Joan Baez I Am A Noise

Name: Joan Baez I Am A Noise
Genre: Biography, Music, Documentary
Released: October 6, 2023
Duration: 113 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Bill Clinton, Bob Dylan, David Harris, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joan Baez

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: October 6, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Bill Clinton, Bob Dylan, David Harris, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joan Baez, Joan Baez Sr., Martin Luther King, Michael Moore, Mimi Fariña, Richard Farina

Summary: Facing the end of a 60-year musical 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 reveals, for the first time, personal struggles she’s kept private, until now.

Director: Karen O'Connor and Maeve O'Boyle and Miri Navasky

Genre(s): Biography, Music, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 113 min

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Ann Hornaday

Oct 11, 2023

Throughout the film, it’s Baez who holds the audience spellbound, not just in live performances that remained transfixing from the late 1950s to the 2010s, but in her very being. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 3, 2023

It’s a somewhat sprawling and almost ungainly film, years in the making, very revealing and yet notably incomplete. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Oct 5, 2023

This visual memoir paints a picture of a woman who, while leading a rich professional life, was plagued by personal demons. Read full review

Jocelyn Noveck

Oct 3, 2023

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: anxiety, depression, loneliness and, late in life, troubling repressed memories about her own father. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Oct 6, 2023

I Am a Noise, beginning with Baez actually consulting a voice coach as she prepares for what will be a “farewell tour” (it was undertaken in 2019 before COVID hit the world), is a coherent, cohesive, and sometimes jarringly frank portrait. Read full review

Steve Davis

Jan 2, 2024

Sure, it’s not terribly satisfying resolutionwise because you’re still left with as many questions as answers in the end. But that’s the thing about looking back on your life at a relatively late age. So many gaps left unfilled. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Oct 10, 2023

The bottom line on Joan Baez I Am a Noise is that if you absolutely love Baez and her work, you will find nothing here to challenge your preconceptions and will probably learn some things you didn’t know. But if you’re merely Baez-curious, this documentary will not satisfy and might even make you less curious. Read full review

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