Joan Baez

2023 - 2 - 17

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In Berlin Doc 'I Am a Noise' Joan Baez Reveals Abuse by Her Father (Variety)

Joan Baez talks doc 'I Am a Noise' in which she takes a candid look at her life, revealing abuse by her father, drug use, and heartbreak by Bob Dylan.

And I put on his music, and all of that resentment, all of that bullshit, just drained away, it drained away. And I wrote him a letter and told him so. I was thinking about that the other day, because I have my lovely big guitar hanging on the wall. So that meant to me that I was serious. That I needed for the concerts. But I think it was pretty significant, and I think complicated emotionally, as well. And it was a portrait of him when he was very young. But I think – I won’t speak for you, Joan – but I think, because you knew we would make it a complicated story, it made it feel a little more comfortable for you. But the rest just evolved due to the strength of the material, and the amazing discoveries we made along the way. Baez – I just thought I’d shut my eyes and plug my nose and jump. The day Joan took us to her to the storage unit for the first time – where she’d never been – and opened it and we saw the material. We were sort of rolling along, we didn’t know what was going to happen in my life: whether I was going to quit, or whether I was going to keep going, etc.

Berlin: Joan Baez on Meeting Bob Dylan (Exclusive Trailer) (Hollywood Reporter)

In the new tell-all documentary 'Joan Baez: I Am a Noise,' the legendary folk singer reveals the personal trauma and childhood abuse that darkened her ...

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"Joan Baez: I Am a Noise" - Berlinale 2023 Film Review (The Moveable Fest)

Karen O'Connor, Maeve O'Boyle and Miri Navasky's engaging profile of the legendary folk artist doubles as a savvy look at processing trauma.

The film’s title may be inspired by a note Baez made to herself at 13, writing in her journal “I’m not a saint, I am a noise,” but it takes on a poignant second meaning as you witness her gradually clearing the cacophony that clutters her mind to find an inner peace, yielding the kind of triumph that’s generally felt with the energy of an audience of thousands at an arena but is seen here in the solitude of being comfortably alone with one’s thoughts. She was also hyper-aware of how being the center of attention would warp her perspective and some of those around her, disheartened to see how greater notoriety led to Dylan distance himself from most people, including her, as well as the divide it placed between her and Mimi, a talented musician in her own right who was warned from the start of her career she’d be overshadowed by her sister. That resistance to definitive statements — and self-awareness — clearly has taken decades to come by for Baez, but it’s why “I Am a Noise” ends up as one of the few celebrity-driven biopics to clear a bar that so many others don’t, answering the question of whether the life of the artist would be interesting apart from dutifully recounting the career they’ve had with a resounding yes.

Joan Baez opens up about new documentary 'Joan Baez: I Am a ... (X101 Always Classic Local News)

The new Joan Baez documentary Joan Baez: I Am a Noise premieres Friday at the Berlin Film Festival, and the legendary folk singer tells Variety she looks at ...

“I hung it up on the wall, and I’ve sung under duress a few times, but not really, I just went into other things. Whatever resentment I might have had hanging on there [inside myself] for all those years” is in the film. “It’s probably what would’ve happened if I had written a memoir at this point in my life.”

Joan Baez documentary plumbs dark corners of her life, spotlights ... (News Room Odisha)

Berline: In “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise”, which premiered on Friday at the Berlin Film Festival, the folk icon with a supple soprano voice and a long history ...