What is Janis / Petulia about?

Name: Janis / Petulia
Genre: Documentary,Drama

JANIS, 1974, Universal, 96 min. Arguably the greatest female rock singer of her generation, Texas-born Janis Joplin invested her records and concert performances with a ferocious, heartbreaking intensity, before her tragic death from a drug overdose in 1970. Director Howard Alk’s excellent portrait of Joplin (made with her family’s cooperation) features volcanic concert footage of her from 1966 - 1970, performing "Ball And Chain," "Piece Of My Heart," "Tell Mama" and other classics. PETULIA, 1968, Warner Bros., 105 min. Dir. Richard Lester. Truly one of the great overlooked films of the late 1960’s, PETULIA stars George C. Scott as a middle-aged physician who finds himself drawn into the mad, idealistic and desperately sad whirlwind life of unhappily married Julie Christie at the height of San Francisco’s Summer of Love. PETULIA captures both the sunshine optimism of the '60s and the melancholy afterglow soon to come when the Summer of Love faded away…

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What is Janis / Petulia about?: JANIS, 1974, Universal, 96 min. Arguably the greatest female rock singer of her generation, Texas-born Janis Joplin invested her records and concert performances with a ferocious, heartbreaking intensity, before her tragic death from a drug overdose in 1970. Director Howard Alk’s excellent portrait of Joplin (made with her family’s cooperation) features volcanic concert footage of her from 1966 - 1970, performing "Ball And Chain," "Piece Of My Heart," "Tell Mama" and other classics.

PETULIA, 1968, Warner Bros., 105 min. Dir. Richard Lester. Truly one of the great overlooked films of the late 1960’s, PETULIA stars George C. Scott as a middle-aged physician who finds himself drawn into the mad, idealistic and desperately sad whirlwind life of unhappily married Julie Christie at the height of San Francisco’s Summer of Love. PETULIA captures both the sunshine optimism of the '60s and the melancholy afterglow soon to come when the Summer of Love faded away…