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Janis: Little Girl Blue
Directed by
Amy J. Berg
TV-MA
2015
1h 46m
Documentary
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Biography
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and more
7.4
94%
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Musician Cat Power narrates this documentary on Janis Joplin's evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.
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Cast of Janis: Little Girl Blue
Janis Joplin
Herself (archive footage)
Cat Power
Narrator (voice)
D. A. Pennebaker
Himself
Dick Cavett
Himself
Peter Albin
Himself
Karleen Bennett
Herself - Janis Joplin's childhood friend
Laura Joplin
Herself - Janis Joplin's sister
Michael Joplin
Himself - Janis Joplin's brother
Amy J. Berg
Director / Writer / Producer
Katherine LeBlond
Producer
Alex Gibney
Producer
Jeff Jampol
Producer
Janis: Little Girl Blue Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Robert Lloyd
Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg (West of Memphis, Prophet's Prey) has made an elegant, affectionate and, in many ways, remarkably cheerful film about Janis Joplin.
Yahoo! TV
Ken Tucker
Little Girl Blue is more like a time capsule of a bygone era than the showcase for an enduringly vital artist.
Newsday
Verne Gay
Fine, judicious, generous portrait of a lady who sang the blues.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Berg tells the story of Janis Joplin with sympathetic straightforwardness in "Janis: Little Girl Blue," and that's fine: Joplin herself provides all the excess.
Los Angeles Times
Lorraine Ali
From this pastiche Joplin emerges as we've never seen her before, articulate, ambitious, torn between her wild self and her desperate need for stability.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Smoothly told, with the sweetly vulnerable Joplin letters adding an additional layer of pathos, it's a sad story that leaves us wondering what might have been.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
Though sluggish in the middle section, the film is nonetheless effective in illustrating how a star as incendiary as Joplin could dim and ultimately die in the spotlight.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
The director interviewed just about everyone relevant to Joplin's life story who is still alive. She uses archival footage and Joplin's letters - read by singer-songwriter Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power - to add voices from beyond the grave.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
This is a meticulously researched film that makes good use of its incredible access.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
Sweet and wild and vividly alive, she takes a little piece of your heart when she goes.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
The film sustains a double vision of both the child and the hard-living folk-blues mama Joplin became.
NPR
Ella Taylor
There's plenty of wonderfully wild onstage footage and charming, behind-the-scenes goofing around here, and the movie is a fan's appreciation of how much exuberant fun Joplin could be on and offstage, of her ferocious work ethic and mischievous spirit.
AV Club
Noel Murray
For anyone who just wants "the Janis Joplin story," told from start to finish-with plenty of examples of why anyone should care about the untimely death of a substance-abuser-Little Girl Blue is the way to go.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
The movie doesn't rise above its music-doc formula of photo, clip, talking head. But for fans - like me - it's a heartfelt, engrossing tribute.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
The movie won't acknowledge that Joplin's voice or image were her own, and in the end it even gives her demons to the men.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
It grounds us so effectively in Joplin's emotional realm as to partially rekindle the social transcendence that her voice must have represented for its owner.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Berg does paper illuminating personal observations throughout, before landing a satisfying emotional punch at the end.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
It's the focus on the art and the artist, and not on her demise, that makes Amy Berg's documentary Janis so electrifying.
IndieWire
Kate Erbland
The film is tasked with cramming an entire life into the minimum of time, and it often comes up short when it comes to canny explorations and richer examinations of both Joplin's individual life and her greater legacy.
Variety
Guy Lodge
It's the satisfying feature-length overview that Joplin's brief, fiercely brilliant career has long merited.
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