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WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE (Past Film)
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Release date : Jul 01, 2010
 
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Completed - Documentary - 88 minutes

Year of production : 2008

Director(s) : Tom DICILLO
Cast : Jim MORRISON, John DENSMORE, Ray MANZAREK, Robby KRIEGER

Producer(s) : Peter JANKOWSKI, John BEUG, Dick WOLF

Synopsis

Synopsis by Geoffrey Gilmore - Director, Sundance Film Festival:
“The Doors are probably my favorite band. Maybe that’s because they emerged at such a troubled point in American history and so captured the zeitgeist of that era, the late 1960's and early 70's. And yet, I don't mythologize them. But Tom DiCillo's feature documentary is such an inspired portrait of not only the band and its iconic singer, Jim Morrison, and also that time period and its contradictions, its optimism and fury, its co-optation and transformation, that it instantly carried me back to those days.
WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE is far from a nostalgic journey and much more than a biopic. Using only original footage shot between 1966 and 1971, DiCillo's film attempts to disentangle truth from myth, depict the artist and the alcoholic/addict that was Morrison, and showcase the other members of the band:
Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and Hon Densmore, who together channelled the group's magic. It manages to preserve the mystique but never ceases to unearth new revelations and augment our understanding of who the Doors were and what they became.
As well as an astute chronicle of the times, this is a deeply personal film for DiCillo. In the final analysis, WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE is a rare tribute to music, individuality, and a generation and resonates with an authenticity that speaks to anyone who wants to understand that era and what it means today."

Production

Country(ies) : USA

DENMARK Jul 01, 2010 MIRACLE FILM DI
FINLAND Jul 02, 2010 CINEMA MONDO
GERMANY Jul 01, 2010 STUDIOCANAL (BE
JAPAN KING RECORDS CO
MEXICO INTERIOR 13 CIN
NETHERLAND May 20, 2010 ENTERTAINMENT O
POLAND Aug 13, 2010 BEST FILM CO
SERBIA Jul 29, 2010 MCF MEGACOM FIL
SPAIN Dec 10, 2010 AVALON DISTRIBU

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