Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

2019. 95 m. Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman. Greenwich Entertainment. US. English. Rated NR.

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Since bursting onto the music scene in 1967, Linda Ronstadt has been an icon. In this touching documentary from award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Times of Harvey Milk, The Celluloid Closet), Ronstadt is our guide through her early years of singing Mexican canciones with her family, her folk days with the Stone Poneys, and her reign as the “rock queen” of the ’70s and early ’80s. She was a pioneer for women in the male-dominated music industry and an advocate for human rights. Ultimately, her incredible, singular voice was lost to Parkinson’s disease, but her music and influence remain as timeless as ever. With moving performance footage and appearances by collaborators including Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, and Jackson Browne, the film celebrates an artist whose desire to share the music she loved made generations of fans fall in love with her.

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Rob Epstein’s groundbreaking films include The Times of Harvey Milk (Academy Award for Best Documentary, 1984), The Aids Show, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (Academy Award for Best Documentary, 1990), Where Are We? Our Trip Through America, The Celluloid Closet (Emmy Award, 1995), Paragraph 175 (Directing Award, Sundance Film Festival, 2000), and End Game (Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short, 2019); and narrative features Howl, starring James Franco and Jon Hamm, and Lovelace, starring Amanda Seyfried and Peter Sarsgaard. He made Oscar history in 1984 as the first openly gay director to accept the award for any film.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jeffrey Friedman has been producing and directing films with Rob Epstein through their production company Telling Pictures since 1987. Directing credits include documentaries End Game (Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Short, 2019), Paragraph 175 (Sundance Directing Award, 2000), And The Oscar Goes To… (2014), The Celluloid Closet (Emmy Award, 1995), Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (Academy Award for Best Documentary, 1989), and narratives Howl and Lovelace. He received his film training in the New York editing rooms of films including Raging Bull (Academy Award for Editing, 1980), Marjoe, and The Exorcist.