• Better than anything in the theater right now

It’s no secret— I named the Jay Reatard retrospective Better Than Something the best music documentary of 2012. If you need some reasons why you should watch it, you can certainly read my review.

But if you’re a visual learner, here’s the trailer. It’s available to rent on Amazon VOD for a mere $3.99. I think you know what you have to do.

This article appears in Dec 20-26, 2012.

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Best Music Documentary Trailer

by Ethan Maffey, The Source - Bend, Oregon
December 19, 2012

<h1>Best Music Documentary Trailer</h1> <p class="byline">by Ethan Maffey, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />December 19, 2012</p> <p><div class="blogImageCenter"><img src="https://media2.fdncms.com/bend/imager/better-than-anything-in-the-theater-right-now/u/original/2203418/1355983313-better_than_something-_jay_reatard.jpg" alt="Better than anything in the theater right now" title="Better than anything in the theater right now" width="437" height="678" /></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.bendsource.com/bend/ImageArchives?by=2124650"></a></li> <li>Better than anything in the theater right now</li> </ul> </div> <p>It's no secret— I named the Jay Reatard retrospective <em>Better Than Something</em> the best music documentary of 2012. If you need some reasons why you should watch it, you can certainly read <a href="http://www.bendsource.com/bend/best-music-documentary-of-2012-better-than-something-filmbuff/Content?oid=2203220" target="_blank">my review</a>. </p> <p>But if you're a visual learner, here's the trailer. It's available to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Better-Than-Something-Jay-Reatard/dp/B009RI1TYM/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1355982966&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=better+than+something" target="_blank">rent on Amazon VOD</a> for a mere $3.99. I think you know what you have to do. </p> </p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> http://www.youtube.com/embed/DEojGEN9MFo </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/best-music-documentary-trailer-2203416/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=14212&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/best-music-documentary-trailer-2203416/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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