophy of PEN/Faulkner Award winner and Washington University professor William H. Gass.
	www.geocities.com /nutnhunee/entertainer.html (2257 words)

	News Los Angeles - Create Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jones joined Tool's roster at the end of last year and has since directed several commercial assignments, while also jumping headlong into his next feature film project, a documentary on champion motocross star James "Bubba" Stewart which is being produced by Cruise/Wagner Productions through Paramount Pictures.
		Jones' work to-date, including his debut feature "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," has piqued the interests of many, including Neal Tiles, the DIRECTV Executive Vice President of Marketing who led the project, and Scott Bantle, DIRECTV Senior Vice President of Creative Services.
		After we described what we were after and provided some script guidelines, Sam came up with the vignettes and captured them.
	www.createmagazine.com /news.cfm?IssueName=losangeles&NewsID=2716 (671 words)

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