This 1974 documentary contains some of Janis Joplin's best performances as well as some great spontaneous interviews. It has her incredible performance of Ball and Chain at Monterey ('67), some Cheap Thrills studio sessions ('68), Woodstock ('69), and Calgary ('70). She blows away the audience on Dick Cavett with Move Over and breaks down during the High School reunion interviews. Where she came from in Port Arthur, TX is such a contrast to who she was. And who she was was the incarnation of the Spirit of the 1960s counter-culture.
We get two great performances of Piece of My Heart, one of Tell Mama, Try, and Summertime both live and in studio.
Janis (The Way She Was) (A Film)
Director: Howard Alk
Format: VHS NTSC
Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MCA
Run Time: N/A
UPC: 096898008037
Production Date: 1974
Original Release Date: 1974-10-18
Rerelease Date: 1991-07-01
Synopsis:
Released within five years of Janis Joplin's tragic death in 1970, this documentary is more celebration than investigation. But, the film provides ample opportunity to read between the lines in various interviews, rehearsals and state performances and to understand something of the sadness that persisted beneath Joplin's brash exuberance.
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