When it was announced that this year’s Tribeca Festival would open with the premiere of the HBO documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” I assumed, as a fan of Billy Joel and pop documentaries (which tend toward the light and hagiographic these days), that we were going to be in for a punchy, rousing, upbeat behind-the-music Tribeca appetizer. “And So It Goes” is surely an infectious celebration of Joel’s pop magicianship — his indelible qualities as a composer and singer and rock star. And the film worked all too well as an appetizer, since the festival only showed Part 1 of what is, in fact, a two-part HBO
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