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Riding that train, high on cocaine
Holiday Articulate
Directed by Bob Smeaton
ThinkFilm
Opens July 30
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The magical mystery tour stopped only for a series of riotous concerts?characterized by audience attempts to "liberate" the entertainment?or to replenish the booze supply. "Most of us were new to drinking at that time," Dead guitarist
Bob Weir
notes in one of the split-screen survivor interviews that annotate the original footage. Given the heavy concentration of old folkies, the on-train jams are fascinating?particularly the zonked "No More Cane on the Brazos," led by a howling
Rick Danko
and kept on track by
Jerry Garcia
's smiling Buddha. Given the financial disaster that the festival would be,
Buddy Guy
's cool, yelping version of "Money" is wonderfully appropriate. Nevertheless, one waits for Joplin, who, midway through the movie and two months from eternity, uncorks a performance of "Cry Baby" for the ages.
Starting with the scream on which a more conservative singer would climax, and then pushing herself to the far side of coherence, our Janis delivers an astonishingly wrenching and immediate performance. The most vivid evidence of her presence ever committed to film, it should re-ignite the age-old question: Was this doomed
Port Arthur
flower child the psychedelic
Judy Garland
or, pace
Dusty Springfield
, the greatest white soul-singer of all time?