The Doors: When You're Strange
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Doors: When You're Strange |
| Original title | When you're strange |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tom DiCillo |
| script | Tom DiCillo |
| production | John Beug, Jeff Jampol, Peter Jankowski |
| music |
The Doors , Tom DiCillo |
| camera | Paul Ferrara |
| cut | Micky Blythe, Kevin Krasny |
| occupation | |
The Doors: When You're Strange is a 2009 American theatrical documentary about the rock group The Doors . Directed by the filmmaker Tom DiCillo . The full-length documentary traces the development of the band from the founding to the death of the singer Jim Morrison in predominantly chronological order.
The film is based exclusively on contemporary recordings, which are mostly edited in quick succession, including a college marketing film from Florida State University with the young Jim Morrison (1962), a film from his UCLA student days (1965), television appearances by the Doors of Ed Sullivan Show (1967) to the PBS show Critique (1969), studio recordings in Los Angeles and excerpts from Paul Ferrara's concert film A Feast of Friends (1969). In between there are sequences cut from Morrison's unfinished film project HWY: An American Pastoral (1969), which show the singer in a Shelby Mustang as a vagabond highway killer in the Mojave Desert , as well as political and historical recordings from the late 1960s.
The documentary was shown for the first time on January 17, 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival in the winter sports resort of Park City and subsequently at ten other American and European film festivals. As at the Sundance Film Festival critique of monotonous voice off DiCillo had come, the director to recast the narrative track US actor won Johnny Depp . For the soundtrack, it was also used to record recitations of Morrison's poems. The revised film was first shown on June 21, 2009 at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was released on April 9, 2010 in US theaters.
The still living Doors members, who criticized US director Oliver Stone's portrayal of their band in the 1991 feature film The Doors because of numerous artistic freedoms and the portrayal of the singer as a sociopath out of control , expressed themselves very benevolently about DiCillo's documentary ( "The true story of the Doors").
On July 1, 2010, DiCillo's work was released in German cinemas under the title The Doors: When You're Strange . The feuilletons of the German-language newspapers discussed the “sensational documentary” mostly positively. The reviewer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung clearly differentiated DiCillo's approach from that of his predecessor: “When recording legendary songs, from ' Light my Fire ' to 'People are Strange', you are so close that Oliver Stone's 1991 feature film version is quite exalted , ridiculous and artificial. "
The film was awarded a Grammy in February 2011 in Los Angeles in the category "Best Long Music Video".
DVD / Blu-ray Disc
- The Doors: When You're Strange . Kinowelt 2010 (with additional interviews with father George S. Morrison and sister Anne Morrison-Chewning).
Web links
- The Doors: When You're Strange in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Groß: Waste your virtue. "When you're strange" - Tom DiCillo's sensational documentary shows the Doors as critics of American reason , in: Die Zeit, No. 27, July 1, 2010, p. 52
- ↑ Anke Sternborg: Young God at the gas pump. A time travel trip: The film "The Doors - When you're strange" by Tom DiCillo , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 150, July 3, 2010, p. 13