The life and music of Janis Joplin.The life and music of Janis Joplin.The life and music of Janis Joplin.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Janis Joplin
- Self
- (archive footage)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- ConnectionsFeatures The Dick Cavett Show (1968)
Featured review
The best stage footage I've seen of one of the best live performers ever!
Amazing live performances captured on film are the reason to see to see this.
The interviews with Janis don't reveal much, and there's no real sense of her history.
Even the stage stuff is shot pretty straightforwardly, but, man-o-man could she sing!
One wonderful thing is that a lot of the numbers are uncut, allowed to go their full length, which, with Janis in concert, could easily be 8 minutes or more. The power, the emotion, the energy, the sexiness, the sweet sense of fun she brought to the stage could only be hinted at on her albums. For those reasons it's more than worth sitting through the slightly homogenized off-stage material.
The interviews with Janis don't reveal much, and there's no real sense of her history.
Even the stage stuff is shot pretty straightforwardly, but, man-o-man could she sing!
One wonderful thing is that a lot of the numbers are uncut, allowed to go their full length, which, with Janis in concert, could easily be 8 minutes or more. The power, the emotion, the energy, the sexiness, the sweet sense of fun she brought to the stage could only be hinted at on her albums. For those reasons it's more than worth sitting through the slightly homogenized off-stage material.
helpful•70
- runamokprods
- Jun 14, 2010
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Janis, the Way She Was - A Film
- Filming locations
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $396,020
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content