Another Music Documentary—Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
I’d been seeing ads for and reviews of various events over the last several weeks without fully registering that those events were intended to promote a film. 
Now that I’ve got it all sorted out, here’s the news. Yet another, apparently acclaimed documentary is currently being screened at various locations in the US and abroad. As the title indicates, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me focuses on the 1970s band Big Star, whose songs and recordings, while profound in and of themselves, have exerted a powerful influence over a number of bands in the 1980s and since—including REM, the dB’s and the Bangles (who covered Alex Chilton’s “September Gurls” on their 1986 album Different Light). I’ve yet to see the film, but the reviews look promising, and hopefully the film will shed light in one of the neglected corners of 1970s rock in a fashion similar to Margaret Brown’s *Be Here to Love Me: Townes Van Zandt. Big Star takes its subtitle from the lyrics of “Big Black Car,” one of my favorite songs by the group. You can hear that song and read my brief tribute to Alex Chilton, written shortly after his death, here. For more information on the documentary, as usual, click through…
UPDATE, 28 March 2020: I was just notified this morning (thanks to Finn at Streaming Movies Right) that the original site to which this page linked is now an online poker operation. I have updated the link above to take readers to the film’s distribution page.