Joan Baez - I Am A Noise (film)

Subject: Joan Baez - I Am A Noise (film)
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 29 Feb 24 - 08:55 PM

2023 documentary
"At the end of a 60-year career, legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her large, history-making life, and the personal struggles she's kept private."

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhcV1gEat_c

ROTTEN TOMATOES reviews: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/joan_baez_i_am_a_noise/reviews?intcmp=rt-what-to-know_read-critics-reviews

GUARDIAN review:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/27/joan-baez-i-am-a-noise-review-documentary

NY Times review:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/movies/joan-baez-i-am-a-noise-review.html

ROGER EBERT site review by Glenn Kenny:
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/joan-baez-i-am-a-noise-movie-review-2023

AVAILABLE NOW on DVD and streaming sites.
MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT 11805   DVD 2024


Thomas.

Subject: RE: Joan Baez - I Am A Noise (film)
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Mar 24 - 06:55 PM

I didn't get to go,
but Baez herself was at a screening of the film
here in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

I understand she is publishing a book of poetry as well.

Subject: RE: Joan Baez - I Am A Noise (film)
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 06 Mar 24 - 09:53 PM

from the Joan Baez website:

When You See My Mother, Ask Her To Dance: Poems, by Joan Baez

An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection.

In this new publication, slated to be released in April 2024 by Godine, Joan shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces about her younger sister, singer-songwriter Mimi Fariña. Speaking to the people, places, and moments that have had the greatest impact on her art, this collection is an inspiring personal diary in the form of poetry.

While Joan has been writing poetry for decades, she’s never shared it publicly in printed form. Poems about her life, her family, about her passions for nature and art, have piled up in notebooks and on scraps of paper. Now, for the first time ever, her life is shared revealing pivotal life experiences that shaped an icon, offering a never-before-seen look into the reminiscences and musings of a great artist.

Like a late-night chat with someone you love, this collection connects fans to the real heart of who Joan is as a person, as a daughter and sister, and as an artist who has inspired millions.

Praise for When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems

“Joan’s ideas and musings ricochet from the profound and humanly factual to the observant and slyly humorous. Her words can be both poignantly executed and captivating in a colorful closeness that pin-points the chinks in our armor that mirror all facets of the world we inhabit. A national treasure she is indeed.”
—Bernie Taupin, author of Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me
“In these courageous and soul-searching poems, Joan Baez reveals the joy and sorrow of a life lived fully. Her deceptively simple and elegant verses resonate with profound insight into what it means to be alive, looking Janus-like from past to present. Beautiful.”
—Gabriel Byrne, author of Walking with Ghosts
“The artist’s urgency to account for ‘talents’ (see Matthew 25: 14-30), to complete the record and reckoning, informs this sumptuous debut collection of poems. To her work in song, on canvas, in advocacy for the human causes, this work in words claims its place among Ms. Baez’s free-range creations. Brava, is the thing I say, and write on!”
—Thomas Lynch, author of Bone Rosary: New & Selected Poems

also
Am I Pretty When I Fly?: An Album of Upside Down Drawings by Joan Baez. ?

Independent book publishing company, Godine, published a 120 page hardcover book of Joan's upside down drawings on April 4, 2023. Read all about it at Godine.


Thomas.

Subject: RE: Joan Baez - I Am A Noise (film)
From: Felipa
Date: 07 Mar 24 - 11:33 AM

as "I am Noise" hasn't been screened in a cinema near me, is it/will it be available on DVD, on line or ...?

Subject: RE: Joan Baez - I Am A Noise (film)
From: GUEST,KEBEROXU
Date: 07 Mar 24 - 06:51 PM

Felipa, in the US there is a DVD in NTSC format,
it turns up on the Amazon US website.

Subject: RE: Joan Baez - I Am A Noise (film)
From: DaveRo
Date: 08 Mar 24 - 02:24 AM

https://www.magpictures.com/joanbaez/

I doubt if you can stream it outside the US, though.

Subject: RE: Joan Baez - I Am A Noise (film)
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 12:23 PM

Saw the film a couple of months back in a cinema near me. Quite liked it - Joanie was one of the earliest artists that drew me into a lifelong love of folk music. However, I never realised they were such an unhappy family. The part about her father was particularly distressing to me because both she and Mimi seemed to believe in it unconditionally whereas to me it sounded as though it might equally well have been false memory syndrome. On the whole, not without its -how do you say - longeurs(?) but a very interesting and watchable film!

Subject: RE: Joan Baez - I Am A Noise (film)
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 14 Mar 24 - 08:21 PM

Yes, Susanne, I think it is spelled "longueurs" which is awkward for a native English speaker.

And thanks for the tip about the "particularly distressing" part.