The Festival Express was a trip that forever marked and transformed lives. Festival Express, a documentary film about that wild ride, premieres this week at the Toronto International Film Festival.

"Festival Express" brings to light long-dormant footage from a summer 1970 whistle-stop railway tour across Canada by the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Band, Buddy Guy and other less familiar ...

“In the late 1980s, the town of Wilkes-Barre approached Joe with the idea of holding a film festival to celebrate the two brothers,” Davis wrote, referring to the titular, filmmaking, and ...

Festival Express is the documentary of a legendary rock 'n' roll revue that crossed Canada during the summer of '70. Although the Summer of Love was more or less dead by the end of 1969, many of ...

The documentary Festival Express captures a 1970 train tour across Canada with Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and other music icons. Director Bob Smeaton talks to NPR's Liane Hansen.

But the sociological angle of Festival Express is a narrow one—perhaps too narrow—and doesn't overwhelm the film's real selling point, which is some of the best-looking and best-sounding ...

The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Thursday, with Hollywood stars Russell Crowe, Sydney Sweeney and Daniel ...