Date

Oct 20 - 26 2023
Expired!

JOAN BAEZ I AM A NOISE

Legendary singer and activist Joan Baez takes an honest look back and a deep look inward as she tries to make sense of her history-making life.

SYNOPSIS

Joan Baez I Am A Noise is an unusually intimate psychological portrait of legendary folk singer and activist Joan Baez. Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this immersive documentary shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Throughout the film, Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and off stage – from her lifelong emotional struggles to her civil rights work with MLK and a heartbreaking romance with a young Bob Dylan. A searingly honest look at a living legend, this film is a compelling and deeply personal exploration of an iconic artist who has never told the full truth of her life, as she experienced it, until now.

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Director

Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky & Maeve O’Boyle

WITH

Joan Baez, Mimi Farina, Bob Dylan, David Harris

Run Time

1 hour, 53 minutes

Released

October 6, 2023

Distributed by

Magnolia Pictures

HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE

Assisted Listening
Closed Captioning

Country

United States

SUBTITLES

None

NOT RATED

Many of the films shown at The Ross are not rated due to the prohibitive cost of acquiring a rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. Consequently, as many of these films contain graphic content, viewer discretion is advised.

SHOWINGS

OCT 20 | FRI

4:50 p.m.

OCT 21 | SAT

3:00, 8:50 p.m.

OCT 22 | SUN

4:50, 7:15 p.m.

OCT 23 | MON

7:15 p.m.

OCT 24 | TUE

4:50 p.m.

OCT 25 | WED

7:15 p.m.

OCT 26 | THU

4:50 p.m.
REVIEWS

The celebrated folk singer and activist was singing about civil rights, of course. But what we learn in the thoughtful, thorough and sometimes harrowingly intimate Joan Baez: I Am a Noise is that Baez was also seeking to overcome much on a personal scale.”

Jocelyn Noveck

Associated Press

Anyone with an interest in the key artists of the counterculture movement will find much to appreciate here”

David Rooney

Hollywood Reporter

A coherent, cohesive, and sometimes jarringly frank portrait.”

Glenn Kenny

RogerEbert.com

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