Better Than Something: Jay Reatard w/SLIP Hong Kong Cinema Filmed critical appreciation by author

Filmed critical appreciation by author and musician Stephen Thrower (2023)

who may or may not be Addie’s father

and Duke Johnson comes a darkly comedic and surreal stop-motion journey into the mind of a man whose dark night of the soul becomes a Kafkaesque make that Kaufmanesque nightmare

NEW Audio commentary by film historians Alain Silver & Jim Ursini

Better Than Something: Jay Reatard w/SLIP Hong Kong Cinema Filmed critical appreciation by authorFor Jimmy Lee Lindsay, known to his fans and detractors as Jay Reatard, life was a race against time. After growing up fast among Memphis crack addicts, he managed to blaze a path through the rough and tumble underground rock scene of the early aughts, releasing over 100 singles, EPs and full length records in fourteen years. Then on January 13, 2010, not yet 30, he died. With their feature documentary Better Than Something, filmmakers Alex Hammond