Joni Mitchell - Painting with Words and Music
by Joan Tosoni
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Actor: Brian Blade, Greg Leisz, Joni Mitchell, Mark IshamDirector: Joan Tosoni
Brand: Eagle Rock Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Extra tracks, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
Published: 2004
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Product features:
- Featuring: Brian Blade, Mark Isham, Greg Leisz, Joni Mitchell.
- Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, Extra tracks, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC.
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1).
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
- Run Time: 99 minutes.
Movie Reviews of Joni Mitchell - Painting with Words and Music
Movie Review: Magnificent beyond words
Summary: 5 Stars
I use the word "genius" very sparingly, but it certainly applies to Joni Mitchell. In my book, Joni is one of the greatest musical artists of the past century, male or female, in any genre. In fact, she defies genre because her music is a remarkably creative and unique fusion of many elements. Past eras had their Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. We have our Joni Mitchell, and we shouldn't take that fortunate fact for granted.
This particular concert takes place in the cozy environment of a small round theater appointed with comfortable couches and soothing lighting. As always, Joni's performance is sublime, with vocals that go straight to your soul, and she's a fabulous guitarist to boot. Her set selection covers the spectrum of her career, and she prefaces many of the songs with comments which add nicely to their context. As one would expect, her supporting band is top notch, and I hope they appreciate how fortunate they are to be able to work with her.
Personally, Joni's art moves me deeply, to the extent that I've been importantly changed as a person. I therefore value any opportunity to experience her performances, including this wonderful concert DVD. I've watched it several times over the past decade, and each time I've gotten something more out of it - a mark of great art.
50 stars.
Summary of Joni Mitchell - Painting with Words and Music
Joni Mitchell, the Queen of folk/rock, performs for an intimate audience on the Warner Brothers lot in Los Angeles. This concert is classic Joni Mitchell, and her repertoire here covers the complete arc of her career. With a stage backdrop of her own paintings, this program gives a unique insight into the talents and life of Joni Mitchell. / Track Listing: 1. Tiger Bones2. Big Yellow Taxi
3. Just Like This Train
4. Night Ride Home
5. Crazy Cries Of Love
6. Harry's House
7. Black Crow
8. Amelia
9. Hejira
10. Sex Kills
11. The Magdalene Laundries
12. Moon At The Window
13. Face Lift
14. Why Do Fools Fall In Love?
15. Trouble Man
16. Nothing Can Be Done
17. Song For Sharon
18. Woodstock
19. Dreamland
After more than a decade of de facto exile from the mainstream, Joni Mitchell has regained much of her media profile, if not her commercial impact, thanks to deserved if belated accolades from critics and music business peers. Recent Grammy Awards and a special Billboard citation epitomize the ironies of Mitchell's '80s obscurity: Because she reached her highest profile with the broad success in 1974 of Court and Spark, which remains Mitchell's lushest, most accessible album, the Canadian musician and painter has found herself comparatively ignored in later years simply because her work ventured into more eclectic amalgams of her already diverse influences. Yet in her forays into world music, jazz, and pop collage, Mitchell has remained a prescient and influential artist.
This 1998 concert special sheds welcome light on the work from that post-Spark quarter century, its 22 songs dominated by the confessional works that have remained Mitchell's strong suit. Early favorites like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Just Like This Train" retain their charm, but it's Mitchell's more mature pieces such as "Amelia" (from Hejira) and "Sex Kills" (from Turbulent Indigo) that convey the depth and acuity of her work. A superb band--including Brian Blade, Mark Isham, Larry Klein, and Greg Leisz--provides a sinewy, sympathetic framework well-suited to the palette of jazz, folk, and pop colors that Mitchell daubs on her songs. Adding further intimacy to the performance is a circular stage design, a small audience, and a welcome lack of "big" production effects; instead, Mitchell indulges her second career as a painter through a pre-show stroll around a gallery of her visual works.
Mitchell's frail health in the late '90s, as well as a lifetime of cigarettes, has taken a toll on her voice, which has lost much of its upper register. Yet there's also an added richness to her lower range befitting this sharp-eyed survivor's art. Old fans will also recognize the flurries of girlish laughter in between-songs patter, while savoring how Mitchell's powers as a writer and player (especially on a new, striking electric guitar) have matured as well. --Sam Sutherland
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