An amazing talent gone way too soon, Janis Joplin is more than her boozy, brash public image. This bio docu has the personal background and the insights of those her knew, plus the Texas and San Francisco context in the Rock breakout of the late 1960s. Janis: Little Girl Blue DVD Filmrise / Mvd 2015 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 105 min. / Street Date May 6, 2016 / 19.95 Starring Janis Joplin, Cat Power (voice), Peter Albin, Melissa Etheridge, Clive Davis, Laura Joplin, Michael Joplin, D.A. Pennebaker, Kris Kristofferson, Country Joe McDonald, Dick Cavett.. Cinematography Francesco Carrozzini, Jenna Rosher Film Editors Mark Harrison, Maya Hawke, Billy McMillin, Garret Price, Brendan Walsh Produced by Amy J. Berg, Alex Gibney, Katherine LeBlond, Jeff Jampol Directed by Amy J. Berg
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Janis: Little Girl Blue is an entertaining and emotionally affecting bio-film about the noted singer and songwriter, whose rise to fame in the San Francisco scene of the...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Janis: Little Girl Blue is an entertaining and emotionally affecting bio-film about the noted singer and songwriter, whose rise to fame in the San Francisco scene of the...
- 4/30/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
J.D. Souther John David Souther Black Rose Home by Dawn (Omnivore) J.D. Souther's songs are better known as sung by other people, which is good for his bank account but puzzling if you've heard his fine LPs. I wouldn't be surprised if more people nowadays know of him from his acting on the TV series Nashville than from his career in music. If there's any justice, these three reissues will redress that imbalance.
After this Texan moved to L.A., he teamed with Glenn Frey in the band Longbranch/Pennywhistle (they kept co-writing songs after Frey founded the Eagles, notably "New Kid in Town"), lived upstairs from Jackson Browne, and dated Linda Ronstadt.
Browne told him to audition for David Geffen, who'd just started the Asylum label, and that led directly to 1972's John David Souther. Its original ten-song program, which kicks off with "The Fast One," one of...
After this Texan moved to L.A., he teamed with Glenn Frey in the band Longbranch/Pennywhistle (they kept co-writing songs after Frey founded the Eagles, notably "New Kid in Town"), lived upstairs from Jackson Browne, and dated Linda Ronstadt.
Browne told him to audition for David Geffen, who'd just started the Asylum label, and that led directly to 1972's John David Souther. Its original ten-song program, which kicks off with "The Fast One," one of...
- 2/12/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
A singer who, decades after her tragic passing, has been challenged by few singers in terms of sheer power, Janis Joplin did more a lot more than burn bright and fade away. Director Amy Berg ("West Of Memphis," "An Open Secret") paints a fascinating, layered portrait of the blues-rock icon in "Janis: Little Girl Blue," and today we have an exclusive clip from the documentary. Narrated by Cat Power and produced by Alex Gibney, 'Little Girl Blue' presents an intimate, insightful look at a complicated, driven, often beleaguered artist. Joplin’s own words tell much of the film’s story through a series of letters she wrote to her parents over the years, many of them made public in the documentary for the first time. The picture also features numerous interviews, as you'll see in the scene below, with a fellow musician recounting his first meeting with Joplin.
- 11/24/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
This fall marks the 45th anniversary of Janis Joplin's death from an overdose in a Hollywood hotel room. Since then, she's been the subject of books, reissues, a boxed set, an off-Broadway show, and a still-in-development biopic, possibly starring Amy Adams. Everyone from Kim Gordon to Pink has given Joplin props for paving the way as a woman in a male-dominated rock climate, and the singer's raw delivery continues to resonate. "Even when I was 10 or 12 years old and first heard her sing," recalls Chan Marshall, a.k.a.
- 11/17/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Janis Joplin's brother and sister, Laura and Michael, recounted a family trip to San Francisco during the Summer of Love to visit their older sibling, then on the precipice of rock and roll stardom, in a new clip from the documentary, Janis: Little Girl Blue.
Unlike most teenagers who made the pilgrimage to Haight-Ashbury in 1967, Michael and Laura Joplin were accompanied by their parents. Michael remembered Janis giving the entire family a tour of the city and then taking them to a show at the Avalon Ballroom.
"Big Brother...
Unlike most teenagers who made the pilgrimage to Haight-Ashbury in 1967, Michael and Laura Joplin were accompanied by their parents. Michael remembered Janis giving the entire family a tour of the city and then taking them to a show at the Avalon Ballroom.
"Big Brother...
- 11/12/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Among those in consideration for the 88th Academy Awards are Cartel Land, He Named Me Malala, Amy, Janie: Little Girl Blue, Sherpa, Where To Invade Next, Winter On Fire, Wolfpack, Meet The Patels and A Sinner In Mecca.Several of the submissions have not yet had their Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases.A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on January 14 2016 and the ceremony takes place on
Among those in consideration for the 88th Academy Awards are Cartel Land, He Named Me Malala, Amy, Janie: Little Girl Blue, Sherpa, Where To Invade Next, Winter On Fire, Wolfpack, Meet The Patels and A Sinner In Mecca.
Several of the submissions have not yet had their Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases.
A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.
The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on January 14 2016 and the ceremony takes place on...
Among those in consideration for the 88th Academy Awards are Cartel Land, He Named Me Malala, Amy, Janie: Little Girl Blue, Sherpa, Where To Invade Next, Winter On Fire, Wolfpack, Meet The Patels and A Sinner In Mecca.
Several of the submissions have not yet had their Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases.
A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.
The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on January 14 2016 and the ceremony takes place on...
- 10/23/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
★★★☆☆ This has been the year of the tragic music star documentary. Brett Morgen's Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) might have underwhelmed but Asif Kapadia's Amy (2015), which premièred at Cannes, was a powerful demonstration of how the form could reveal previously unsuspected depths of emotion behind the tabloid headlines. Tragic chanteuse Janis Joplin has many parallels with Amy Winehouse - they both made their names as white women singing like black women and both died at 27 - but Joplin has had a longer wait to stir Hollywood interest, with various proposed biopics stumbling at the development stage, including the most recent Amy Adams-led Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can.
Into the breach comes Amy Berg's Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015). In contrast to Kapadia's elegantly original technique, Berg tells her story in a largely conventional away through a series of talking head interviews of friends, family and band...
Into the breach comes Amy Berg's Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015). In contrast to Kapadia's elegantly original technique, Berg tells her story in a largely conventional away through a series of talking head interviews of friends, family and band...
- 9/12/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The incendiary soul singer Sharon Jones already had a few fans in the room when Barbara Koppel’s documentary “Miss Sharon Jones!” made its world premiere Friday night during the Toronto International Film Festival. By the end of the movie (which is seeking distribution), everybody in the place had a jones for Jones. The narrative arc of the film is the diminutive (“four foot 11 and a quarter”) singer’s more than year-long battle with cancer -- and her return to performing. But by lavishing huge helpings of Jones’ music and explosive performances on what is a very intimate portrait, the two-time-Oscar-winning Koppel keeps the doc from ever becoming maudlin, or predictable, or from even slowing down. There's certainly an Oscar-friendly trend afoot: Jessica Edwards’ Mavis Staples movie “Mavis” is out there, as is Liz Garbus’ “What Happened, Miss Simone?” and, of course, Asif Kapadia’s “Amy”; Amy Berg’s Janis Joplin...
- 9/12/2015
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
When fans get wistful about artists who die too young, it’s too easy to obsess over the tragedy of it all rather than to discuss why that death was such a loss in the first place — that unfulfilled promise of a life that ended too quickly, and that person’s great, never-created work of which the world was deprived. It’s the focus on the art and the artist, and not on her demise, that makes Amy Berg‘s documentary “Janis” so electrifying. (The “Little Girl Blue” subtitle, included on screen and in the press notes, but not in the festival catalog,...
- 9/5/2015
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Little girl Blue! Beyonce shared an adorable new photo with her daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, on Tuesday, Dec. 16. The Grammy-winning singer, 33, posted the sweet shot to her personal website, adding the image without accompanying text under her My Life posts. Photos: Blue Ivy's Hollywood Life In the photo, Beyonce stands in front of an art installation on a wooden wall, watching her daughter. The "7/11" singer grins as she tucks her ombre-highlighted wavy locks behind her ear. She looks gorgeous in a tan mixed-print coat with black and [...]...
- 12/17/2014
- Us Weekly
Polly Bergen: Actress on Richard Nixon's 'enemies list' (image: Polly Bergen publicity shot ca. late 1950s) (See previous article: "Polly Bergen Movies: First U.S. Woman President.") As discussed in the previous post, despite its deceptively progressive premise — the first United States woman president as a palpable reality — Kisses for My President, written by veteran Paramount screenwriter Claude Binyon (Search for Beauty, The Gilded Lily) and newcomer Robert G. Kane (whose sole other movie credit was the poorly received Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy Western Villain), was an unabashedly reactionary, "traditional family values" effort. Ironically, Polly Bergen, for her part, was a liberal-minded, politically active Democrat. At around the time Kisses for My President was released, Bergen, along with Gregory Peck, James Garner, and other Hollywood personalities, publicly came out against California's Proposition 14, a 1964 ballot initiative that would have nullified the Rumford Fair Housing Act, thus paving the way for...
- 9/22/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
eOne Picks Up ‘The Silent Mountain’, ‘The Night Crew’ Entertainment One Films U.S. has taken North American rights to romantic drama The Silent Mountain and U.S. rights to action-thriller The Night Crew. Both films will be released by eOne via all home entertainment platforms. Directed by Ernst Gossner and written by Clemens Aufderklamm, The Silent Mountain stars William Moseley, Claudia Cardinale and Fritz Karl in the story of a young Austrian soldier in World War I who fights his way through the Alps to rescue his Italian girlfriend and escape the impending explosion that will rock the mountain. The Night Crew, directed by Christian Sesma and written by Paul Sloan and Sesma, stars Luke Goss, Danny Trejo, Bokeem Woodbine, Chasty Ballesteros and Jason Mewes. It revolves around a group of hard-up bounty hunters who must survive the night in a desert motel against a horde of savage cartel killers.
- 5/2/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg, who received an Oscar nomination for “Deliver Us From Evil,” is in the works on a documentary focusing on the life of '60s rocker Janis Joplin. The documentary will be called “Janis: Little Girl Blue,” and will be produced by Berg along with Alex Gibney, who won an Oscar himself for “Taxi to the Dark Side.” Jeff Jampol and Billy McMillin, who worked with Berg on “West of Memphis,” will also produce. Also read: Amy Berg on Her Hollywood Sex Ring Documentary: ‘It's Bigger Than the One Case’ Content said Thursday that it will...
- 5/1/2014
- by Matthew Bramlett
- The Wrap
Content announced today that Disarming Films' Academy Award nominated Amy Berg ( Deliver Us From Evil , West of Memphis ) is directing and producing the upcoming Janis Joplin documentary, Janis: Little Girl Blue . Currently in production, Berg's documentary strips away Janis. rock .n. roll persona to reveal the gentle, trusting, innocent, but powerful woman behind the legend, in the quintessential story of the short, turbulent and epic existence that changed music forever. "I'm thrilled that I have the opportunity to tell Janis' story," says Berg. "She's an amazing rock icon who paved the way for generations of women to come. We have a great producing team coming together to make this film and I hope we make her proud." .I.m a great fan of Janis...
- 5/1/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Content to begin sales at Cannes on Amy Berg’s Janis Joplin documentary, produced by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney.
Content Film has secured worldwide sales to Amy Berg’s upcoming Janis Joplin documentary and will introducing the film to buyers at the Cannes market this month.
Berg, who has made feature documentaries including Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis, will direct and produce Janis: Little Girl Blue.
Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side and The Armstrong Lie, is producing under his Jigsaw Productions banner with Jeff Jampol from Jam, Inc. Billy McMillin is editing.
Currently in production, the documentary aims to strip away Joplin’s rock’n’roll persona to reveal the woman behind the legend through rare and never-before-seen footage.
The singer, who performed at Monterey Pop in 1967, Woodstock in 1969, and Festival Express in 1970, died aged 27. The doc will include interviews with her family, friends and rock...
Content Film has secured worldwide sales to Amy Berg’s upcoming Janis Joplin documentary and will introducing the film to buyers at the Cannes market this month.
Berg, who has made feature documentaries including Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis, will direct and produce Janis: Little Girl Blue.
Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director of Taxi to the Dark Side and The Armstrong Lie, is producing under his Jigsaw Productions banner with Jeff Jampol from Jam, Inc. Billy McMillin is editing.
Currently in production, the documentary aims to strip away Joplin’s rock’n’roll persona to reveal the woman behind the legend through rare and never-before-seen footage.
The singer, who performed at Monterey Pop in 1967, Woodstock in 1969, and Festival Express in 1970, died aged 27. The doc will include interviews with her family, friends and rock...
- 5/1/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Director Amy Berg (West of Memphis) is to tackle singing sensation Janis Joplin in documentary Janis: Little Girl Blue, which will be produced by Oscar winner and fellow documentarian Alex Gibney. The project, detailing the gentle, trusting, innocent, but powerful woman behind the legend, is billed as the quintessential story of her short, turbulent and epic existence. Content will hawk the documentary to buyers at the upcoming Marche du Film in Cannes. Photos: 50 Never-Before-Seen Portraits From Cannes Berg will direct and produce under her Disarming Films banner with Gibney producing via his Jigsaw Productions with Jeff Jampol (The Doors:
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- 5/1/2014
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Still from Your Name is Justine
The 18th European Union Film Festival hosted by the Entertainment Society of Goa will be held at Maquinez Palace from April 19-30,2013.
The festival will be inaugurated by Fredrika Ornbrant, Consul General of Sweden on 19th April 2013 at 5:00pm, Maquinez Palace- Audi I.
The theme of the 18th edition of the festival is ”Celebrating Women” and 24 films each from a different EU member state will be screened.
Some of the films being screened are “Altiplano”, a Belgium film by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, “Lora from Morning till Evening”, a Bulgarian film by Dimitar Kotsev, “Little Girl Blue”, a film from Czech Republic by Alice Nellis, “Applause” a film from Denmark by Martin Pieter Zandvliet, “After Five in the Forest Primeval”, a film from Germany by Hans-Christian Schmid, “Graveyard Keeper’s Daughter” a film from Estonia by Katrin Laur, “Your name is Justine...
The 18th European Union Film Festival hosted by the Entertainment Society of Goa will be held at Maquinez Palace from April 19-30,2013.
The festival will be inaugurated by Fredrika Ornbrant, Consul General of Sweden on 19th April 2013 at 5:00pm, Maquinez Palace- Audi I.
The theme of the 18th edition of the festival is ”Celebrating Women” and 24 films each from a different EU member state will be screened.
Some of the films being screened are “Altiplano”, a Belgium film by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, “Lora from Morning till Evening”, a Bulgarian film by Dimitar Kotsev, “Little Girl Blue”, a film from Czech Republic by Alice Nellis, “Applause” a film from Denmark by Martin Pieter Zandvliet, “After Five in the Forest Primeval”, a film from Germany by Hans-Christian Schmid, “Graveyard Keeper’s Daughter” a film from Estonia by Katrin Laur, “Your name is Justine...
- 4/19/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Sony Masterworks and Warner Home Video (Whv) are teaming up on a multi-tiered celebration of one of Hollywood’s most beloved stars: Doris Day. The celebration includes a new four-movie DVD package of memorable Day performance from Whv (in stores now); a brand new double CD set from Sony Masterworks (releasing April 3), with a collection of 31 songs curated by Day herself; and a five-night salute on TCM (April 2-6) This multi-pronged Doris Day tribute is timed to coincide with her birthday on April 3.
.I am so thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Sony Music on this collection of my recordings. I sang hundreds of songs, but because I was so busy singing, I rarely had the time to be involved in the compilation of the albums. So in this collection are some of my favorites, ones that I loved singing, and I hope you like them too,...
.I am so thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Sony Music on this collection of my recordings. I sang hundreds of songs, but because I was so busy singing, I rarely had the time to be involved in the compilation of the albums. So in this collection are some of my favorites, ones that I loved singing, and I hope you like them too,...
- 3/14/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
European Union Film Festival is being organized in Mumbai by Spanish Consulate in collaboration with Federation of Film Societies of India.
The festival will run from 9th May 2010 to 19th May 2010 at Fun Republic, Andheri (W) and Metro big Cinemas, Dhobi Talao. The admissions to the shows are free and on first come first serve basis.
Schedule For Metro Big Cinemas
Monday 10.05.2010
6.00 p.m.Roosters Breakfast (Slovenia/2007/124minutesDir – Marko Nabersnik)
8.00 p.m.Grave Decisions (Germany/2006/104 min/M Rosemuller)
Tuesday 11.05.2010
6.00 p.m. Luxemburg (Luxemburg/2007/90min/C Wagner)
8.00 p.m. Magdalene (Malta/2009/25 min/Dir – Rebecca Cremona)Christopher Columbus (Portugal/2007/75 min/M De Oliveira)
Wednesday 12.05.2010
6.00 p.m. -The Beheaded Rooster (Romania/2007/90 min/R Gabera)
8.00 p.m. -One Hundred Nails (Italy/2007/92 min/E Olmi)
Thursday13.05.2010
6.00 p.m. -The World is Big Salvation Lurks Around the Corner( Bulgaria/2008/105 min/Stephen Komandrev)
8.00 p.m. -The Age Stupid ( UK/2009/92 min/F Armstrong)
Friday14.5.2010
11.00 a.m. - ATale...
The festival will run from 9th May 2010 to 19th May 2010 at Fun Republic, Andheri (W) and Metro big Cinemas, Dhobi Talao. The admissions to the shows are free and on first come first serve basis.
Schedule For Metro Big Cinemas
Monday 10.05.2010
6.00 p.m.Roosters Breakfast (Slovenia/2007/124minutesDir – Marko Nabersnik)
8.00 p.m.Grave Decisions (Germany/2006/104 min/M Rosemuller)
Tuesday 11.05.2010
6.00 p.m. Luxemburg (Luxemburg/2007/90min/C Wagner)
8.00 p.m. Magdalene (Malta/2009/25 min/Dir – Rebecca Cremona)Christopher Columbus (Portugal/2007/75 min/M De Oliveira)
Wednesday 12.05.2010
6.00 p.m. -The Beheaded Rooster (Romania/2007/90 min/R Gabera)
8.00 p.m. -One Hundred Nails (Italy/2007/92 min/E Olmi)
Thursday13.05.2010
6.00 p.m. -The World is Big Salvation Lurks Around the Corner( Bulgaria/2008/105 min/Stephen Komandrev)
8.00 p.m. -The Age Stupid ( UK/2009/92 min/F Armstrong)
Friday14.5.2010
11.00 a.m. - ATale...
- 5/7/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Little Girl Blue: Zoe Saldana as Neytiri in James Cameron's Avatar This is how “meet cute” happens in James Cameron’s Avatar: At night in a jungle on the alien moon Pandora, Jake Sully, a cocky Marine played by Sam Worthington, stumbles into a pack of snapping, six-legged predators called viperwolves. This jarhead is about to become a viperpuppy chew toy when a lithe huntress named Neytiri (Star Trek’s Zoe Salanda) intervenes. Luckily for Jake, Neytiri is handy with a bow and arrow. She’s also smart, bilingual, spiritual, great with animals, and—for a 10-foot-tall cyan-colored woman with a tail—a babe. Cameron has stuffed Avatar with enough futuristic battle scenes and fantastical creatures to rally hordes of 14-year-old boys to the box office when the film opens Dec. 18. But, as always in a Cameron film, the most interesting roles in Avatar belong to the women.
- 12/15/2009
- Vanity Fair
In the new "Cold Case", a flight can also be deadly from its internal affair. Traveling through time in the '60s when female flight attendants were dubbed the glamor girls of the air, "Wings" will re-open the case of a stewardess' death after her remains are found in the rubble of a demolished Philadelphia hotel.
Rush and the team discover many hostile suspects who resented Ally Thurston who was trying to assemble a stewardess union. Golden Globe Award nominee Adrienne Barbeau, Emmy Award winner Mariette Hartley and Golden Globe Award nominee Lee Majors guest star as former stewardess colleagues and a pilot colleague of the victim who are each questioned by the team. Also in this episode, Raymond J. Barry debuts in his recurring role as Rush's father.
Also special in this episode that will air December 21, is the feature of Frank Sinatra's songs throughout the one-hour. The...
Rush and the team discover many hostile suspects who resented Ally Thurston who was trying to assemble a stewardess union. Golden Globe Award nominee Adrienne Barbeau, Emmy Award winner Mariette Hartley and Golden Globe Award nominee Lee Majors guest star as former stewardess colleagues and a pilot colleague of the victim who are each questioned by the team. Also in this episode, Raymond J. Barry debuts in his recurring role as Rush's father.
Also special in this episode that will air December 21, is the feature of Frank Sinatra's songs throughout the one-hour. The...
- 12/18/2008
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
COLOGNE, Germany -- An adolescent sex comedy, a period drama and a road movie set in China are among the nominees competing for best film at the 2004 Swiss Film Prize, Switzerland's top film award. Films that made the cut, according to a Swiss Film Council announcement Tuesday, include Mike Eschmann's Ready, Steady, Charlie! a comedy set in a Swiss army base that has been a local boxoffice hit; Ursula Meier's sports drama Strong Shoulders; Anna Luif's teen love story Little Girl Blue; Jean-Francois Amiguet's A Sud des Nuages (South of the Clouds), a road movie that follows a stubborn Swiss farmer who decides to travel to China by train; and Dominique de Rivaz's period piece Jagged Harmonies -- Bach vs. Frederich II, about a musical duel between Johann Sebastian Bach and Prussian King Frederich II.
- 12/3/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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