Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)

Film screening in English with Hungarian subtitles.

After the fresh Anglo-Saxon music films in spring, the autumn 2025 Rockfilmclub autumn line-up includes three feature-length documentaries, some of them older. In October, the journey to stardom of Janis Joplin, the hippies' number one feminine symbol, will be explored through contemporary footage, documents and the recollections of those who knew her. In November, the Oscar-nominated two-and-a-half-hour film Background Music to a Coup d'état takes us through the 1960s independence of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Cold War and post-colonial Africa, the duplicity of Western European politics and the best jazz recordings of the era. And in December, one of the greatest soul divas of all time takes place in January 1972 at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, a predominantly black neighborhood, with Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir accompanying Aretha Franklin (directed by Sydney Pollack).