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Also showing:
WEDNESDAY, OCT 25 | 1:45 PM | FH
Even if you’re a fan of Joan Baez and have been following her career for decades, there are plenty of surprises in the new doc from directors Miri Navasky, Karen O’Connor and Maeve O’Boyle. An unusually intimate entry into the popular-song-biopic sweepstakes, I Am a Noise deftly navigates the professional and personal, covering her career from folk-goddess to activist to Bob Dylan collaborator and, finally, as an icon on her farewell tour. There’s more than enough musical history and archival footage to make a case for Baez as a legend. But it’s the personal stuff that startles – she digs deep on her family, particularly her (and her sister Mimi’s) innate darkness and unwillingness to be happy. The final third of the film goes way beyond what we expect from the average rock-star bio, stunning us (and Baez) with her unearthed family legacy. ~SM