A chronological look at The Doors, focusing on lead singer, Jim Morrison (1943-1971), from the formation of the band in 1965, it's first gigs, and first album, to Morrison's death, after years of alcohol and drug use. Along the journey, we see archival footage of rehearsals, performances, and private moments including a Miami concert resulting in Morrison's arrest and trial for indecency. His love of the spotlight, his desire to be a poet, and his alcohol-fueled mood swings l... (Full plot summary below)
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A chronological look at The Doors, focusing on lead singer, Jim Morrison (1943-1971), from the formation of the band in 1965, it's first gigs, and first album, to Morrison's death, after years of alcohol and drug use. Along the journey, we see archival footage of rehearsals, performances, and private moments including a Miami concert resulting in Morrison's arrest and trial for indecency. His love of the spotlight, his desire to be a poet, and his alcohol-fueled mood swings lead to a back and forth between public and private desires, successes, and failures. The band's music plays throughout.
Leave your thoughts about When You're Strange.
| Cleveland Plain DealerClint O'ConnorNot many fresh insights, but riding along with The Doors is still a good time, whether you buy into the Jim Morrison mythology or not. |
| New York PressArmond WhiteIt's uselessly romantic and infuriatingly revisionist. Ironically, When You're Strange contains DiCillo's best filmmaking. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordThere are some ragged moments of fuzzy focus in the structure of When You're Strange but the copious list of original Doors songs are a treat for an old hippy like me. |
| CultureCatchBrandon JudellSelf-destruction and tight leather pants have seldom been depicted in such a loving manner. |
| CineVueGemma JamesReaffirms Jim Morrison as a rock legend, a poet in his own rite and a spiritual and sexual messiah, who opened the doors of perception for his generation and all those to follow. |
| New York PostKyle SmithA sometimes insightful, sometimes absurdly devotional but steadily engaging film. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigThe Doors lit rock 'n' roll fires for only 54 months, having formed after Morrison met Manzarek in 1965, when both were UCLA film students. We get a sense of them as bandmates as they hang around backstage or rehearse, garage-band-style. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversUnhappy with what Oliver Stone did to Jim Morrison and the Doors in his 1991 biopic? Here’s the doc for you. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaOffers a worshipful but insightful portrait of the group - centered, of course, on its charismatic front man. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanWhen You're Strange, a documentary history of the Doors directed by Tom DiCillo, is for people like me who can stumble onto the scrappiest Doors video on VH1 at 3 a.m. and sit there, mesmerized. |
