A couple of hundred Memphians at Studio on the Square got a sneak preview last night of Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me, a documentary feature about the legendary Memphis band of the ’70s that helped relaunch the career of Alex Chilton and launch, a decade later, a whole generation of alternative-rock and post-punk bands.
A trailer for Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me:
The work-in-progress screening was sponsored by the Memphis chapter of the Recording Academy as part of an annual membership event and featured a post-screening question-and-answer session with New York-based filmmakers Drew DeNicola, Danielle McCarthy, Olivia Mori, along with the lone remaining original member of the band, Ardent Studios’ Jody Stephens.
Before the screening, DeNicola (the film’s director and editor) labeled it “a participatory event,” in which he wanted feedback from an audience that knows the band and its story well before heading back to the editing room to complete the film.
